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Invention of the Cotton Gin
U.s- Born inventor Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. It was invented for speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. It dramatically reduced time to get the cotton fiber.
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The Liberator is Published
Weekly newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison in Boston, Massachusetts. At 13 years old, he began his newspaper career with the Newburyport Herald.
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Missouri Compromise
Tensions were risen between pro-slavery & anti-slavery factions within the U.S congress and across the country. Granting Missouri's request but also admitting Maine as a free state.
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Underground Railroad
It was a network of people, many African American, offering shelter and aid to escaped slaves. The underground railroad operated anywhere from the late 18th century to the civil war. The railroad was formed in the late 1700's and reached its height between 1850 and 1860.
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
A black american slave led the only effective, sustained salve rebellion (Nathanial Turner). It caused a new wave of oppressive legislation prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of slaves and stiffened proslavery, antiabolitionist convictions that was until the american civil war. -
Tariff of 1828 & Nullification Crisis
The nullification crisis was a confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government in 1832-33. They wanted to declare null and void within the state of the federal tariffs of the 1828 and 1832.
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Wilmot Proviso
It was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican war (1846-48). Fearing the addition of pro-slavery territory, Pennsylvania Congressman David Wilmot proposed his amendment to the bill.
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Compromise of 1850
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Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel. The novel sold over 300,000 copies within three months. Even, President Abraham Lincoln met Stowe in 1862.
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Bleeding Kansas
It was a period of violence during the settling of the Kansas Territory. In 1854, the act was overturned the Missouri Compromise's use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory. John Brown led anti-slavery fighters in Kansas before his famed raid on Harpers Ferry. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It was allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. It was to served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north.
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Dred Scott Decision
Dred scott was a slave who had resided in a free state and territory. He was entitled to his freedom, which they were never to be citizens of the united states. -
John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery. -
Secession of the Southern States
Based on slavery, was threatened by the election of President Abraham Lincoln, the seven states of the Deep South( Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas) seceded from the union during the following months. -
Election of 1860
American Presidential election held november 6th, 1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and a constitutional Union Candidate John Bell. -
Fort Sumter is fired upon
The talks failed to resolve tensions, forcing Beauregard to action. The american civil war begins when confederates fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor in South Carolina.
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Douglas and Lincoln took their arguments directly to the people. They fought for the volatility of the slavery issue, and the instability of the party system combined to give the debates a special importance.
