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North West Ordinance
The North West Ordinance prohibited slavery in the North West Territory. It also added new free states such as Ohio were added to the United States of America. -
Slave Trade Compromise
The north attempted to stop slavery in the South. They also had an agreement during the Constitutional Convee exportntion of 1787 protecting the inerests slave holders by forbidding Congress the power to tax the export of goods from any state. For 20 years the power to act on slave trade happened. -
Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin. The more cotton produced the more slaves. The South said they needed more slaves so they could collect more cotton, but the, North argued the work should be done in factories instead of fields. -
Annexation of Texas
Texas became a "Lone Star Republic". It tried to acheive statehood. Texas denied alot of slave states. Texas is in the south so its slaved. This increased the number of slave states. People got really mad because they wouldn't have slaves in Texas. After this there was a Mexican War, which lead to more. It also opened more land for slavery. -
"King Cotton" Argument
Cotton is the number one industry in the South. THe South and United States depend on cotton industry for economic survival. Emancipation of slaves would severly hurt the United States economy and weaken Militray. -
Fugitive Slave Act
This increased tension between the North and south. African-Americans were getting captured adn sold in the SOuth. Slaves in the South can not become free by escaping into the North. -
Brooks vs. Sumner
Preston Brooks was a democratic congressman from South Carolina. He beat and severly injured Senate Charles Sumner (who was a republican from Massachusettes.) Brooks beat Sumner with his Gutta-percha Cane. Sumner wanted to ed slavery in the South but Brooks wanted to bring slavery into the North.
