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Invention of the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin in 1794 which helped increase the production of cotton. It helped speed up removing seeds from cotton fibers. -
The Embargo Act
The Embargo Act was passed by Congress and forbid any international trade to and from American ports. It made illegal and all exports from the United States. -
The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was a issue about pro slavery and anti slavery factions within the Congress and in around the world. It had many people upset about the deicsions that were going to be made. -
The Tariff of Abnomations
The Tariff of Abnomation was passed to reduce the existing tariffs that was caused my earlier conflicts. It was also to help protect industry in the northern United States. -
The Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a set of laws that were passed to settle the dispute between pro slavery and anti slavery and make an agreement that would sastify both sides. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin is a anti slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The main characters are Uncle Tom, Eliza, Eva, and Simon Legree. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas- Nebraksa Act was a bill that aloowed settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be aloowed within that state. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery and pro-slavery during the settling of the Kansas territory. -
The Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott was a slave who lived in a free state before he returned to Missouri which was a slave state. But the courts did not decide in his favor. -
John Brown's Raid
John Brown let an army into a small of of Harpers Ferry Virgina. His plan was to orgainze a slave rebellion in the South. He fired on the federal complex and had and gathered up more slaves. -
the Election of 1860
the Election of 1860 really focused on the expansion of slavery and the rights of slave owners. This broke the Democratic Party into Northern and Southern factions, and a new Constitutional Union Party appeared.
