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Eli Whitney's invention
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Banning importation
Congress bands inportation of slaves from Africa. -
The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise banns slavery North of the southern boundary of Missouri. -
Nat Tuner
Enslaved Afican American preacher,leads the most significant slave uprising in American history. He and his band of followers launch a short, bloody rebellion in Southampton Country, Virginia. Turner is eventually caught and hung. -
Dred scott
Dred Scott sued for his freedom. Hargued that because his owner had taken him to live where slavery was illegal, he should be free. -
California free state
California applied for admission as a free state. -
The compromise of 1850
The compromise of 1850 admitted California as a free state, but came with fugitive slave act. This act required citizens in free states to return slaves to their owners. -
President Lincoln
President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring "that all persons held as slaves" within confederate state "are, and hencefoward shall be free."
