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Cotton Gin
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The cotton gin was made to make cotton picking easier for cotton farmers and slaves, but it then made slavery more common in the south than what was already there. -
Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was when Missouri became a state under the ideals of a slave state. in order to counter the new state, the state of Maine was formed under the ideals of the free states of the north. Do to this, a diagonal line formed splitting the United states in two. south was pro-slave, north was anti-slave. -
The Liberator is Published
The Liberator was published for the soul reason to stop slavery or at least push some away from it. It was also used to support women but mainly the point was to go against slavery. -
Nat Turner's Rebelion
Nat Turner was a slave who spent his whole life in the state of Virginia. He was highly intelligent and led the first "successful" rebellion in America. Yet he did not get his freedom and lost his life in his revolt, it did succeed to turn heads in the view of slaves. many people released their slaves and slaves would also revolt them selves. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. Ten years after a decade of appeals and court reversals, his case was brought to the United States Supreme Court. In what is the most infamous case in its history, the court decided that all people of African ancestry could never become citizens of the United States. -
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Underground Railroad
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The underground railroad is pretty ironic to it's name. reason is that it was not underground or did it involve railroad because the slaves would walk for days unending to get to the north of america, the name was used to just throw off the slave owners that wanted to keep their slaves. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 is when the United States capital, Washington D.C., abolished the slave trade, as well as Furthermore, California entered the Union as a free state. yet a territorial government was set up in the state of Utah. -
The Publishing of Uncle Tom's Cabin
The book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, is an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Most argue that this very book readied the ground for the civil war. The book was made to push the ideas of Slavery of the southern states. (It didn't work) -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
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This act was made to limit the expansion of slavery through out the U.S. It made the boarder of the south a little bit past the 36° 30´ latitude. But this made it to where Kansas would be fought over for pro or anti slavery laws leading to another event. -
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Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas AKA Bloody Kansas is the violent events caused by the Pro-slavery and the Anti-slaves rioting against each other in the state of Kansas. This event was also known as Bleeding Congress. -
Brooks-Sumner Event
Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was an Abolitionist and leader of the Republican Party. After the sack of Lawrence, on May 21, 1856, he gave a bitter speech in the Senate called "The Crime Against Kansas." later on as revenge, Preston Brooks beats Charles Sumner with a cane in public. -
Bleeding Kansas Poster
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Underground Railroad Route Picture
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Secession of the Southern States
After multiple arguments of the holding of slaves. Four slave-holding states left the country of the United states. Those states are Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee. The country those countries formed was the Confederate States of America.
