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Invention of the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney (1765–1825) applied for a patent of his cotton gin on October 28, 1793; the patent was granted on March 14, 1794, but was not validated until 1807. -
The Liberator is published
The Liberator. The Liberator was a weekly newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison in Boston, Massachusetts. William Lloyd Garrison was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts in December, 1805. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner's Rebellion (also known as the Southampton Insurrection) was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, during August 1831. -
Tariff of 1828 & Nullification Crisis
In November 1832 the Nullification Convention met. The convention declared that the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and unenforceable within the state of South Carolina after February 1, 1833. -
Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early-to-mid 19th century, and used by African-American slaves to escape into free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. -
Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso proposed an American law to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War. -
The Compromise of 1850
On January 29, 1850 Henry Clay proposed a list of resolutions hoping to bring a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and slave trade was abolished in Washington D.C. The Compromise also allowed California to enter the Union as a free state and created a territorial government in Utah. https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Compromise1850.html -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The act gave the people of Kansas and Nebraska the ability to decide for themselves whether or not slavery would be allowed within their borders. The act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which infuriated many people in the North who considered the Missouri Compromise a long-standing, binding agreement. http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/kansas.htm -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas is the period of violence that came after the settling of Kansas. After the Kansas-Nebraska act was passed pro-slavery and free state settlers began to flood into Kansas to influence the vote. Soon after violence erupted as both factions fought for control with the anti-slavery led by abolitionist John Brown before his famed raid on Harper's Ferry. -
Brooks-Sumner Event
Occurred in the United States Senate when Rep. Preston Brooks attacked attacked Sen. Charles Sumner, an abolitionist in retaliation for a speech given by Sumner in which he fiercely criticized slaveholders including a relative of Brooks'. The beating nearly killed Sumner drew a sharply polarized response from the American public on the subject on expansion of slavery in the United States. -
Dred Scott Decision
The Dred Scott Decision affirmed the right of slave owners to take their slaves into Western territories, therebynegating the doctrine of popular sovereignty and severely undermining the newly created Republican party. Dred Scott was a slave whose owner had spent time in Illinois and Wisconsin, both free states, but the court held that Scott wasn't free based on his residence in either Illinois or Wisconsin because he was not considered a person under the U.S. Constitution.
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Lincoln and Douglas participated in seven debates throughout Illinois, one in each of the State's Congressional districts. Lincoln was running for Douglas's Senate seat as a republican. Although Senators were elected by State legislatures until 1913, Douglas and Lincoln took their arguments directly to the people. http://www.history.com/topics/lincoln-douglas-debates -
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry (also known as John Brown's raid or The raid on Harper's Ferry)[2] was an effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
Election of 1860
United States presidential election of 1860. United States presidential election of 1860, American presidential election held on Nov. 6, 1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. -
Secession of Southern States
The seven secessionist, slave-holding states were South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. These states from 1861-1865 known as the Confederacy. Each state announced its secession after the November 1860 election of Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America -
Fort Sumter is fired upon
Beauregard, in command of the Confederate forces there and Maj. Robert Anderson, the Sumter garrison commander. The talks failed to resolve tensions, forcing Beauregard to action. Early in the morning of April 12, 1861, Confederate guns around the harbor opened fire on Fort Sumter. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
Uncle Tom's Cabin is a 1910 American silent short drama produced by the Thanhouser Company. The film was adapted by from the 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
