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Invention of the cotton gin
it was hard to remove seeds from cotton fiber, and it made the process of picking cotton slower. But Eli came up with an idea that was inspired by a friend. and it was the cotton gin which was able to speed up the process.
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The Liberator is published
The Liberator was a weekly newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison in Boston, Massachusetts. He gained a national reputation for being one of the most radical of American abolitionists. More History at: http://www.accessible-archives.com/collections/the-liberator/#ixzz4tPpPGFjK More History at -
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Missouri Compromise
In 1819, Missouri requested admission as a state(a slave state), and at the time there was 22 states divided evenly between slave and free states. And people became upset because the balance would become uneven and people rioted until the U.S. Congress came up with a comprimise that Missouri would be accepted as a slave state but maine had to become a free state. the admission took a year before going through.
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The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was established for enslaved people in their escape to freedom. The railroad was comprised of lots of secret routes and safe houses originating in the slaveholding states and extending all the way to the Canadian border.
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Nat Turners Rebellion
Nat Turner’s rebellion was one of the largest slave rebellions ever to take place in the United States, and it played an important role in the development of antebellum slave society. info on Turner's rebellion -
The Wilmot Proviso
David Wilmot was a man who wanted to make an agreement that slavery should be banned in the territory acquired from mexico during the Mexican-American War. The proviso didn't allow expansion of any slavery into any territory acquired by the United States from Mexico.
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Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 consists of five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery. To balance out the slave and free states and keep the peace between north and south.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin Is Published
Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel. The novel helped lay out the groundwork for the civil war.
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Kansas - Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´.
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Lincoln- Douglas Debates
The Lincoln–Douglas debates were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. Lincoln and Douglas were trying for their respective parties to win control of the Illinois General Assembly. Although Illinois was a free state, the main issue discussed in all seven debates was slavery in the United States. -
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. The electoral split between Northern and Southern Democrats was emblematic of the severe sectional split, particularly over slavery, and in the months following Lincoln’s election seven Southern states, led by South Carolina seceded, setting the stage for the American Civil War. -
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Succession of the southern states
The Confederacy was originally formed by seven secessionist slave-holding states – South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas – in the Lower South region of the United States whose regional economy was mostly dependent upon agriculture, particularly cotton, and a plantation system that relied upon the labor of African-American slaves.more about the succession of the southern states
