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Eli Whitney's invented the cotton gin. Made clothes easier to make. Cotton became king. Do to the cotton gin more slaves necessary to keep the plantantions running.
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The compromise of 1850 was when states tried to enter the union but they got an ultimation become a slave state or free state
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The law required northerners to help capture escaped slaves and return them to slaveholders in the south.
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Stowe's book told the story of an enslaved African American named Uncle Tom who is at the mercy of the brutal slaveholder Simon Legree.
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In these territories, popular sovereignty would be used to determine the issue of slavery. The settlers would vote whether to allow slavery.
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Scott could not file a lawsuit because african americans were not citizens. But the congress had no right to outlaw slavery.
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Weapons and ammunition were stored at the arsenal. Brown's plan was to give weapons to enslaved african americans to start a slave rebellion.
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Abraham Lincoln received 40 percent of the vote. However he earned majority in the electoral college. Southerners would fear the worst in the election.
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They planned to leave to the union which effected northeners.
