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Invention Of The Cotton Gin
The cotton gin is a machine design to remove cotton from its seed. It was invented by Eli Whitney.The cotton gin is way important. It made cotton production a profitable business which lead to the increase in slavery. Basically, it is what turned the south from a society with slaves to a slave society. -
The Embargo Act
Law passed by Congress and signed by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807. This law stopped all trade between America and any other country. The goal was to get Britain and France, who were fighting each other at the time, to stop restricting American trade. The Act backfired, and the American people suffered. The Act was ended in 1809. The act was also important because it proved, once again, the the young United States could hold it's own against England. -
The Missouri Compromise
It is an agreement in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States concerning the extension of slavery into new territories. It was important because it was a compromise on whether to allow slavery in the new territory of Missouri that pleased neither side and led to violence. It started the wheel's in motion for the Civil War. In the Missouri compromise the south annd the north, also Maine and Missouri. -
The Tariff Of Abominations
The Tariff of 1828, was a protectie tariff passed by the Congress of the United States. It was imprtant because the New England textile manufacturerd presse Congress and the administration for higher protective measures, -
The Compromise of 1850
Series of five bills that were intended to stave off sectional strife. It was to deal with the spread of slavery to territories in order to keep northern and southern interests in balance. President Taylor, William H. Seward, John C.. Calhoun and other southerners and Jefferson Davis was involved . -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The best selling book of the 19 century. It is a slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe it helped ay down the ground work for the Civil War. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Comprmise of 1820. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was important because it gave these two states permission to hold a vote deciding whether slavery will be legal or not, since they were on the border between the North and the South. As a result, Kansas became a free state as part of the Union, without slavery. Stephen Douglas was involved. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was a nickname given to Kansas to the United States Civil War due to the conflicts between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups. -
The Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott v. Sandford commonly referred to as the Dred Scott decison, was a ruling by the US Supreme Court. -
John Brown's Raid
John Brown, an abolitionist tried to start an antislavery rebellion by attacking the US. army post located in Harper's Ferry, Virginia. The people in the Union saw him as an incredibly bold hero while the Confederates saw him as a violent Northerner. -
The Election of 1860
The United States presidential election of 1860 was the 19th presidential election. The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860 and served as the immediate outbreak of the American Civil War. -
South Carolina secedes from the Union
The state's rights, the legality of secession, and the institution of black slavery had been issues of debate in the United States for decades before the election of Abraham Lincoln brought on the secession of the Southern states.
