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Cotton Gin
The invention of the cotton gin contributed to the tension between the South and the North.
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The Missouri Compromise
After the Louisiana purchase, Congress was wanted to establish a policy to guide the expansion of slavery into the new territory. Missouri’s application for statehood as a slave state sparked a bitter national debate. -
Tariff of 1828
The goal of the tariff was to protect industries in the northe wich were being out of business by low priced goods imported form Great Britain by taxing them.
The South oposed this tariff because the Great Britain industry wont buy any more of their cotton if the exportation to the USA was falling
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Nullification Crisis
The Goverment would win money from exported things, the USA goods would be protected. The South didn't want the policy to affect the cotton exportation
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Manifiest Destiny
The belief about that USA should colonice the West, will create tension about new territories and slave laws.
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The Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso was a piece of legislation proposed by David Wilmot at the close of the Mexican-American War. The Proviso would have outlawed slavery in territory acquired by the United States. -
Mexican-American War
Mexico attacks Texas and the USA supports Texas. The Whigs denounce the war. Antislavery said that the war was a pretext for gaining slave territory -
The Compromise of 1850
The compromise prevented territorial expansion of slavery while strengthening the Fugitive Slave Act, a law which oblied Northerners to catch and return escaped slaves to the South. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The creation of the states of Kansas y Nebraska, brought tension because the decision about slavery in the states.
The senator Douglas called for a "Popular Sovereignty" to decide if slavery would be allowed.
The Republican Party is created.
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Bleeding Kansas
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, change parts of the Missouri Compromise by allowing the settlers in the two territories to determine to or not to permit slavery by a popular vote. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott lost his case proving that he should be free because he had been held as a slave while living in a free state.A bolitionist increased their efforts to fight against slavery.
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John Brown
John Brown was an abolitionist who involved in anti slavery violence in Kansas. On 1859, he led a group of seventeen including five black members to raid the arsenal, his goal was to start a slave avenge using the captured weapons.
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Abraham Lincoln was elected president
The election of the republican candidate, Abraham Licoln. He didn't had a position about slavery, but the South was scared about what would happen after the election.
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