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The cotton gin was an invention that allowed people to pick the seeds out of the material a lot quicker than to pick it by hand.
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The Underground Railroad allowed around 100,000 slaves to escape from the Southern States into the North.
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This was an anti-slavery newspaper that ran until the end of slavery.
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This event happened between the Senators of South Carolina, Preston Brooks, and Massachusetts, Charles Sumner when Brooks attacked Sumner with a walking cane.
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The Dred Scott Decision was a Supreme Court battle in which an enslaved man, Dred Scott, was suing for his and his family's freedom.
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The Southern States(Slave States) left the Union to form the Confederate States of America because the Slave Abolitionist, Abe Lincoln, was elected into the office of President.
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Fort Sumter was the unofficial first battle in the Civil War. Fort Sumter was on an island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina that was controlled by Union troops. The fort surrendered when they ran out of ammunition.
