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The Cotton Gin
The Cotton Gin was invented by Eli Whitney and it made the process of cotton to speed up. Because the southeners were going to need more labor than before slavery started to expand.The north of the U.S was already an anti slavery, but because the southeners were going to profit from the gin, they needed more slaves to do the work. This was the way that many slaves were brought in and started the disunion of the north and the south. -
The Missouri Compromise
Missouri wanted to be partvof the union, but if Missouri was added, the senate was going to be unbalanced. This compromise decided wheter a state was free or a slave state base on the 36° 30°. Later it was decided that Missouri was going to be a slave state and Maine a free state. This line divided the north and the south for the first time which determine what the state was. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
In this rebellion Nat went house to house in Southampton Country, Virginia with escaped slaves. They killed sixty man, woman, and chidren. Turner's rebellion was the bloodiest rebellion because of the amount of people killed. This caused a contreversy because slaves lost the little rights they had and couldn't get an education. Events like this made the south angry. -
Wilmot Proviso
David Wilmot came up with the Wilmot Proviso. This was to ban slavery in the territories that the U.S won from Mexico in the Mexican War. The wilmot proviso was going to benefit many slaves because it was a lot of land that was going to be free. Unfortunately it only passed the house and not the senate in the south. This enflamed the slavery contraversy and helped the reform of parties. This caused the first serious discussion about secession. -
Fugitive State Law
The Fugitive State Law was part of the missouri compromise of 1850 that was made by Henry Clay. This law was to make sure that the slaves that escaped were returned to their masters. This was a requirement for everyone. Many slaves were already escaping fron the south to the north. Nodrtheners feared of the power slavery had with this law. -
Uncle Tom's cabin
The book Uncle Tom's Cabin wa harriet Beecher Stowe's life as a slave. She wrote about the horrors of slavey. This brought attention to many abolitionists. The way the book described slavey made tension grow between slaveholders and non-slaveholders. This widened the division of the south and the north which led to disunion. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska act repealed the Missouri compromise and divided Kansas and Nebraska. This allowed for popular sovereignty to decide wheather they were going to be a free or slave state. Because of this many parties started separating. The act trigger the Republican party which bacame the popular party in the north. -
Pottawatomie Massacre
John Brown led uprisings in Kansas and Virginia where he and six others killed five pro-slavery settlers and left the bodies mutilated for others to see. He wanted to destroy slavery. The massacre caused Kansas ro erupt into guerilla warfare. The pottawatomie massacre was part of what was known as "bleeding Kansas" which I believe were the opening shots of civil war. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a slave who wanted to sue his master for his freedom. Unfortunatelly the supreme court said that he was property and had no right so that sue couldn't happen. The court added that the missouri compromise wasnt constitutional which had nothing to do with it. This case made northeners fear that the south was going to make sure that slavery was legal everywhere. -
Election of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln believed that slavery was wrong and he wanted to prevent slavery from spreading into other territories. Even though he didn't want to cheallenge areas where slavey already existed his election had many consequences. His election struck fears on southeners and many states started to secede.
