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invention of the cotton gin
In 1794, U.S.-born inventor Eli Whitney (1765-1825) patented the cotton gin, a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. [click here] (www.history.com/topics/inventions/cotton-gin-and-eli-whitney) -
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The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was was made to help enslaved people reach freedom. It exposed Northerners to the horror of slavery and how its a horrible system. -
Missouri Compromise
the compromise forbade slavery in Louisiana and any territory that was once part of the Louisiana. It contributed to the division and disagreement between north and south regarding the issue of slavery and made the issue more contentious between the two sides of the country.
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Nat turner's rebellion
Turner took a solar eclipse that occurred in February 1831 as a signal that the time to rise up had come. He recruited several other slaves to join him in his cause. On August 21, 1831, Turner and his supporters began their revolt against white slave owners with the killing the Travis family. -
Wilmont Proviso
The Wilmont Proviso was proposed t ban slavery in the states acquired from the Mexico after the Mexican War. -
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Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
uncle tom's cabin is published
Uncle Tom’s Cabin summary: Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a novel which showed the stark reality of slavery and is generally regarded as one of the major causes of the Civil War. The novel was written in 1852 by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe, a teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and a dedicated abolitionist, who was once greeted by Abraham Lincoln as the ‘little lady who started a war.’ -
bleeding kansas
Bleeding Kansas is the term used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraksa Act overturned the Missouri Compromise’s use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory and instead, using the principle of popular sovereignty, decreed that the residents would determine whether the area became a free state or a slave state. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
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Brooks-Summer Event
Sumner Event took place in 1856, In the United State congress, Representative Preston Brooks (D-SC) attacked senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) an abolitionist, with a walking cane.in retaliation for a speech given by Sumner two days earlier in witch he fiercely attacked slave holders including a relative of Brooks. -
dred scottn decision
Dred Scott decision, formally Dred Scott v. John F.A. Sandford, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled (7–2) that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States; and that the Missouri Compromise (1820), which had declared free all terrorist
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Lincoln-Douglass Event
A debate between Lincoln and Douglass about slavery.
