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Antebellum South
Antebellum was the time before the American Civil War (Ignitia.com Editors). Black slavery was to provide a wealthy style of living for the owners, making them work hours and hours (Ignitia.com Editors). -
The Creation of the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793, Whitney knew that it would become profitable. Because of the cotton gin slavery grew tremendously. Cotton had a big impact on clothing industries and increased the price. -
The First Modern Depression
The first Modern Depression effected the United States and all the people. The stock market went down, shops closed, families lost their homes, cotton went down in price. For example, the average price of cotton in New Orleans dropped more than 30 cents a pound to less than 15 cents a pound (Ignitia.com Editors). Everyone got the worst of this big event, especially the west they lost more than anyone, food prices dropped causing a panic. -
Missouri Compromise
Henry Clay supported a compromise that helped resolve Maine separating from Massachusetts. The Missouri compromise provided for the admittance of Missouri as a slave state and the admittance of Maine as a free state (Ignitia.com Editors). -
Fugitive Slave Act
People in the North resented the intrusion of the federal commissioners into a state responsibility (Ignitia.com Editors). Southerners responded that northern states often ignored federal laws on the fugitive slaves (Ignitia.com Editors). They suggested that the law be strengthened to guarantee the return of valuable slave property (Ignitia.com Editors). -
Dred Scott v. Sanford decision
Dred Scott lived as slave in the state of Illinois. Illinois is in the Wisconsin territory where slavery is forbidden. The man Dred Scott was living with had died, his title was soon transferred to a new owner. Dred Scott then sued for his freedom, the case made it to court on March 7, 1857, Chief Justice Rodger B announced that he was not a free man (Ignitia.com Editors). In effect, the court repealed the Missouri Compromise in the Dred Scott Case (Ignitia.com Editors). -
Lincoln's Election
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas were both running to represent Illinois in the United States Senate (Ignitia.com Editors). Lincoln delivered his famous speech "A House Divided." Abraham Lincoln did not expect the Union to be dissolved or the nation to fall, but that it would cease to be divided (Ignita.com Editors). -
Civil War
During the Civil War an issue re emerged about the Colonization, opposing many northern freedman and abolitionists. Thousands of slaves fled the confederate army filtering into the Union camps (Ignita.com Editors). The People in the North believed that blacks and white people could not live together peacefully (Ignitia.com Editors). Congress appropriated $600,000 to help black freedmen emigrate from the nation's capital (Ignitia.com Editors). -
Emancipation Proclamation
Slaves were held all in the thirteen original colonies (Ignitia.com Editors). Free and slave black men fought valiantly in every state except South Carolina and Georgia during Revolutionary War (Ignitia.com Editors). After the war, slaves were manumitted in return for their military service. Then, starting with Vermont in 1777, the northern states banned slavery within borders through gradual emancipation acts (Ignitia.com Editors). -
Lincoln's death
Lincoln was killed in the year 1865, by John Wilks booth, He was assassinated at the Ford's Theater in Washington D.C (Britannica.com) Only days after the Appomattox Court House was Lincoln assassinated and he sadly died the next morning (Britannica.com)