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Invention of the Cotton Gin
A machine that revolutionalized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from the cotton fiber. Invented by Eli Whitney in the United States in 1794. This help contribute by economically making things faster for the southern slavery territories. -
The Embargo Act
A general Embargo that made any and all exports from the United States illegal. This Act was sponsored by Thomas Jefferson and enacted by Congress. The goal was to punish Britan and France for interfering with American Trade while the other two were at war with eachother. Jefferson hoped that it would prevent war with Britan. -
Missouri Compromise
During this time, the United States contained twenty-two states and this compromise evenly divided the states between slave and free states. This caused conflict because mainly southern states were slave states. Henry Clay played a huge role in passing this compromise. -
Tariff of Abominations
A protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States on May 19, 1828. It was designed to protect industry in the northern United States from competition with foreign imports which would raise costs for people living in the south and would cut into the profits of New England's Industralists. -
Compromise of 1850
a package of five separate bills which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories. Senator Henry Clay proposed a series of resolutions and the Compromise of 1850 was one of them. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin an anti-slavery book in reaction to recently tightened fugitive slave laws. The book had a major influence on the way the American public viewed slavery and shined light on the things that were going on. " So This is the little lady who made this big war"- Abraham Lincoln -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Created the territiories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820. White male settlers in those territories were to determine through popular sovereignty whether they wanted slavery or not which caused a lot of uproar because of the 36' 30 line. -
Bleeding Kansas
A series of violence during the settling of Kansas .Proslavery and free-state settlers flooded into Kansas to try to influence the decision because it could be decided by the people whether it could be a free or slave state. Violence soon erupted as both factions fought for control. -
Dred Scott Case
A case where Dred Scott (Slave) who lived in a free state before returning to Missouri (Slave state). Scott argued that he should be emancipated and the court said that No blacks were allowed to be US citizens whether freed or not which led to war 3 years later. -
John Brown's Raid
Brown led 18 men into Harper's Ferry, VA to start a slave rebellion in the south which didn't last long and was hung for treason in Virginia. The North supported Brown's plan the south didn't. It led to a start of rebellion at the time for people who were against slavery. -
The Election of 1860
Election with 4 Cannidates Douglass, Breckenridge, Lincoln, Bell. it set the stage for the American Civil War. The nation had been divided throughout most of the 1850s on questions of states' rights and slavery in the territories -
SC secedes from Union
a convention to secede from the Union. State by state, conventions were held, and the confedreacy formed. SC was the first to secede from the US. This was a start of the war.
