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the cotton gin
http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/cotton-gin-and-eli-whitneythe cotton gin was invinted by Eli Whitney. He invinted it as a means of getting seeds out of cotton easier. The cotton gin is also known as the thing that helped rebirth slavery -
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undeerground rail road
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_RailroadThe Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century enslaved people of African descent in the United States in efforts to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. -
missouri compromise
http://www.britannica.com/event/Missouri-CompromiseFinally, a compromise was reached. On March 3, 1820, Congress passed a bill granting Missouri statehood as a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36th parallel, which runs approximately along the southern border of Missouri. -
Nat Turners Rebeillion
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6811/another name for this was the southampton insurrection. this consisted of Nat Turner and over 70 enslaved and free blacks. Nat and his colliges were killed. -
the liberator
http://www.accessible-archives.com/collections/the-liThe Liberator was an abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp in 1831. -
Wilmont Proviso
http://www.history.com/topics/wilmot-provisodesined to eliminate slavery. the land from the mMexican war was used . the presednt at the time was James K. Polk -
compromise of 1850
https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Compromise1850.htmlThe Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). -
uncle toms cabnin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom%27s_Cabin
it is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. it lays the groundwork for the civil war. -
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bleeding kansa
https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en#safe=strict&hl=en&q=bleeding+kansasBleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of the state of Missouri between 1854 and 1861 -
Kansa- Nebraska act
https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en#safe=strict&hl=en&q=kansas+nebraska+actThe Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 (10 Stat. 277) created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery .. -
brooks sumer event
http://www.ushistory.org/us/31e.aspMassachusetts was an avowed Abolitionist and leader of the Republican Party. After the sack of Lawrence, on May 21, 1856, he gave a bitter speech in the Senate called "THE CRIME AGAINST KANSAS." He blasted the "murderous robbers from Missouri," calling them "hirelings, picked from the drunken spew and vomit of an uneasy civilization. -
dred scott decision
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott_v._SandfordDred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857), was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court,[2][3] and that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States. Dred Scott, an enslaved African American man who had been taken by his owners to free states and t
