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Underground Railroad
the underground railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established by many anti-slavery believing white but, predominately free blacks https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2944.html -
Invention of the Cotton Gin
The Cotton Gin was a very important invention for its time it improves southern economy by a large amount but also called for a large increase in slave labor because the amount of cotton being "produced" was a lot more than was being picked http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/cotton-gin-and-eli-whitney -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was a deal between the north and the south that made Maine a free state and made Missouri a slavery state. http://www.history.com/topics/missouri-compromise -
Tariff of 1828 & nullification Crisis
The tariff of abominations was a protective tariff passed by united states congress to protect united states industry. The nullification crisis declared that the tariff of 1828 was unconstitutional. www.ushistory.org/us/24casp -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat turner's rebellion was a slave rebellion which led to the murder of 51 white people. http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/nat-turner -
The liberator is published
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Wilmot Proviso
David Wilmot was the one who proposed the proviso. Which was an american law to ban slavery in territory acquired from the Mexican war http://www.history.com/topics/wilmot-proviso -
Compromise of 1850
senator Henry clay introduced a series of resolutions in attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between north and south which was about the acquired territories from the Mexican war https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Compromise1850.html -
Uncle Tom's cabin is published
Uncle tom's cabin is a anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. the novel helped a lot to lay the groundwork for the civil war. This book helped illustrate the effect of slavery on families and helped emphasize with the usage of enslaved characters http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/uncle-toms-cabin-is-published -
'Bleeding Kansas'
Bleeding Kansas was the reprocuctions of the Nebraska-Kansas act which was when pro-slavery people poured into Kansas and they started fighting with free staters http://www.history.com/topics/bleeding-kansas -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This allowed states involved to decide whether or not slavery was allowed inside of their borders http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/kansas.htm -
Brooks-Sumner Event
The event was when Representative Preston brooks attacked senator Charles Sumner with his cane. Sumner gave a speech that attacked slave holders and Brooks relative. http://www.ushistory.org/us/31e.asp -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a slave that sued for his freedom. But the supreme court stated that no black man has rights. The slave owners can take their slaves wherever they liked; slaves were property. This outraged people saying slavery is legal in all of the united states http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/dred-scott-decision -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The series of seven debates between Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln were ones of the most important debates in us history.The famous debates revolved around the subject of slavery, Douglas was a radical abolitionist while Lincoln had slaves of his own.
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John Browns raid on Harper's Ferry
was a effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt to take a US arsenal.John Brown led a group of 21 men 16 white and 5 black. Brown's ultimate goal was to destroy the slave system of the South. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/johnbrown.htm -
Election of 1860
In the election of 1860 Abraham Lincoln beat John Breckenridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas. http://www.ushistory.org/us/32d.asp -
Fort Sumter is fired upon
This was the first engagement of the civil war which the confederates won. It took the south 6 days to finally attack after demanded surrender https://www.civilwar.org/learn/civil-war/battles/fort-sumter -
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Secession of Southern States
This is when eleven states from the upper and lower south during the civil war broke their ties with the union. http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/secession
