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Invention of the Cotton Gin
Radically changed the South. Changed from a slave being able to de-seed cotton from 1 pound a day to 50 pounds a day. This sprouted growth of slavery and cotton farms moving west in the south. -
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Missouri Compromise
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Dred Scott Supreme Court Case
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Compromise of 1850
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Uncle Tom's Cabin Published Date
Uncle Tom's Cabin was a book written by Harriet Betcher Stowe, a housewife. That showed the bad things about slavery and was world-wide. Turning the world againist the South. -
Kansas/Nebraska Act
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Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Held in Illinos, tencially Douglas won the debate but Lincoln benefitted too. Lincoln got his name out and became well known after this debate. -
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
John Brown was a radical abolitionist. When he went to Kansas he was a focal point of the violence that happened there. He attacked a government with about 20 other people. He was hoping other slaves would join him but almost no one did. He was soon captured and after a trial, hung. -
Presidential Election of Lincol
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Secession of South Carolina
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Attack on Fort Sumter
The First shots of the civil war shot in Fort Sumter, South Carolina.
