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Invention of the Cotton Gin
The Cotton Gin is 50 pounds. One slave is 1 pound. There are many slaves needed to rise, pick and plant. The Vaule of slaves went up from before the invention slaves were 300 dollars and after the invention slaves became 2,000 dollars. -
Missouri Compromise
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that exposed the evils of slavery to the world. This book was a worldwide best seller. The people of Europe were against slavery. The impact of the book was that it turned people in Europe against the South as they realized that all of the cotton they were nuying from the south was a product. -
Compromise of 1850
California would become a free starte, making 16 free states and 15 slave states. A stricter Fugitive slave law was put in place. This law forced citzem of the north to assist in the return of the runway slaves. It made it much easier for slave owners tp get runaway slaves back. -
Kansas- Nebraska Act
Act passed by congress that started the popular sovoneigoty would decide the the issuse of slavery in the Kansas/ Nebraska terriories. -
Dred Scott Supreme Court Case
Supreme court ruled that according to the Constitution, slaves were strictly the porperty of their owners. -
Lincoln- Douglas Debates
Lincoln was against slavery. Douglas tried to aviod making a strong stand on slavery issuses by saying that popular sovereignty should decide the issuse in each area. -
John Brown's Raid of Harper's Family
John Brown was a cradical aboilitionist. John Brown had gone to Kansas and was afocal point of the violence -
Election of Lincoln
The south now sees that the Republicans are working to bring an end to slavery. -
Secession of South Carolina
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Attack of Fort Sumter
The First shots of the Civil war were fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina
