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Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was an underground system of railroads for slaves that traveled westward accross North America. -
Invention of cotton gin
Invented by Eli Whitney, the cotton gin was designed to clean cotton faster and took the production rate up by 1000%. people went form cleaning a pound of cotton to cleaning 10 punds of cotton daily. -
Missouri Compromise
Crafted by Henry Clay, the Northern district of Massachusetts would enter the union as a free state of Maine to balance admission of Missiouri as a slave state. -
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Tariff of 1828 & Nullification Crisis
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Compromise of 1850
This Compromise was a package 5 separate bills passed through the US Congress. This determined that the states aquired from Mexican-American War and other select states would be free states while others would be slave state. -
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