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Cotton Gin
Was invited byEli Whitney in 1793, he patented march 14,1794. -
Missouri Compromise
passed in 1820 makings Missouri a slave state end in Maine free -
Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bloody Kansas or the border war was a series of violent confrontation. Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery "Free-States" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian", or "southern" elements in Kansas between 1854 and 1861, including "Bleeding Congress". -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It allowed people in the territories Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´. -
The Dred-Scott Decision
That Dred Scott was not on entitled to his freedom. Sandford, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled (7–2) that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States; and that -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
was a series of seven debates between Lincoln and Douglas.The Lincoln–Douglas Debates of 1858 (also known as The Great Debates of 1858) were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. -
John Brown's Raid
is the raid of tharpers ferry or not t allow slavery within their borders. On October 16, 1859, John Brown led a small army of 18 men into the small town of HARPER'S FERRY, Virginia. His plan was to instigate a major slave rebellion in the South. -
Election of President Lincoln
elected in 1860, In 1860, Lincoln won the party's presidential nomination. In the November 1860 election, Lincoln again faced Douglas, who represented the Northern faction of a heavily divided Democratic Party, as well as Breckinridge and Bell. -
Secession of S.C
When the ordinance was adopted on December 20, 1860, South Carolina became the first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the United States. ... — Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina, (December 24, 1860).It was the first state that secreded from the United States -
Transcontinental Railroad
A train cross route across the U.S ,finished in 1869. Two lines met in Utah. A way to help slaves escape as well. -
War with Mexico
War between U.S and Mex. steaming for the U.S annexation of Tex in 1845.Spanish Guerra de 1847 or Guerra de Estados Unidos a Mexico (“War of the United States Against Mexico”), war between the United States and Mexico (April 1846–February 1848) stemming from the United States' annexation of Texas in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ...