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War with Mexico
When the Mexican-American War ended, the United States received some of Mexico's land. With this huge land acquisition, the issue of slavery in the new territories was raised. -
Cottin Gin
It was invented by Eli Whitney 1793. which influenced manufacture history in the U.S.. The Cotton Gin was used to remove the seed in the cotton. How it worked was put the cotton bolls put into the top of the machine then through the wire teeth to take out the seeds then it comes out the Cotton Gin. -
Missouri Compromise
in 1819, Missouri was joining the U.S. and was going to enter the Union. At the time, the U.S. had an equal balance of free and slave states. Missouri came as a slave state and broke the equal balance until a senator made Maine a free state. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican War. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
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 -
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Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian", or "southern" elements in Kansas between 1854 and 1861, including "Bleeding Congress". -
The Dred-Scott Decision
The court found that no black person could claim U.S. citizenship, and therefore blacks were unable to petition the court for their freedom. The Dred Scott decision incensed abolitionists and heightened North-South tensions, which would erupt in war just three years later. -
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates
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. -
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John Brown's Raid
Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Virginia, in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery. Brown’s raid helped make any further accommodation between North and South nearly impossible and thus became an important impetus of the Civil War. -
Election of President Lincoln
In 1860, Lincoln won the party's presidential nomination. Lincoln again faced Douglas, who represented the Northern faction of a heavily divided Democratic Party. -
Secession of South Carolina
it was adopted on December 20, 1860. South Carolina was the first slave state. To declare that it had seeded from the U.S. -
Transcontinental Railroad
The Transcontinental Railroad is a contagious network of railroad tracks that crosses a continental land mass with terminals at different oceans or continental borders. Helped open up unpopulated interior regions of continents to exploration and settlement that would not otherwise have been feasible.
