while slavery was expanding in the south, the northern states were abolishing it -- staking their future on free labor. the nation was becoming two separate societies. the of 1820 was designed to maintain a balance of free and slave states. yet, the cotton juggernaut would be unstoppable.
becomes the key crop, the key cash producer in the life of the nation. for a period of time, there are more millionaires along a narrow band of land along the mississippi river than in the entire rest of the nation combined. this is a terribly, terribly profitable crop were talking about. by 1840 the values of cotton exports was than everything else the nation exported to the world combined. and that made slaves the most valuable thing in the nation beside the land itself.
the daily task of each able-bodied slave during the cotton-picking season was pounds or more, and all those who did not come up to the required amount would get a whipping.
having made their fortunes in the deep south, planters turned their attention to gaining political power, becoming , , , .
harriet arrived in the bustling city of philadelphia. there she was met by members of the , an anti-slavery network dedicated to helping runaway slaves. there were more than half a million free blacks in the north, many of them, like harriet, had left loved ones behind in the south. harriets hope was to find her brother, john, who had fled edenton years earlier. she boarded a train to new york, and got her first taste of racial attitudes in the .
with victory in the bringing vast new territories into the union, the conflict between slave states and free states would explode. the south wanted room to grow. the north saw a promise land for free labor. as violent confrontation loomed in the west, congress devised the compromise of 1850. california would be admitted as a state and in return the south would get the most severe slave law in the nations history.
the fugitive slave law of 1850 you have to understand what this law said. it said that a person could be accused of being a fugitive slave and that person would have no right of self-defense. no right to speak on his or her own behalf. no right to a . no right to a .
in 1857, in a landmark decision, the supreme court ruled in the case that congress had no authority to limit the spread of slavery to any territory. the chief justices words stunned african americans.
the democratic party had fractured north and south, giving victory to the
ail splitter\ from illinois -- the first time a candidate was elected without carrying a single state.
remember lincoln was elected committed to with slavery anywhere. he was only committed to restricting its expansion. but at that point the slaveholders had become so convinced that the north was taken over by these lunatic abolitionists that that is the way they viewed abraham lincolns election, no matter what lincoln said.
the united states had come apart over slavery. the nation was at the brink of .

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while slavery was expanding in the south, the northern states were abolishing it -- staking their future on free labor. the nation was becoming two separate societies. the ​ of 1820 was designed to maintain a balance of free and slave states. yet, the cotton juggernaut would be unstoppable.
​ becomes the key crop, the key cash producer in the life of the nation. for a period of time, there are more millionaires along a narrow band of land along the mississippi river than in the entire rest of the nation combined. this is a terribly, terribly profitable crop were talking about. by 1840 the values of cotton exports was ​ than everything else the nation exported to the world combined. and that made slaves the most valuable thing in the nation beside the land itself.
the daily task of each able-bodied slave during the cotton-picking season was ​ pounds or more, and all those who did not come up to the required amount would get a whipping.
having made their fortunes in the deep south, planters turned their attention to gaining political power, becoming ​, ​, ​, ​.
harriet arrived in the bustling city of philadelphia. there she was met by members of the ​, an anti-slavery network dedicated to helping runaway slaves. there were more than half a million free blacks in the north, many of them, like harriet, had left loved ones behind in the south. harriets hope was to find her brother, john, who had fled edenton years earlier. she boarded a train to new york, and got her first taste of racial attitudes in the ​.
with victory in the ​ ​ bringing vast new territories into the union, the conflict between slave states and free states would explode. the south wanted room to grow. the north saw a promise land for free labor. as violent confrontation loomed in the west, congress devised the compromise of 1850. california would be admitted as a ​ state and in return the south would get the most severe ​ slave law in the nations history.
the fugitive slave law of 1850 you have to understand what this law said. it said that a person could be accused of being a fugitive slave and that person would have no right of self-defense. no right to speak on his or her own behalf. no right to a ​. no right to a ​ ​.
in 1857, in a landmark decision, the supreme court ruled in the ​ ​ case that congress had no authority to limit the spread of slavery to any territory. the chief justices words stunned african americans.
the democratic party had fractured north and south, giving victory to the
ail splitter\ from illinois -- the first time a candidate was elected without carrying a single ​ state.
remember lincoln was elected committed to ​ ​ with slavery anywhere. he was only committed to restricting its expansion. but at that point the slaveholders had become so convinced that the north was taken over by these lunatic abolitionists that that is the way they viewed abraham lincolns election, no matter what lincoln said.
the united states had come apart over slavery. the nation was at the brink of ​ ​.

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This text is about the history of slavery in the United States, including the Missouri Compromise, the role of cotton, the Fugitive Slave Law, the Dred Scott case, and the events leading up to the Civil War.
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Missouri Compromise, Cotton, more, 200, senators, congressmen, governors, judges, Underground Railroad, North, Mexican War, free, Fugitive, trial, jury trial, Dred Scott, Southern, no interference, Civil War

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