- We needed many slaves to seperate the small seeds from the white cotton fibers. It was a hard and difficult task to do, which took a lot of time.
-When the cotton gin was invented, cotton got very famous. There was many tarifs on the imports.
- People moved west because they found gold and there was more land. They also started to disagree about slavery, some people were for slavery and some weren't.
- Abraham Lincoln got elected, a democratic president that was against slavery. He abolished slavery.
- Nat Turner's rebellion in other words, the slaves rebellion against Nat Turner.
Effects
-Since they didn't have that much time and owners didn't have many slaves, the cotton gin was invented. All they needed to do was collect all the cotton.
- Everyone wanted to copy it and they all wanted gin. North was making more money. They had more factories and the South needed to buy from the North.
- They pushed Indians from their own land. Even though Indians were there first, they became homeless. The disagree about slavery started fights.
- The civil war started, as some thought his ideas for slavery were good and others didn't like it (known as the northerners and southerners.)
- The southerners are irate, and wish to start war against the slaves. They did this war, but with further reasons including Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, The slavery issue...