Dred Scott is declared a slave by the Supreme Court. Their decision also states that African-Americans are not citizens and that slaves are treated as property by law., Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a book about slavery and its evils, is published. , Abraham Lincoln is elected president., The Fugitive Slave Law passes, stating that you can be fined or jailed for helping escaped slaves and those living in the North can be taken back to their owners. , Bleeding Kansas: fighting between pro slavery and abolitionist men in Kansas to try to control the vote determining whether Kansas will be a slave state or a free state., John Brown raids the arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, and tries to start a slave uprising. , Kansas-Nebraska Act passes, allowing those living in the territory to vote on whether a new state will be slave or free., Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, a machine that made cotton a worthwhile crop and created a greater need for slave labor., Missouri Compromise: an effort to keep the balance between slave and free states by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state..

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