Eli Whitney invented Gin by combing those out of the cotton, making one slave process 1,000 pounds of cotton instead of just one pound. It was the United States money maker and one of the reasons why Southerners wanted slaves around. Southern etiquette brought along defenders to protect the usage of slavery. Defenders apologize for the rebellion, basically a cover-up instead, using words like economics, history, religion, legality, social good, and humanitarianism. In short, the United States split off in a disagreement over Northern and Southern traditions. The Civil War was the war that Lincoln did not cause, but instead it was the disagreement between the Northern and Southern states that raised strong emotions on both sides. One of those bigger factors was how slaves should be handled, whether they are free or not in specific states, and if the slaves should belong to the West. Slaves helped the South process all that cotton, having the saying “Cotton is King.” New Orleans (1884) shows the bustling port of New Orleans with bales of cotton waiting to be shipped (Figure 12.5). Using steamships to transfer the cotton to the river that led to New …show more content…
One of those effects was the Kansas and Nebraska Act, establishing the geographical boundary of slavery on the north and south axis. The South argues for the right to bring their enslaved wherever they choose, but the north argues that the west shouldn’t introduce slavery at all. Another one of these situations was Charles Sumner attacking Preston Brooks over a speech about the “border ruffians.” The “Caning of Sumner” in May 1856 followed upon a speech given by Sumner two days earlier in which he condemned slavery in no uncertain terms, declaring; “[Admitting Kansas as a slave state] is the rape of a virgin territory, compelling it to the hateful embrace of slavery; and it may be clearly traced to a depraved longing for a new slave state, the hideous offspring of national government (41.4.1). Including the Lincoln-Douglass debates that involved two men arguing the central issue of slavery and its expansion. This ended with Douglass losing the presidential run, but Lincoln also lost the support of the Democratic Party that Lincoln needed by his side. After the Civil War, it was clear that the United States had to work together