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American Industrial Revolution
The time in america were more factories were produced, jobs benign made, and slavery continuing to prosper. This led to new manufacturing processes in the country and higher agricultural productivity -
Second Great Awakening
It was a Protestant religious revival where people would gather religiously. Many speaches were given and it sparked many reform movements -
Invention of cotton gin
It was a machine that separated the seeds from cotton allowing a faster manufacturing process, cleaning cotton went to 10 pounds a day to 1000 pounds a day. -
Louisiana Purchase
The acquisition of Louisiana from France in 1803 for approximately 15 million -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, slavery was excluded from all new states in the louisiana purchase north of the southern boundary of Missouri -
Nat Turners rebellion
a slave rebellion led by Nat Turner where slaves murdered thier enslavers and other white people -
Nullification Crisis (President Jackson)
South Carolina doesn't want to pay taxes that help the
northern economy. They want to secede from the union
but Andrew Jackson threatens to send in the military -
Mexican American War
after Texas broke free from Mexico they asked American
to annex them. 'They refused once but when a southern
president was elected they did and beat Mexico in a war
and took everything of the modern day United States. -
California Gold Rush
One man found gold on a farm and told people about it.
Word then soon got out and California was overrun by
people trying to find gold. -
Comprimise of 1850
this compromise was about having territories decided
whether to have slaves nor not. This also saw California
enter as a state and Utah as a territory. -
Uncle toms cabin
It was a story about a slave who is beaten and
treated very poorly by a southerner. This was to
sway peoples minds about slavery and to express the horrors people haven’t seen before -
Fredrick Douglass 4th of July speech
it talked about independence for negros. It
represents that the black popular action is not free
but still repressed -
Kansas Nebraska act
this added two territories Kansas and Nebraska and
caused bleeding Kansas. Many pro and anti slavery
activist fought in Kansas and tried to make the state
free or pro slavery -
Bleeding Kansas
violent fights between pro slavery groups and anti
slavery groups -
Attack on Charles Summer
it was a violent attack on abolitionist Charles Sumner by
pro - slavery representative Preston Brooks -
Dried Scott vs Stanford
it was a case that said that African Americans aren't
citizens of the United States -
Election of 1860
It was the presidential election between Abraham
Lincoln, John Breckinridge, John Bell, And Stephen
Douglas -
Southern Sessecion
This event happened when many southern states broke
off from the country -
Shots fired at Ft. Sumter
This was the official start of fighting in the American Civil War. Union troops (northern troops) stationed at Ft. Sumter in South Carolina were attacked by the South Carolina militia. Union troops lost and surrendered the fort to the Confederate militia.