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Second Great Awakening
The second Great Awakening was when religious revivals would be held throughout the United States. There was many more people participating and going to church and many more reforms such as emancipation of women. -
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Second great awakening
The second great awakening was a religious revivals could be held throughout all of the United States. There were many people participating in going to church, they were trying to go for such as temperance and emancipation petition -
Creation of Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney created the cotton gin for quicker and faster cotton production. This caused more slaves to pick cotton faster and keep up with production of the cotton gin. -
Louisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson bought parts of land from France. This was considered an issue because under the Constitution it said he could not use the tax money but he did it anyway. -
Missouri compromise
There was a line in the United States to separate three states in slave states. The problem was that when California the Gold state came in it was in between the line so they had to come up with a problem to solve it to keep slave states in three states even in electoral votes. -
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American Industrial Revolution
The industrial revolution started in the North and created many job opportunities. This stayed mostly in the north and spread more west and led to chill labor. -
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Nat Turner‘s rebellion
A sleeve name that tune or lead one of the largest slavery rebellions killing many plantation owners and others. This made plantation owners more paranoid increasing the plantation owners treated slaves. -
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Nullification crisis
It was a conflict between South Carolina and Andrew Jackson about paying a high tariff. This almost caused South Carolina to succeed from the US and angering South Carolina in the process. -
California gold rush
Large amounts of gold were found in California, thousands flocked in search of it. The amount of people who moved to California made it eligible to be a state. Made the south mad because there wasn’t slavery. -
Compromise of 1850
It allowed California to be a free state and allow new states to choose. Allow new states to choose on slavery. It was unable to please both groups. More slave laws added. -
Frederick Douglass Fourth of July speech
Frederick Douglass gave a speech about how black people are not free. He used his public status to influence abolition. He gave a speech about fourth of July and that it doesn’t mean anything to black people. -
‘Bleeding Kansas”
This was a day where everyone voted for if they wanted Kansas to be a free state or slave state. The problem was that people were coming from different places outside of Kansas to vote and the people didn’t like that then there was a lot of fighting and violence. -
Nebraska act
It was an act that made laws on new states having slavery. The Mason Dixon line allowed all states south to have slaves, it caused later conflict with California. -
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Dred Scott versus Sanford
A slave went to a free state and still captive brought back in the same room. The court would not take the case because he wasn’t a US citizen he was an African dissent in the north got mad. -
Attack on Charles Sumner
A pro slavery senator Preston books used a cane to attack Charles summer. It’s cause more tension with slavery and states. -
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Raid on Harpers Ferry October
John Brown attempted to read a Siri what’s the weapons on board. It showed people anti-slavery are crazy and we’re bad people in general. -
Election of 1860
Lincoln was elected president and he thought slavery was wrong. Show that more people wanted into slavery and brought up questions on if the source should succeed. -
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Southerner succession
South declared they were there on country and broke off the US. Sure that the south didn’t like the north north wanted land back from confederate. -
Harriet Beecher wrote uncle Tom’s cabin
It was a book that was written to show no awful and in human slavery was. Put a more public eye on the torture of slavery. Persuading peoples opinions. -
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Mexican American war
A war between US and Mexico about annexing land. Do US to gain thousands of miles of land also increased tension between US and Mexico.