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1793 BCE
Creation of cotton gin
Eli Whitney created a machine that would help all slaves and slave owners produce more cotton and a shorter amount of time. This increased the tension by making the slaves work more productive then starting with the seeds so there was more money and more cottton for the slave owners. -
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Second great awakening
Second Great Awakening, Protestant religious revival in the United States from about 1795 to 1835. During this revival, meetings were held in small towns and large cities throughout the country, and the unique frontier institution known as the camp meeting began. -
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American industrial revolution
The American Industrial Revolution commonly referred to as the Second Industrial Revolution, started sometime between 1820 and 1870. Both Industrial Revolutions led to inventions that included the telephone, the steam engine, the sewing machine, the X-ray, the lightbulb, and the combustible engine. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase eventually doubled the size of the United States, greatly strengthened the country and other many. It helped the United States become what they are today. -
Missouri compromise
Enacted in 1820 to maintain the balance of power in Congress, the Missouri Compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. This made the first stage to be a free and non free slave state. -
Nat turners rebellion
Nat Turner's Rebellion, also known as the Southampton Insurrection, was a rebellion of enslaved Virginians that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831, led by Nat Turner. -
Nullification Crisis (President Jackson)
On December 10, 1832, President Andrew Jackson issued a Proclamation to the People of South Carolina (also known as the “Nullification Proclamation”) that disputed a states' right to nullify a federal law. In November 1832 South Carolina adopted the Ordinance of Nullification, declaring the tariffs null, void, and nonbinding in the state. U.S. Pres. Andrew Jackson responded in December by issuing a proclamation that asserted the supremacy of the federal government. -
Mexican American war `
Mexico claimed the Nueces River as its northeastern border, while the U.S. claimed the Rio Grande River, and the day that both troops met at the Rio Grande and the Mexican army opened fire, on April 25, 1846, the Mexican American War began. Under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which settled the Mexican-American War, the United States gained more than 500,000 square miles (1,300,000 square km) of land, expanding U.S. territory by about one-third. -
California gold rush
The Gold Rush significantly influenced the history of California and the United States. It created a lasting impact by propelling significant industrial and agricultural development and helped shape the course of California's development by spurring its economic growth and facilitating its transition to statehood. -
Compromise of 1850
As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. Furthermore, California entered the Union as a free state and a territorial government was created in Utah. Allowed the United States to expand its territory by accepting California as a state. A territory rich in gold, agricultural products and other natural resources would create wealth and enrich the country as a whole. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle toms is an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was published in 1852. It greatly influenced many people's thoughts about African Americans and slavery in the United States. Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin widened the chasm between the North and the South, greatly strengthened Northern abolitionism, and weakened British sympathy for the Southern cause. -
Fredrick Douglas speech on 4th of July
A day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. He became a leader in the abolitionist movement, which sought to end the practice of slavery, before and during the Civil War. -
Kansas Nebraska act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty. Of the most significant and lasting effects the Kansas-Nebraska Act had on the American political system was the formation of the Republican Party. -
Attack on Charles sumner
The Caning of Charles Sumner, or the Brooks–Sumner Affair, occurred on May 22, 1856, in the United States Senate chamber, when Representative Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery Democrat from South Carolina, used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist Republican from Massachusetts. -
Raid on harpers ferry
The raid of the harpers ferry was an a assault by an armed band of abolitionists led by John Brown on the federal armoury located at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now in West Virginia). It was a main precipitating incident to the American Civil War. -
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Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas describes the period of repeated outbreaks of violent guerrilla warfare between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces following the creation of the new territory of Kansas in 1854. -
Dred Scott vs Sanford
The Supreme Court ruled that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court. Tis effected America because it made it so slaves were not American citizens but not just slaves and African American poeople of decent couldn’t be a citizen. -
Election of 1860
The 1860 presidential election turned on a number of issues including secession; the relationship between the federal government, states, and territories; and slavery and abolition. This event basically lead to the civil war and changed lives for African Americans forever. -
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 military. Unlike previous acts of violence, this was the first time violence broke out between organized military troops. Fighting in the Civil War would continue for 4 more years after this event. -
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Southern secession
Southern states seceded from the union in order to protect their states' rights, the institution of slavery, and disagreements over tariffs. Secession summary: the secession of Southern States led to the establishment of the Confederacy and ultimately the Civil War.