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A change in the way consumer goods are made. Mass production in the North made northerners and southerners develop different values.
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A period of renewed social sense of importance in religion. There was high participation among African Americans, and White women, and it led to an antebellum social reform.
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Through faster cleaning and production of cotton, the creation of the cotton gin increased the demand of slavery, making slavery a key component to Southern economy
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A territorial expansion enacted by Thomas Jefferson to expand slavery created a half century of conflict between pro and anti slavery settlers in Louisiana territory.
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The compromise permitted California to join the union and become a free state while proposing a new and more effective fugitive slave law. The South felt threatened by anti-slavery views because of this.
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A slave rebellion. This event destroyed the White Southern myth that slaves were happy, and forced the nation to question slavery.
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Jackson issued a proclamation for South Carolina to nullify the laws of 1828 and 1832 forcing taxes. Unionism and states rights were argued.
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Mexico and the U.S. break out in a war over land. The treaty makes a border, the U.S. pays Mexico $15 million in exchange for the Southwestern states.
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One of the greatest mass migrations in American history made free-states become more powerful than slave-states.
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California becomes a free state. This delays the union from splitting.
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The anti-slavery novel affected many readers through empathy, and changed people’s views on slavery.
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Reversing the Missouri Compromise, the Act created a strain and increased tension between the North and the South.
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Proof of the growing tension between the North and the South are the effects of the invasion of 5,000 pro-slavery men.
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This event led to the polarization of the North and south.
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The Supreme Court ruling against Dred Scott- a freed slave. The North and South were further polarized by this decision.
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John Brown leading, the anti-slavery raid’s effects were the beginning of a confederate army.
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Because of this decision, Abraham Lincoln ordered soldiers to crush the rebellion.
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The election of president Lincoln brought the fear of the union being radicalized, so the South seceded.
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“This was the official start of fighting in the American Civil War... Fighting in the civil war would continue for 4 more years after this event.”
