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Creation of cotton gin
When the cotton gin was made it spread like wildfire in the south causing slavery to boom. This made cotton more valuable because it was easier to clean the cotton. Because cotton is more valuable slavery is more valuable. -
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Second Great Awakening
Caused people to become a lot more religious. This caused people to become more critical of slaver causing people to wonder if slavery was right in the Bible’s eye. -
Louisiana Purchase
Jefferson bought the land from France to expand America's borders. This expanded land for slavery to extend too. This made tensions higher because slavery became bigger and bigger and this worried the north but it also expanded the amount of no slave states. -
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American Industrial Revolution
A boom in industrialization which changed the world and its economy. This also made cotton more valuable because textile was in a large demand and cotton was used to make textiles. The more expensive cotton for the more slavery was wanted in the south. -
Missouri Compromise
A line drawn on the map to prevent slave and free states to be made above the 36th parallel. This was meant to make the tensions go down between the north and the south but after the Mexican succession this causes a lot of confusion between both sides -
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Slaves rose up and rebelled against their masters killing 55 people. This caused the south to make excuses saying the black people were to dangerous and that they needed to be in slavery. -
Nullification Crisis
South carolina threatened to secede after jaxon implemented a new tax on goods. This shows that states were allowed to secede but will be met with a military threat. This also was foreshadowing the civil war. -
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Mexican American War
A war between the USA and Mexico that lead to a large amount of Mexican land being handed off the the USA after it was over. The land gained from the Mexican American war caused the USA to bring up slavery again. The Missouri compromise line had to be brought up again because a large amount of new land below that was below the line. -
California Gold Rush
A massive migration to California was made because of Gold. Most of California was in the South so the Southerners thought it would become a slave state but California outlaws slavery in the state constitution so there was a fierce debate whether it will be a slave state or not. -
Compromise Of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War. The Compromise of 1850 amended the Fugitive Slave act and let California join the Union as a Free State. A territorial government was also created in the state of Utah. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a poem which was meant to talk about slavery and how it is bad. Helped lay the groundwork of the American Civil War. -
Frederick Douglass gives July 4th Speech
The 4th of July speech was to convince people that slavery was very wrong and make abolition more acceptable to Northern Whites. Frederick Douglass helped Abraham Lincoln by being a consultant and that Frederick convinced Abraham that slaves should fight in the Union forces and the abolition of slavery should be the goal of the war. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was an act which made the states Kansas and Nebraska choose if they could make slavery legal or not. This act resulted in the fact that slavery could be legal in northern states were once, slavery was banned. This also led to the Civil War. -
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Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas started from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in Kansas State. 55 people died during this. This resulted in new property which was Kansas, and slavery became open to the North. The northerners were outraged and the South were overjoyed. -
Attack On Charles Sumner
Preston Brooks who was pro-slavery attacked Charles Sumner who was a slavery abolitionist with a walking cane. Preston was from South Carolina and Charles was from Massachusetts. Charles almost died from the crane beating and this divided and polarized the North and South even more. This eventually led to the Civil War. -
Dredd Scott vs Sanford
Dredd Scott was a slave who was owned by Dr. Emerson who was an army surgeon . After Dr. Emerson died, Dredd Scott wanted to sue his wife and wanted to be free because he lived in a free state for a bit. The outcome was that Dredd Scott would be remained a slave along with his family. This made the North and South even more divided and we got closer to the Civil War. -
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Raid on Harper’s Ferry
John Brown and a bunch of other runaway slaves raided Harper’s Ferry and went into the armory. John Brown got caught and the state decided that it was treason against the country and he was executed. It created the Confederate Army and was also one of the main reasons as to why the Civil War started. Southerners were afraid of slaves rebelling. -
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Southern Secession
The Southern States and the Northern States were fighting about slavery. 11 Southern states which declared slavery as legal seceded and caused the Civil War. Most of the North decided to make slavery illegal while the South wanted slavery to be legal. The North used machinery and industrial stuff to be more productive while the South wanted to stick with Slavery for farming and vegetation. -
Élection of 1860
President Abraham Lincoln was to be elected as president for the Republican Party, and his opposition was Stephen Douglas for the Democrats. This ultimately started the Civil War because Lincoln wanted to put a stop on slavery for a little while and the Southerners disagreed with that. The Northerners liked that statement. -
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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 was attacked by the South Carolina militia. Union troops lost and surrendered the fort to the Confederate militia. 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.