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Second Great Awakening
This was a Protestant religious revival in the United States.
It may have made more people want to abolish slavery. It also made many reform movements. -
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American Industrial Revolution
This was a time period in which many inventions were being made. This made many people move to the North because that was where many of the jobs started to grow. Also, there was a lot of transportation there for people to get around and more immigrants moved up north. -
Creation of Cotton Gin
It’s a machine that makes separating cotton fibers from their seeds quick and easy.
This made the South buy much more enslaved people so they could pick more cotton to sell. Due to this happening , the north didn’t like it because they didn’t like slaves. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was the territory that the United States bought from Napoleonic France for 15 million dollars.
This made America much larger and expands land westward but creates conflict with indigeous people. This helped Jackson while he was in his presidential campaign. -
Missouri Compromise
Missouri is admitted to the Union as a slave state but in the future, states north of Missouri would be admitted only if they were free
The politician balance between the north and south had been kept by admitting slave and free states. The more popular North had come to dominate the House of Representatives and the South redressed the balance. -
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Nat Turner was an enslaved man who led enslaved people and created a massacre to abolish slavery.
This made southern states start making militias due to the attack. That way, if they were to get attacked again, they would have protection. -
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Nullification Crisis (President Jackson)
It was a confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government in 1832–1833 over the former's attempt to declare null and void within the state the federal Tariffs
This almost made the Civil War start due to tension between the states. A tariff bill was compromised and it ended. -
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Mexican American War
Due to the annexation of Texas there was a dispute over if Texas ended at the Nueces River or the Rio Grande. The war resulted in the US winning.
Winning the war helped acquire 500,000 square miles expanding westward from the Rio Grande to the Pacific Ocean. -
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California Gold Rush
As the country expanded westward a lots of people started to settle in western territory and when word spread that gold was found in California over 300,000 people came to find gold.
By August 1848 4,000 gold miners turned into 8,000 gold miners. Many estimated that about $2 billion dollars in gold was extracted. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
A book published by Harriet Beecher Stowe about the story of a enslaved person and what he goes through
This novel reached worldwide popularity especially among white people in the north. Helped people in the north realize what was going on in the south. -
Fredrick Douglass Gives 4th of July speech
A speech given by Fredrick Douglass on The Fourth of July about being a negro during the Fourth of July. The speech is advocating equal justice and rights, and citizenship for blacks.
in the north the speech was reprinted and was published and sold as a 40 page pamphlet within weeks. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
A act that allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide if they want to be a free or slave state using popular sovereignty.
slave owners and anti slavery rush to Kansas to secure their allege vote and cause a lot of violence in Kansas. -
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Bleeding Kansas
Thousands of abolitionist northerners and pro-slavery southerners travel to Kansas. They intend to cross the border for only long enough to vote. while they were there southern slave-owners and slavery fight each other and radical abolishinist john browns and his sons murder many pro slavery settlers. -
Attack on Charles Sumner
Charles Sumner had just given a speech condemning the pro-enslavement forces in Kansas. After the speech Congressman Preston Brooks attacked Sumner with a cane.
Due to this event congressmen start to bring weapons into the senate floor. -
Dred Scott v Sanford
Dred Scott, an enslaved person living in a free state, lost his case that argued that he should be a free person. He Stated that his owners had taken him into a free state. He was still an enslaved person because such individuals were to be considered
This decision aided North American 19th-century Black activists in their fight against enslavement, as they strengthened their efforts. -
Raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown had a plan to raid a arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia and arm slaves on the way and start a uprising. The plan didn’t work out because while capturing a building he got surrounded by militias and was eventually hanged for treason.
This event sparked more passion for growing Black activist movements that lead to open civil war. -
Election of 1860
In this election Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated southern Democrat Stephan A. Douglas. Even though Lincoln’s name wasn’t even on ten of the southern ballots he still won with 180 electoral college votes.
Due to Lincoln winning the election South Carolina and six other states seceded from the union one by one. -
Southern Secession
one month after Abraham Lincoln's Inauguration, 11 slaveholding states had seceded from the union. The first one to leave was South Carolina. After South Carolina left one by one 10 more states seceded from the union.
due to the secession the nation had been led into civil war against the seceded states. -
Shots fired a 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.
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.