civil war

  • Industrialization in factories

    Industrialization in factories

    This is event is important because it led to new working opportunities, it also had new power sources.
  • Cotton gin

    Cotton gin

    This is important because this made slavery expand and when this was invented it made cotton easier to process.
  • U.S abolitionist

    U.S abolitionist

    These people were important to the civil war because they hated slavery and wanted it gone so they are trying to eradicate slavery. They also sent petitions out to the congress
  • Nat turner's rebellion

    Nat turner's rebellion

    This event is important because he was one of the first slave to take strike. He killed his whole slave owners family, him and other slaves killed slaver owners as well, this made the southern or slave owners angry. But eventually they were caught and hanged for treason.
  • Kansas Nebraska act

    Kansas Nebraska act

    This event is important because this act caused the U.S to create new territories and people who liked slavery and people who didn’t like slavery were voting in those new territories.
  • Dred Scott's decision

    Dred Scott's decision

    This event is important because Dred Scott was a slave who's freedom was taken away and he was tried at court. He was the first African American to be tried in the supreme court. His slave owners paid for his whole trial, and his case lasted for 11 years and he didn’t win his trial because other slave owners voted against him.
  • John Brown and Harper Ferry

    John Brown and Harper Ferry

    This event was important because he hated slavery so he seized and took over the U.S arsenal. This is one of the events leading to the civil war.
  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860

    This is event is important because Abraham Lincoln is elected and he doesn’t want to end slavery but he doesn’t want it spreading to western states that are free and he doesn’t want the union to secede.
  • Fort Sumter

    Fort Sumter

    This event is important because the first shots of the civil war were fired there and 86 men surrendered the fort.
  • Slave codes

    Slave codes

    This was important because this meant that slaves were only property and they were owned and they had no legal rights.