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Creation of the Cotton Gin
It was a machine that was created to make it much easier to separate cotton from the leaves and thorns etc from the cotton right after it was picked -
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The Second Great Awakening
A religious revival that a lot of religions regained popularity. many churches gained many population during this event that skyrocket the amount of people doing religious actiuvities. -
Louisiana Purchase
This event was when the north and the south basically argued over which states should be slave states and which ones shouldn’t. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an event in which the north Missouri border would be the border between slave states to the south and free states to the north. The line stretched as far as America did. -
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Industrial Revolution
The north made many machines that gave them advantages over the south. The north was able to make railroads and many buildings and became more complex than the south. -
Nat Turners Rebellion
This event was a rebellion of enslaved people that stopped working and it was a very violent rebellion. It killed around 60 people and almost all of them were white. -
Nullification crisis
This event was the first main event that had tensions between the north and the south. This was on of the big parts in the starting of the civil war -
Mexican American War
This event was big because when the United States won the war, they had to split the new states between slave and non slave states. The war was very deadly and lasted for a few years -
California Gold Rush
This event sent thousands of Americans to California because they wanted to get rich. An estimated 300,000 people from across the world came to California for a chance to get rich -
Compromise of 1850
This event was big because all slave trade was abolished in D.C. this was a big step for the north for a polishing slavery across the entire United States -
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
This book was a huge event. It was about slavery and how bad it was for enslaved people. It changed how many people thought of slavery and their perspectives on it -
Frederick Douglass gives July 4th Speech
His speech was a big step forward to get read of slavery. But doing this speech angered the south as now even the president had a view on slavery to get read of it. -
Kansas- Nebraska act
This act repealed the Missouri Compromise and some people were furious. This act was the cause of a future event called Bleeding Kansas -
Bleeding Kansas
this event was a series of violent wars in Kansas territory. The war was over if it should be a slave or free state -
Attack On Charles Sumner
This was a fight in the Senate when Charles Sumner did a speech about how bad slavery was. An angry southerner did not like this and attacked him with a crowbar -
Dred Scott v Stanford
This event was where the United States Constitution chose to have people of African decent not be able to become a citizen in the United States -
Raid on Harpers Ferry
John brown did a slave revolt and took over the ferry as a protest to end slavery -
Election of 1860
This election turned the US into war because of what happened. The new Republican Party ran for president for only the second time. Lincoln fasvored no slavery as well so the south hated this -
Southern Succession
This was the main beginning of the civil War. As both the north and the souths tensions have peaked and all the past events have led to this war -
Shots fired at fort Sumter
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.