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The Second Great Awakening
The second great awakening was a span of time where several religious revivals would occur, mainly in the northwest. At these revivals, people would perform and preach their religion and try to influence others. -
Creation of the cotton gin
Eli Whitney who was an inventor, created a cotton gin which made it easier to separate cotton from the bushes and leaves and thorns etc. making it clean. -
The Louisiana Purchas
Thomas Jefferson who was the president at the time, had bought some territory from Great Britain that was in the U.S while the U.S was gradually starting to migrate westward. -
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American Industrial Revolution in the U.S (Time Varies)
So it wasn’t a war but rather the beginning of using machines in factory’s and producing certain goods and the economy min the north started to benefit from using different ways of developing the economy. -
The Missouri Compromise
It was a line expanding through Missouri through the 36th parallel competing halves: free slaves, non free slaves. -
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turners rebellion was he and a group of slaves marched onto several plantations and killed the slave owners and the people inside in hopes of gathering more followers to end slavery. -
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Nullification Crisis (President Jackson)
It was a confrontation between the federal government and the state of South Carolina on certain tariffs that were set. -
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The Mexican-American War
It was a war fought between Mexico and the U.S due to the annexation of Texas and whether it should belong to the United States or Mexico. -
The California Gold Rush of 1849
When gold was discovered by James W. Marshall at a mill, it sparked a massive migration of people starting to move westward. It is estimated that around 300,000 migrated into California in hopes to striking rich. -
Compromise of 1850
After a dispute over whether or not California should be added to the U.S as a slave or free state, it was finally decided that it would be admitted into the U.S as a free state. Also, the people were left to decide for themselves whether or not Utah and New Mexico territory was free or slave states. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a book that explained and depicted the horrors and problems with slavery and how slaves were treated as property, rather than being treated as people. -
Frederick Douglass gives 4th of July speech
It was a speech given by Frederick Douglass in which he talked about how America had not been living up to the term “All men are created equal” and simply the things that they said they would be doing in The Declaration of Independence. -
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Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was a period of outbreaks of guerilla warfare between anti-slavery forces and pro-slavery forces after the founding of the new territory of Kansas in 1854. -
The Kansas-Nebraska act
It simply allowed each territory to decide on the issue of slavery on the basis of popular
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Attack on Charles Sumner
In the Chamber of the United States Senate, Representative Preston Brooks who was a pro-slavery Democrat from South Carolina used a walking cane and nearly beat Charles Sumner (who was an abolitionist Republican from Massachusetts) to death. -
Scott v Sandford
It was a case deciding whether or not Dred Scott would be given freedom even though he had resided in a free state where slavery was prohibited. The Supreme Court ruled against him 7-2 which meant that he was not entitled to his freedom even though he was living in a free state where slavery was not allowed. -
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Raid on Harper's Ferry
It was an effort by abolitionist John Brown, to start a slave revolt when he and a group of his supporters went on to a ferry names Harpers ferry, and had captured and killed some of the people on board the ferry. -
Election of 1860
Tensions were at its highest between the south and north when a war was at its closest and they were in the midst of an election. They decided to elect Abraham Lincoln in hopes of leading them to a victory in the war and hopes of uniting the south and the north again as one. -
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Southern Secession
This was the beginning of the bloodiest American war in its history, The American Civil War. It started when Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter and then just 34 hours later, Union forces had surrendered. This is considered the beginning of The Civil War. -
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Shots fired at Fort 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.