events lead to the Civil War

The second Great Awakening

Period: Dec 24, 1790 to Dec 25, 1820

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Great_Awakening

western expansion and reform

Period: Dec 24, 1829 to Dec 25, 1859

The trail of tears

Period: Dec 24, 1831 to Dec 25, 1838

Native Americans were forced to leave. It caused suffering and death.

Nullification crisis

Period: Dec 24, 1832 to Dec 25, 1833

Tariffs threaten national unity.

Mexican American War

Period: Apr 25, 1846 to Feb 3, 1848

discovery of gold in California

Period: Jan 24, 1848 to Dec 25, 1855

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Feb 2, 1848

https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/guadalupe-hidalgo/

Women fought for their right

Dec 24, 1848

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized a women's rights convention.

Henry David Thoreau Cicil Disobedience

Dec 24, 1849

http://www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/thoreau-and-civil-disobedience

Compromise of 1850

Dec 24, 1850

California became a free state. It threatened the balance between free and slave in congress.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

May 30, 1854

increased opposition to slave. Allow antislavery and proslavery to flock to Kansas.

James Buchanan ran for the president

Mar 4, 1857

People opposites the extension of slavery gained new popularity.

Dred Scott v. Sandford was issued by court

Mar 6, 1857

widened the divisions between North and South

John Brown set his plan to action, raided the federal arsenal.

Oct 16, 1859

enraged southerners.

southern California seceded from the union

Dec 24, 1860

Stressed each state's independence and guaranteed the protection of slavery.

Kansas entered the union as a free state

Jan 29, 1861