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events lead to the Civil War

By Regina Liu
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    The second Great Awakening

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Great_Awakening
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    western expansion and reform

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    The trail of tears

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

    Tariffs threaten national unity.
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    Mexican American War

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    discovery of gold in California

  • The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/guadalupe-hidalgo/
  • Women fought for their right

    Women fought for their right

    Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized a women's rights convention.
  • Henry David Thoreau Cicil Disobedience

    Henry David Thoreau Cicil Disobedience

    http://www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/thoreau-and-civil-disobedience
  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850

    California became a free state. It threatened the balance between free and slave in congress.
  • The Kansas-Nebraska Act

    The Kansas-Nebraska Act

    increased opposition to slave. Allow antislavery and proslavery to flock to Kansas.
  • James Buchanan ran for the president

    James Buchanan ran for the president

    People opposites the extension of slavery gained new popularity.
  • Dred Scott v. Sandford was issued by court

    Dred Scott v. Sandford was issued by court

    widened the divisions between North and South

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

    enraged southerners.
  • southern California seceded from the union

    southern California seceded from the union

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

  • Kansas entered the union as a free state