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Second great awakening
a period of renewed social importance of religion -
Creation of cotton gin
Eli Whitney, created a machine that cleaned cotton of seeds very quickly. This led to the demand of more slaves in the south. -
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American Industrial Revolution
A time period where a change in the way consumer goods were made in America -
Louisiana purchase
America purchases the Louisiana territory France. This increases the land America now has and more land where people want slavery to spread to. -
Missouri compromise
a law where congress admitted Missouri to the us as a slave state and Maine as a free state -
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Nat turners rebellion
nat turner red a rebellion of slaves and they killed multiple white people. This angered slave owners in the south and caused them to make laws that hurt more slaves. -
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Nullification crisis
south Carolina disagreed with a tariff and wanted to become null and void -
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Mexican-American War
the war began because Texas became independent from Mexico and wanted to join the u.s, they then were accepted and Mexico became angry -
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California Gold Rush
gold was discovered in California, and a lot of people then moved there to find more of it -
Compromise of 1850
allowed California to be admitted as a free state and the admission of New Mexico Territory and Utah Territory with slavery was left to to the decision of the people in relation to Popular Sovereignty on Slavery -
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Toms Cabin
it’s an anti-slavery novel that greatly influenced Americans idea of slavery. -
Frederick Douglass 4th of July speech
a speech titled “what to the slave is the Fourth of July” delivered by Frederick Douglass -
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Bleeding Kansas
a time period in which pro slavery and anti slavery civilians caused numerous violent outbreaks in kansas -
Kansas-Nebraska act
the act repealed the Missouri compromise and created to more U.S states and these states were left to vote on wether or not to be slave states or free ones -
Attack on Charles sumner
a South Carolina representative named Preston brooks used a cane to beat Charles sumner in the senates chamber -
Dred Scott v sanford
Scott believed he should be a free man because his master died but the federal court ruled against him saying he was not an American citizen -
Raid on harpers ferry
John brown, slave abolitionist, led a slave revolt and took over an arsenal in virginia -
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln was running for president and was against the extension of slavery, this caused for him to not appear on ballots in 10 southern states -
Shots fired at Ft. 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 -
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Southern succession
This is the time where the southern states left the union and created the confederacy. They confederation then went to war with America.