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America, especially the north, created tons of new factories and other means of producing products in faster and more efficient ways, and this started the industrial revolution.
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Many people conjugated in the wilderness for a religious awakening, basically an event to convince people to join christiantity.
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Eli Whitney created a machine called a cotton gin that helped in making cotton.
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A land deal that resulted in Thomas Jefferson buying about 827,000 miles of land west of the Mississippi river
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A compromise to try and save peace between slave states and free states.
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Nat Turner led a gang of black people and white abolitionists in killing about 55 pro-slavery people.
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South Carolina tried to avoid the state Tariffs of 1832, and this led Andrew Jackson into the Nullification Crisis.
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Complications around where exactly the border is between Mexico and Texas.
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People learn there’s gold in California, so everyone rushes to the west coast to see if they can get themselves any.
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The compromise of 1850 was basically 5 bills passed to attempt at keeping slave states and free states at peace with each other.
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Harriet Stowe writes a story regarding a black man’s experience in slavery and it catches many people’s attention.
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This act allows the people of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether to be a slave state or a free state.
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Bleeding Kansas is the name of the time when many abolitionists in Kansas were attacking and threatening pro-slavery politicians all over Kansas. 55 people died
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Preston Brooks, an anti-abolitionist, attacks Charles Sumner, an abolitionist, with a walking cane.
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The supreme court decides that under the Constitution, no african americans can be american citizens.
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John Brown organizes a slave revolt in which him and about 22 people took over an arsenal.
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Abraham Lincoln wins the election of 1860.
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This is basically another name for the Civil War. The north wins and slavery is abolished in the whole country!
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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.