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The Second Great Awakening
It was a period of “renewed” social importance of religion. Numerous people begin to convert to different sects of Protestant Christianity.
They wanted people to live life free of sin, and believed that all souls are equal in heaven. There were numerous abolitionists. -
The Creation of Cotton Gin
It was the use that boosted the Industrial Revolution that would quickly clean the cotton that the enslaved people would place in. It quickly spread throughout and it expanded, and increased more enslaved people to pick the cotton. This increased the tension in America because it probably increased the slavery rebellion and slavery tensions in America. The cotton gin increased the slave labor in America since cotton was a profitable crop. -
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Louisiana Purchase
Frances controlled the Louisiana territory which America bought their land for $15 million. They wanted to expand further more in the United States. The purchase expanded slavery in the United States, which in those times, it created state tensions when creation of Westward Expansion. It was the creation of the Compromise of 1820. -
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The Industrial Revolution
Due to the cotton gin, it made cleaning cotton easier, and increased the demand from the machines. It was a change in the way consumer goods are made, it was no longer being manually made, but now it is now made by mass production using machines. It created tension among themselves by the large working class, between workers and factory owners. They began to go on strikes and demand safer working conditions and equal pay. -
Missouri Compromise
Missouri wanted to become a slave state in 1820, until then, there were an equal amount of free states and slave states. If they allow Missouri to become a state, it’ll disrupt the balance. There was tension that allowing Missouri to become a state would disrupt balance, and the federal government didn’t want that. It could only be reached if Missouri be a slave state and while Maine is a free state. There were tensions in the states of deciding which states to be free or slave. -
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Nat Turner’s rebellion was a group of enslaved people in Virginia, led by Nat Turner. The rebels killed white people mostly personally. Nat Turner destroyed the myth of happy slaves, and increased the tensions of slave rebellions in the states, making people uneasy. It led later that Abraham Lincoln promised enslaved people freedom if they fought in the Civil War. -
Nullification Crisis
The US Congress passed the Tariff of 1828, which would put on tax on imported British Goods. Which would help the Northern economy if people would instead buy the Northern instead of the British goods. This angers the Southern States because they only grew agricultural products. The Southern States did not think it was fair. They declared it was a right to not follow a law of Congress if they didn’t want to. Jackson was against nullification. -
Dred Scott v Sanford
Dred Scott and his wife filed a lawsuit for their freedom against Emerson, in which one can sue any person of any color for any wrongful deeds or enslavements. Dred won the case at first, but the Supreme Court was against Sanford. Which means the Congress had no power to prevent slavery from spreading. Eventually he got his freedom but the impact of the Dred Scott vs Sanford enraged the abolitionists who saw the Supreme Court’s ruling as a way to stop debate about slavery in the territory -
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Mexican American War
The U.S annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered Mexican territory. Most of its citizens in the Republic of Texas wanted to be annexed by the United States. The politics inside of the United States were preventing the annexation of Texas since Texas would’ve been a slave state, which would upset the balance. Mexican forces attacked U.S. forces and the Congress declared war. The United States pays Mexico $15 million. -
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California Gold Rush
James Marshall discovered gold, the word quickly spreads and started the gold rush. It became one of the greatest mass migrations in American history. Over 40,000 people travelled. Many southerners thought that California would become a slave state, however California outlaws slavery in state constitution, many southerners think it is a direct attack on southern way of life. They question if the south should remain part of the union. -
Compromise of 1850
The Fugitive Slave Act and was a slave trade in Washington D.C., which was abolished While also California entered as a free-state.It stopped a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories that was taken in the Mexican–American War. The Compromise of 1850 played a major role in postponing the American Civil War. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
While Frederick Douglass travelled around, Douglass gave a speech, commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Douglass spoke from a former enslaved point of view, and used the Declaration of Independence to urge the white people to change their view and fight against slavery. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It was an act that repealed the Missouri Compromise, creating two new territories. It also allowed for popular sovereignty. During it, it created a violent uprising commonly known as “Bleeding Kansas”, since there were numerous abolitionists and pro-slavery swarming in the territories to vote -
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Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas were episodes of violent civil confrontations in Kansas. There were outbreaks of violence between the pro-slavery, and anti-slavery. There were struggles of debates whether the future of slavery in the United States, and it was one of the key moments that that led to the Civil War. Since the Congress signed the law in 1854, it gave them the right to decide if they should ban slavery or permit slavery. -
Attack on Charles Sumner
In the United States Senate, when the representative Preston Brooks, who was a pro-slavery democrat from South Carolina, used a walking a walking cane to attack Senator. The beating almost left the Senator in a near-death state and it immensely contributed the country’s view of slavery. It was the use of violence that led the Civil War. -
Raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown was an abolitionist who decided to travel to Kansas with his sons to fight against proslavery forces. Firstly, the proslavery men raided an abolitionist town and he wanted revenge. So his son blasted three cabins up and then proceeded to kill five men with swords. Wounded John Brown couldn’t make it and got executed for treason. Brown’s raid inspired to make any further more between North and South nearly impossible, which probably made the Civil War. -
Election of 1860
There were voters and Lincoln won the electoral votes, the North had more control of the electoral votes than the South, that led Lincoln dominating the votes. Although Lincoln's name didn’t even show up in the Southern States, he still won some of the Southern state votes. It deepens the view on slavery and state’s rights for both North and the South. Then, the Confederate Army fired on Fort Sumter which initiated the Civil War. -
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. Unlike previous acts of violence, this was the first time violence broke out between organized military troops. Fighting in the Civil War would continue for 4 more years after this event. -
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Southern Secession
After the election of Abraham Lincoln, and elected for president, pro-secessionists found justification for changing or abolishing a government and adding a new one in the Declaration of Independence. During the inauguration, the Confederate opened fire, and which, started the Civil War. The people had to make a decision to go with the Confederate or the Union.