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People renewed their social sense of importance of religion
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Eli Whitney creates the cotton gin to help clean cotton faster. This started a massive domestic slave trade
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This was a change in the way consumer goods were made. Machines were now being used instead of the good being handmade.
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Jefferson bought more land to expand slavery
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Missouri is able to be a slave state but Maine has to be a salve state
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Nat Turner led a slave rebellion and killed many white people
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Jackson put a tax in British goods and it made it more expensive for the south.
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Mexico was fighting to keep land but America ended up getting it after paying Mexico $15 million
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After gold was discovered many people went to California and it became a free state.
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California is a free state but free states have to help return escaped slaves.
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Stowe wrote uncle Toms cabin to show people what slavery was actually like.
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With this act Kansas and Nebraska got to pick and they decide to become slave states
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A violent war broke out while deciding if Kansas should be a shave state or free state.
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After giving a speech criticizing slaveholders, Sumner almost got beat to death
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Dred Scott was a slave in a free state and the Supreme Court ruled against him.
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John Brown led a raid to end slavery but he got really injured and turned over to Virginia to be tried to treason
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Lincoln wants to stop slavery and he won’t the most votes.
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The south wants to be on their own because they believed the power in Washington was against them.
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This was the official start to the civil war. Union troops lost and surrendered the fort to the confederate militia.
