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The Industrial Revolution
it was a time when they made and did a lot of stuff that really helped the United States. -
Second Great Awakening
it was where people would go to places and talk about the lord and mostly African Americans because when they found that out they had faith and that god would be there for them basically. -
Creation of Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney made a machine that was easier to clean cotton -
Louisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson made a decision to make a purchase of land. -
Missouri Compromise
it was a time when Missouri was trying to become a state. -
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
a slave that wanted to kill owners of slaves and free the slaves but his plan failed and he was killed. -
Nullification Crisis (President Jackson)
when south Carolina wasn't paying their taxes for the north because they don't do anything for them. not to sure about this one. -
Mexican American War
It was a time when the US wanted Texas but the Mexicans had the territory first but the Americans wanted it so they had a war -
California Gold Rush
It was a time when a lot of gold was found in california and a bunch of people moved there. -
Compromise of 1850
It was when the slave states and the non-slave states had a big argument about what states should be slave and non slave states. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
it was a person who wrote a story that was like was a perspective of a slave. more about it on my google doc hw. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This was the purchase of Kansas and Nebraska -
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“Bleeding Kansas”
This is a point of history when they were figuring out if kansas was going to be a slave state or a non slave state -
Attack on Charles Sumner
they killed a guy name Charles sumner because he was pro slavery. -
Dred Scott v Sanford
He was a man who got shipped to a different place to be a slave but that place that he was in was a slave free state so he thought he could be free but then alot of stuff happened in court and then he was not free anymore. -
Raid on Harpers Ferry
It was were this guy was trying to raid places and take money and kill slave owners and free slaves but i did not last long because people later killed him. -
election of 1860
that was when Abraham Lincoln was elected president more info on google doc -
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. -
Southern Secession
i dont know if we learned about this but i think it was one of the bigger things that caused the civil war that's what i read on the internet.
