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American Industrial Revolution
"The industrial revolution in the North, during the first few decades of the 19th century, brought about a machine age economy that relied on wage laborers, not slaves.Southerners made huge profits from cotton and slaves and fought a war to maintain them. Northerners did not need slaves for their economy and fought a war to free them." -
American Industrial Revolution
"The industrial revolution in the North, during the first few decades of the 19th century, brought about a machine age economy that relied on wage laborers, not slaves.Southerners made huge profits from cotton and slaves and fought a war to maintain them. Northerners did not need slaves for their economy and fought a war to free them." -
Creation of Cotton Gin
"Suddenly cotton became a lucrative crop and a major export for the South. However, because of this increased demand, many more slaves were needed to grow cotton and harvest the fields. Although Whitney’s invention only involved a few hundred kilograms of matter, it shaped the future of a nation and its people; it is rare that a single contrivance has such a profound social effect." -
Creation of Cotton Gin
"Suddenly cotton became a lucrative crop and a major export for the South. However, because of this increased demand, many more slaves were needed to grow cotton and harvest the fields. Although Whitney’s invention only involved a few hundred kilograms of matter, it shaped the future of a nation and its people; it is rare that a single contrivance has such a profound social effect." -
Louisiana Purchase
"The Louisiana Purchase was a big lead up to the Civil War in many ways. One way was that Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Province without Congress's approval." -
Louisiana Purchase
"The Louisiana Purchase was a big lead up to the Civil War in many ways. One way was that Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Province without Congress's approval." -
Second Great Awakening
Social reform prior to the Civil War came largely out of this new devotion to religion.Reforms took the shape of social movements for temperance, women’s rights, and the abolition of slavery -
Second Great Awakening
"Social reform prior to the Civil War came largely out of this new devotion to religion.Reforms took the shape of social movements for temperance, women’s rights, and the abolition of slavery." -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was a United States federal legislation that admitted Maine to the United States as a free state, simultaneously with Missouri as a slave state.n an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state -
Missouri Compromise
"The Missouri Compromise was meant to create balance between slave and non-slave states. With it, the country was equally divided between slave and free states. ... Thomas Jefferson predicted dividing the country this way would eventually lead the country into Civil War." -
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
"Although Turner’s plan to eliminate slavery proved unsuccessful in the short term, his insurrection served to increase tensions between both the northern and southern United States; leading to an outpouring of discontent over the issue of slavery that eventually culminated into the the Civil War." -
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
"Although Turner’s plan to eliminate slavery proved unsuccessful in the short term, his insurrection served to increase tensions between both the northern and southern United States; leading to an outpouring of discontent over the issue of slavery that eventually culminated into the the Civil War." -
Nullification Crisis (President Jackson)
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"The Nullification Crisis helped lead to the civil war because it boiled sectional tensions between the North and the South to the surface. For instance, economic differences made it possible for the South to become dependent on the North for manufactured goods." -
Nullification Crisis (President Jackson)
"The Nullification Crisis helped lead to the civil war because it boiled sectional tensions between the North and the South to the surface. For instance, economic differences made it possible for the South to become dependent on the North for manufactured goods." -
Mexican American War
"Texas gained its independence from Mexico in 1836. Initially, the United States declined to incorporate it into the union, largely because northern political interests were against the addition of a new slave state." -
California Gold Rush
"The California Gold Rush, Slavery, and the Civil War. ... The result was the largest migration in American history, along with bitter debate over the issue of slavery. California would eventually enter the Union as a free state, but not because its delegates thought slavery an abomination." -
Compromise of 1850
"The compromise admitted California as a free state and did not regulate slavery in the remainder of the Mexican cession all while strengthening the Fugitive Slave Act, a law which compelled Northerners to seize and return escaped slaves to the South." -
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
"The growing attitudes against slavery in the North, which had been reinforced by the content of Uncle Tom's Cabin, no doubt helped to secure the victory of Lincoln. It would be an exaggeration to say that Harriet Beecher Stowe's enormously popular novel directly caused the Civil War." -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
"The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was a huge catalyst in sending the nation to the Civil War. . This act reversed the Missouri Compromise and allowed slavery in the remainder of the original areas of the Louisiana Purchase. The balance of power shifted in the government and across the land." -
“Bleeding Kansas”
"The fighting that led the territory to be known as "Bleeding Kansas" accompanied political intrigue and fraud over the establishment of a constitution for the territory. "Bleeding Kansas" can mainly be said to have led to the Civil War because it led to the establishment of the Republican Party." -
Attack on Charles Sumner
""The beating nearly killed Sumner and it contributed significantly to the country's polarization over the issue of slavery. It has been considered symbolic of the "breakdown of reasoned discourse" and the use of violence that eventually led to the American Civil War." -
Dred Scott v Sanford
"The court case Dred Scott v. Sandford fueled tensions between the North and the South that eventually led to the American Civil War. Dred Scott was born into slavery." -
Raid on Harpers Ferry
"The plan was to take the town's federal armory and, ultimately, ignite a nationwide uprising against slavery. The raid failed, but six years later, Brown's dream was realized and slavery became illegal" -
Election of 1860
"The Constitutional Union Party was also new; 1860 was the first and only time the party ran a candidate for president. The results of the 1860 election pushed the nation into war." -
Southern Secession
"Secession precipitated the American Civil War. ... Four border states held slaves but remained in the Union.The Secession Crisis of late 1860 and early 1861 led to the Civil War when southern states seceded from the Union and declared themselves a separate nation, the Confederate States of America. "
