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Creation of cotton gin
A machine that helped clean the cotton that was picked in a faster speed. -
American Industrial Revolution
This was when there was a new way of making things that made things easier and faster. -
Second Great awakening
It was a very large religious revival. It’s also know as a, “Christian revival movement“. -
Luisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson bought a large amount of land in the west -
Missouri Compromise
It was a line that divide the north and south where slavery was legal in the south but not in the north. -
Nat Turners Rebellion
A slave that killed around 55 white men -
Nullification Crisis
South Carolina opposed the US federal Government in 1828 and ended up helping divided the north and south -
Mexican American War
The US wanted more land so they tried to steal land from Mexico without consent. Texas did not count as a US state because it would ruin the equality of free and slave states. -
California Gold rush
Gold was found in California that cause 300,000 people to move there. -
Compromise of 1850
It caused the end of the four year argument between free and slave states due to the Mexican-American War. It also established Texas borders. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
This book showed truly how bad slavery was. It was nothing like how the southerners told people. -
Bleeding Kansas
It was a very violent time all over if Kansas should be a free or slave state. -
Kansas Nebraska act
An act that caused the creation of Kansas and Nebraska borders. -
Dred Scott v Stanford
It was a Supreme Court case which lead to the verdict that American American people do not have the rights the constitution provided. Only White American citizens had the rights of the constitution -
Attack on Charles Summer
Charles summers was a politician who was the senator of Massachusetts and was an abolitionist who was strongly against slavery -
Raid on Harper Ferry
Was a raid lead by abolitionist John Brown. This was the start of what was going to be coming in the civil war. -
Southern Seccession
South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas seceded from the Union a month before Lincoln was inaugurated. -
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln was elected president against Stephany Douglas, John Breckinridge, and John Bell. Lincoln ended up resolving the civil war. -
Shot 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 bystanders the South Carolina militia. Union troops lost and surrendered the fort to the Confederate militia
