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Events leading up to the civil war.

By AidanMccarthy2020

  • Creation Of the Cotton Gin

    The cotton gin was an invention that helped to clean cotton faster, reducing the time to clean it by hours.

  • Louisiana Prurchase

    This was a time when America bought 827,000 miles of land from France.

  • Missouri Compromise

    In order to keep power balanced, Missouri was to be a slave state, and Maine a free one.

  • Nullification Crisis

    The nullification crisis was a feud between President Andrew Jackson, and South Carolina.

  • California Gold Rush

    There was gold discovered in California, and many people moved there.

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Toms cabin.

    The book told the events and treatment of slavery, and told people how they were really treated.

  • Bleeding Kansas

    This was a time when Kansas was fought over whether to be a slave or free state.

  • Dred Scott Vs Standford

    Although Dred Scott lived in free territory, the court said that he was still to be a slave.

  • Election of 1860

    Abraham Lincoln, a abolitionist, was elected and decided to get rid of slavery.

  • Shots fired at fort sumner

    Shots were fired at the fort, leading to the start of the civil war.