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Creation of the Cotton Gin
A machine that was created to make a large production of cotton. Caused the creation of more factories mostly in the north. -
American Industrial Revolution
It was a time in which there was major innovation in the United States. -
Second Great Awakening
It was a very large religious revival. It’s also know as a, “Christian revival movement” -
Louisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson went against everything he campaigned for and purchased a large about of land in the west. -
Missouri Compromise
It relegated slavery in the western states. It ended up separating the north and south and where slavery is legal. -
Nat Tuners Rebellion
A slave rebellion that Virginia, it was led by Nate Turner. Rebel’s slaves killed around 55 people it also defeated within s few dates. But turner hid out for around 2 months. -
Nullification Crisis (President Jackson)
A political crisis durning the election of Andrew Jackson. South Carolina deflated that they believed that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional. Which they thought “null and void within the sovereign boundaries of the state”. -
Mexican American War
America wanted to expand westward and claimed Mexican territory without their consent. This lead to a war and caused the us to not count Texas as part of the country because it would upset the balance of free and not free slave states. -
California Gold Rush
It was a gold rush that was founded by James Marshal. It
caused 300,000 people to move to California. This caused a
large growth in population for the state. It caused acceleration in large growing population,“the Native American population’s decline from disease, starvation and California Genocide.” -
Compromise of 1850
It caused for the end of the four year argument between free and slave states due to the Mexican-American War. It established Texas boarders. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Was the second best selling book of the century. It “vividly dramatized the experience of slavery”. If caused for people see what slavery was like not the nice picture white southerners painted. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
A territorial act that caused for the creation of Kansas and Nebraska’s boarders. It caused for a stoke in tensions over slavery. -
“Bleeding Kansas”
Was a “series of violent civil confrontations” it was over the debate of if Kansas should legalize slavery. -
Dried Scott v Sanford
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 Sumner
Charles summers was a politician who was the senator of Massachusetts. He was beaten by Preston Brooks with a walking cane. Charles was an abolitionist who was strongly against slavery -
Raid on Harpers Ferry
Was a raid lead by abolitionist John Brown. It’s purpose was “to initiate a slave revolt in Southern States by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry”. This just the star of what was going to be coming in the civil war. -
Southern Secession
South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas seceded from the Union a month before Lincoln was inaugurated. -
Election of 1860
it was the election which Abraham Lincoln was victorious against Stephany Douglas,John Breckinridge, and John Bell. Lincoln ended up resolving the civil war. -
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.
