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Second great awakening
People renewed their social sense of importance of religion -
Creation of cotton gin
Eli Whitney creates the cotton gin to help clean cotton faster. This started a massive domestic slave trade -
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American Industrial Revolution
This was a change in the way consumer goods were made. Machines were now being used instead of the good being handmade. -
Louisiana purchase
Jefferson bought more land to expand slavery -
Missouri compromise
Missouri is able to be a slave state but Maine has to be a salve state -
Nat Turners Rebellion
Nat Turner led a slave rebellion and killed many white people -
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Nullification Crisis
Jackson put a tax in British goods and it made it more expensive for the south. -
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Mexican American war
Mexico was fighting to keep land but America ended up getting it after paying Mexico $15 million -
California gold rush
After gold was discovered many people went to California and it became a free state. -
Compromise of 1850
California is a free state but free states have to help return escaped slaves. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Stowe wrote uncle Toms cabin to show people what slavery was actually like. -
Kansas-Nebraska act
With this act Kansas and Nebraska got to pick and they decide to become slave states -
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Bleeding Kansas
A violent war broke out while deciding if Kansas should be a shave state or free state. -
Attack on Charles Sumner
After giving a speech criticizing slaveholders, Sumner almost got beat to death -
Dred Scott v Sanford
Dred Scott was a slave in a free state and the Supreme Court ruled against him. -
Raid on Harpers ferry
John Brown led a raid to end slavery but he got really injured and turned over to Virginia to be tried to treason -
Election of 1860
Lincoln wants to stop slavery and he won’t the most votes. -
Southern secession
The south wants to be on their own because they believed the power in Washington was against them. -
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Shots fired at Ft. Sumter
This was the official start to the civil war. Union troops lost and surrendered the fort to the confederate militia.
