Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Sectional Crisis
- US Constitution
- Delegated the free states from
the slave states
- 1787-1789
- Haitian Revolt
- Delegated the free parts of the Atlantic
basin and the unfree parts
- 1791-1804
- Second Great Awakening
- Caused slavery to begin the process of
becoming a main-stream political issue.
- 1795-1835
- Ely Whitney's Cotton Gin
- Caused cotton to gain popularity and profit
value. This would lead to slave owners gaining
more land, and therefore needing more slaves
to work the field.
- 1794
- End of International Slave Trade
- Aided in the North's cause. Informal showed the South who the
government had begun to agree with.
- 1808
- Missouri Crisis
- Allowed slavery to expand into land
previously protected in the Louisiana
Purchase
- 1819
- Cotton Revolution
- Cotton once again increased value, and slave
owners got more slave to get more profit.
- 1820-1860
- Vesey Revolt
- Opened eyes to the horrors of slavery
- 1822
- Nat Turner Rebellion
- Caused tensions to increase as people approve
or didnt approve of the rebellion
- 1831
- Mexican American War
- Discussion of the land won were had to
determine if this land should be a free or
unfree are
- 1846-1848
- Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
- Required runaway slaves, even in free states, to be
returned home if found.
- 1850
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Caused many to view the idea of slavery
from a moral standpoint.
- 1851-1852
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Allowed for a states that were once free to become slave
states. Caused slavery to be brought into the political
limelight and furthered the divide.
- 1854
- Dred Scott Case
- Showed the government's plans of
allowing slavery to spread
- 1857
- Harper's Ferry Raid
- Increased difficulty to make peace between
both sides. Encouraged violence.
- 1859
- Election of Abraham Lincoln
- His stance on slavery made itself known in his
presidency. His later attempts to stop rebellions would
take partial credit to the cause of the Civil War.
- 1860
- Attack on Fort Summer
- This attack and the response men that Abraham Lincoln sent to try and stop the
rebellion would lead to the continuation of fighting and deaths. This huge fight
involving thousands of men would begin to noramlize fighting and waging war.
- 1861