Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Sectional Tensions
- 1791
- 1807
- 1817
- 1822
- 1830s
- 1830s
- 1831
- 1845
- 1848
- 1850
- 1850
- 1852
- 1854
- 1857
- 1859
- 1860
- 1861
- Attack on Fort
Sumter: Started
the Civil War
- Election of Abraham
Lincoln: Caused the South
to secede
- Harpers Ferry
Raid: Inflamed the
white southerns
fears of slave
rebellion
- Dred Scott Case:
Incensed
abolitionists
- Kansas and Nebraska
Act: Divided Northern
and Southern sections
of political parties
- Uncle Tom's Cabin:
Southerns were
outraged by
description of slavery
- Eli Whitney's
Cotton Gin: Helped
grow slavery in the
South
- Fugitive Slave Act of 1850:
Produced outrage in the
North that caused them to
want slavery banned in the
West
- US Constitution: Helped
cool tensions the Texas
and Florida admissions
- Mexican American War:
Division over whether new
land would be slave or free
- Nat Turner
Rebellion: Virginians
enacted new slave
codes
- Second Great Awakening:
Contributed to regional
animosity between North
and South
- Cotton Revolution:
Increased the need
for slaves
- Vesey Revolt: New laws
to keep slaves from
meeting in groups
- Missouri Crisis:
Between pro and
anti-slavery factions
- End of International Slave trade:
South still wanted slaves.
- Haitian Revolt:
Splintered Atlantic
basin to free and
slave zones