The Sectional Crisis

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This timeline includes just some of the major events from the 1700s to the 1800s that contributed to sectional tensions. These events drew political limelight, encouraged violence, and overall are the reasons the Civil War occurred.
Penelope Fourquet
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The Sectional Crisis
  1. US Constitution
    1. Delegated the free states from the slave states
      1. 1787-1789
      2. Haitian Revolt
        1. Delegated the free parts of the Atlantic basin and the unfree parts
          1. 1791-1804
          2. Second Great Awakening
            1. Caused slavery to begin the process of becoming a main-stream political issue.
              1. 1795-1835
              2. Ely Whitney's Cotton Gin
                1. 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.
                  1. 1794
                  2. End of International Slave Trade
                    1. Aided in the North's cause. Informal showed the South who the government had begun to agree with.
                      1. 1808
                      2. Missouri Crisis
                        1. Allowed slavery to expand into land previously protected in the Louisiana Purchase
                          1. 1819
                          2. Cotton Revolution
                            1. Cotton once again increased value, and slave owners got more slave to get more profit.
                              1. 1820-1860
                              2. Vesey Revolt
                                1. Opened eyes to the horrors of slavery
                                  1. 1822
                                  2. Nat Turner Rebellion
                                    1. Caused tensions to increase as people approve or didnt approve of the rebellion
                                      1. 1831
                                      2. Mexican American War
                                        1. Discussion of the land won were had to determine if this land should be a free or unfree are
                                          1. 1846-1848
                                            1. Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
                                              1. Required runaway slaves, even in free states, to be returned home if found.
                                                1. 1850
                                                2. Uncle Tom's Cabin
                                                  1. Caused many to view the idea of slavery from a moral standpoint.
                                                    1. 1851-1852
                                                    2. Kansas-Nebraska Act
                                                      1. 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.
                                                        1. 1854
                                                        2. Dred Scott Case
                                                          1. Showed the government's plans of allowing slavery to spread
                                                            1. 1857
                                                            2. Harper's Ferry Raid
                                                              1. Increased difficulty to make peace between both sides. Encouraged violence.
                                                                1. 1859
                                                                2. Election of Abraham Lincoln
                                                                  1. 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.
                                                                    1. 1860
                                                                    2. Attack on Fort Summer
                                                                      1. 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.
                                                                        1. 1861
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