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Sectional Crisis Wk 13 As2
- 1820's
- 1810's
- 1800's
- 1790's
- 1780's
- U.S. Constitution
1787- The U.S.
Constitution
declared 'all men
are created equal'
which led to
women and
African Americans
demanding their
own rights.
- U.S. Constitution
1787- The U.S.
Constitution
declared 'all men
are created equal'
which led to
women and
African Americans
demanding their
own rights.
- The Second Great Awakening (1790) further sharpened
political differences by promoting schisms within the
major Protestant churches, schisms that also became
increasingly sectional in nature.A series of religious
revivals starting in 1801, based on Methodism and
Baptism. Stressed a religious philosophy of salvation
through good deeds and tolerance for all Protestant sects.
The revivals attracted women, Blacks, and Native
Americans.
- Cotton Gin
invented by Eli
Whitney in 1793. it
removed seeds
from cotton fibers.
now cotton could
be processed
quickly and
cheaply. results:
more cotton is
grown and more
slaves are needed
for more acres of
cotton fields
- 1780's
- Haitian Revolt
(1791- 1804) helped
splinter the Atlantic
basin into clear
zones of free and
unfree, shattering
the longstanding
assumption that
African-descended
slaves could not
also be rulers.
- 1790's
- The international slave
trade was abolished in
1808 after Thomas
Jefferson had signed a bill
that prohibited the
importation of of slaves
into the United States on
March 3, 1807
- 1800's
- 1830's
- 1840's
- 1850's
- 1860's
- Election of Abraham
Lincoln 1860-Lincoln,
the Republican
candidate, won
because the
Democratic party was
split over slavery.
- Attack on Fort Sumter 1861- Was
attacked in April, 1861, by
Confederate soldiers marking the
beginning of the Civil War.
- Attack on Fort Sumter 1861- Was
attacked in April, 1861, by
Confederate soldiers marking the
beginning of the Civil War.
- Election of Abraham
Lincoln 1860-Lincoln,
the Republican
candidate, won
because the
Democratic party was
split over slavery.
- Fugitive Slave Act
of 1850- a law
that made it a
crime to help
runaway slaves;
allowed for the
arrest of escaped
slaves in areas
where slavery
was illegal and
required their
return to
slaveholders.
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
1852- powerful novel
that made Americans
aware of the harsh and
inhumane conditions
of slavery and put the
country on the road to
civil war.
- Missouri Crisis 1854-
Missouri admitted as
a slave state, Maine
as a free state,
slavery banned
north of Missouri's
southern border.
Were worried that
balance of slave and
free states in Senate
would be destroyed.
- Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854- Created Nebraska and
Kansas as states and gave the people in those
territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state
through popular sovereignty.
- Dred Scott Case 1857- Supreme Court case that
decided US Congress did not have the power to
prohibit slavery in federal territories and slaves, as
private property, could not be taken away without
due process
- Harper's Ferry Raid 1859- John Brown's
scheme to invade the South with
armed slaves, backed by sponsoring,
northern abolitionists
- Harper's Ferry Raid 1859- John Brown's
scheme to invade the South with
armed slaves, backed by sponsoring,
northern abolitionists
- Dred Scott Case 1857- Supreme Court case that
decided US Congress did not have the power to
prohibit slavery in federal territories and slaves, as
private property, could not be taken away without
due process
- Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854- Created Nebraska and
Kansas as states and gave the people in those
territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state
through popular sovereignty.
- Missouri Crisis 1854-
Missouri admitted as
a slave state, Maine
as a free state,
slavery banned
north of Missouri's
southern border.
Were worried that
balance of slave and
free states in Senate
would be destroyed.
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
1852- powerful novel
that made Americans
aware of the harsh and
inhumane conditions
of slavery and put the
country on the road to
civil war.
- 1860's
- The Cotton Revolution 1840's
was a time of
capitalism, panic,
stress, and
competition. Planters
expanded their lands,
purchased slaves,
extended lines of
credit
- The conclusion of the
Mexican War (1846-
1848 gave rise to the
1848 Treaty of
Guadeloupe Hidalgo.
The treaty infuriated
antislavery leaders in
the United States. The
spoils gained from the
Mexican War were
impressive, and it was
clear they would help
expand slavery.
- The conclusion of the
Mexican War (1846-
1848 gave rise to the
1848 Treaty of
Guadeloupe Hidalgo.
The treaty infuriated
antislavery leaders in
the United States. The
spoils gained from the
Mexican War were
impressive, and it was
clear they would help
expand slavery.
- 1850's
- Slave rebellion that took
place in Virginia 1831 increased
tensions and fears that if
slavery could not expand
into territories eventually
the national government
would be in the hands of
the North & slavery would
be outlawed & there would
be a large free African
America population
- 1840's
- A planned rebellion
of slaves in
Charleston led by
Denmark Vesey in
1822Increased fear
and determination to
hold onto their slaves
- 1810's
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