Sectional Crisis Wk 13 As2

1820's
1. 1810's
  1. 1800's
    1. 1790's
      1. 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.
      2. 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.
      3. 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
    2. 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.
  2. 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
2. 1830's
  1. 1840's
    1. 1850's
      1. 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.
      2. 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
    2. The Cotton Revolution 1840's was a time of capitalism, panic, stress, and competition. Planters expanded their lands, purchased slaves, extended lines of credit
      1. 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.
  2. 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
3. A planned rebellion of slaves in Charleston led by Denmark Vesey in 1822Increased fear and determination to hold onto their slaves

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