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The American Revolution was a political and social rebellion that leads to the rise of escalating discontent among citizens of Great Britain's thirteen North American colonies and the british colonies, where it symbolized the Government.

This event led to the Civil War because America would not be their own country if it were not for this war.

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At the end of the American Revolutionary War, Great Britain officially handed over the area to the United States, nearly three months after the Treaty of Paris was signed. This was formed from the United States' unorganized western territory.

This even leaded to the Civil War since it is was what set out the process for territories to become states and it was the first and only federal anti-slavery policy pre-Civil War.

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The Northwest Ordinance presented forming 3-5 new states from the North Western territory, which was officially incorporated with the Ordinance of 1787. This guaranteed civil liberties within the new territories but prohibited slavery. Pro-slavery Southerners supported the Ordinance because they expected the new states to be populated by white settlers from the South and their slaves.

This was event was important to the leading of the Civil War since it created a new piece of land that was anti-slavery, resulting in the abolition of slavery.

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At the United States Constitutional Convention (1787), delegates from the Northern and Southern states reached a compromise agreement that three-fifths of the number of slaves would be considered for direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.

Since this trade, a slave would not be equal to an American citizen, resulting in the Civil War. Slave holders have been using their enslaved people to gain greater voice in government.

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A machine that efficiently and simply separates cotton fibers from seeds, allowing for much higher productivity than manual cotton separation

This event leaded to the Civil War because this machine was created to try and reduce slavery. Since this was a faster alternative than handpicking, it raised the standards towards slaves which increased slave labor to pick more cotton.

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The French controlled the vast area util Thomas Jefferson negotiated to buy the area for $15 million for approximately 827k square miles of land. The Louisiana Territory stretched from the Mississippi River to the East of the Rocky Mountains in the West and from the Gulf of Mexico in the South to the Canadian border in the North.

This purchase led to the Civil War since it expanded the land from the thirteen colonies to the northwest.

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This act, signed into law by President George Washington, was an important step toward the abolition of the international slave trade. It made it illegal to transport slaves from the United States to any foreign location or country. It also prohibited American citizens from outfitting a ship for the purpose of importing slaves.

This event was important leading to the Civil War because the Southerners to have more labor done. With this now being illegal angerend ones who believed in slavery.

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In 1819, the United States and Spain signed a treaty that ceded Florida to the United States.

This event helped lead to the Civil War because it defined the border between the United States and New Spain.

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Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state, while Maine was admitted as a free state. This compromise was a piece of federal legislation enacted by the United States that put an end to northern attempts to permanently prohibit the spread of slavery.

This compromise was one of  many events that ultimately caused the Civil War because it avoided further escalation of tensions between the South and the North while states were admitted to the Union.

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Idea believed the United States to expand its borders to the Pacific Ocean and beyond by God.

The philosophy drove territorial expansion and was used to justify the forced relocation of Native Americans and other groups. As new states were admitted to the Union, the issue of slavery became more pressing, resulting in the outbreak of the Civil War.

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Texas joined the union as the 28th state as a slave state on December 29, 1845. On March 2, 1836, the Republic of Texas proclaimed independence from the Republic of Mexico. The same year, it applied for annexation to the United States, but the Secretary of State denied it.

This event is an important part of the leadings to the Civil War because it added another big state to the union as a slave state.

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To settle the boundary dispute, the United States and Britain signed the Oregon Treaty in 1846. This Oregon Territory included parts of modern-day Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, and Montana, as well as parts of British Columbia, which is now a Canadian province.

This made a significant contribution to the Civil War because it was one of the first successes of Manifest Destiny, the belief that American settlers had the right to overcome and command North America.

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The Mexican Cession was the land that Mexico ceded to the United States at the end of the Mexican War. It included California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo acquired this land in 1848.

This event was another of many that helped lead to the Civil War because the effect on the issue of slavery as well as the focus of sectionalism in the United States. This fueled sectionalism and the desire of the Southern section to secede from the union.

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This event was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The discovery of gold drew approximately 300,000 people from the rest of the United States to California. The sudden influx of gold into the money supply reenergized the American economy, and California's rapid population growth allowed it to expand rapidly.

The California Gold Rush led to the Civil War because in late 1849, California applied to become a free state. The Gold Rush then forced the nation to confront the contentious issue of slavery once more.

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The 1850 Compromise has been comprised of five bills that strived to resolve differences over enslavement in new lands introduced to the Union. On September 20, 1850, the United States Congress outlawed slavery in the District of Columbia as part of the Compromise of 1850.

This event led the Civil War because it put an end to the slave trade in Washington, D.C., symbolizing liberty and freedom for all in the United States.

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The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 mandated that captives be brought back to their owners even if those that fled to a free territory. The act furthermore made the federal government responsible for locating, relocating, and prosecuting runaway slaves. In America's history, the Fugitive Slave Acts were statutes passed by Congress in 1793 and 1850, which were repealed in 1864.

Just like many events it caused tension between the North and South leading to the Civil War ended up causing the escapee's freedom to be even more restricted than it was before.

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This purchase was an 1854 agreement between the United States and Mexico in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a portion of Mexico that became part of New Mexico and Arizona.

This event exacerbated the simmering conflict over enslavement and drove the regional tensions that eventually led to the Civil War.

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The Kansas Nebraska Act established two new territories, Kansas and Nebraska. The government decided to allow popular sovereignty to determine whether these states would be slave or free. The concept of popular sovereignty holds that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people.

This event helped lead to the Civil War by increasing tension between the South and North while adding land and allowing people to vote for themselves This resulted in numerous violent clashes between the southern and northern states.

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Abraham Lincoln had been an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 16th President of the United States from 1861 until his assassination by John Wilkes Booth in 1865.

Lincoln was a big part of the Civil War by leading the country throughout the war and achieving the goals of preserving the Union, strengthening the national government, modernizing the US economic system, and freeing slaves.

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The Emancipation Proclamation did not result in the abolition of all slaves in the United States. Rather, it declared slaves living in states not under Union control free.

This helped lead to the Civil War since slaves had fought for their own freedom since the beginning of the Civil War. The Emancipation Proclamation confirmed their belief that the war for the Union had to be transformed into a war for liberty. It bolstered the Union's morale and militarily and politically strengthened the Union.