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Slavery started in the 1700 when African Americans were stolen from their home country and brought to America to work for white people. Slaves weren't seen as human they were seen as property and it was accepted and encouraged to buy slaves. This led to every single event leading to the civil war because the civil war was about disagreements bout slavery.

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the Northwest Ordinance established rules for the Northwest Territory, outlined the process for admitting a new state to the Union, and guaranteed that newly created states would be equal to the original thirteen states. This led to the civil war because It provided that new states shared coequal status with the original thirteen states. It set out the process for territories to become states and it was the first and only federal anti-slavery policy

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the northwest territories provided a path toward statehood for the territories northwest of the Ohio River encompassing the area that would become the future states of Illinois Indiana Michigan Ohio Wisconsin and part of Minnesota. This led to the civil war because it made the process of being admitted into the united states.

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In 1793 the cotton gin was invented which is the machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. This institutionalized the need for slaves once again even after most people knew it was wrong. This led to the civil war because the increased demand for slaves started the fiery national issue and eventually led to the Civil War.

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Britain declared war against France in 1803 and lasted more than a decade. The war between britian and France has significance to my timeline because if Napolean hadn't started the war then he wouldn't have sold the Louisiana territory to the US and Lewis and Clark wouldn't have explored It leading to all the events throughout the early 9th century.

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Thomas Jefferson negotiated the purchase of Louisiana from Napolean in 1803, originally for the port of New Orleans to use for trading purposes but ended up hitting the jackpot because the Louisiana purchase consequently ended up doubling the size of the USA. This event helped lead up to the civil war because this heated the debate over slavery.

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the Lewis and Clark expedition was a year long journey west to explorer foreign lands and make peaceful relations with natives. This led to the civil war because when they found all that land and settlers started moving west this opened up yet again the debate of slavery which led to all the other events I have mentioned.

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how the US acquired the was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and New Spain. This once again led to the civil war because offurther sectional strife over the expansion of slavery

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At the time America was in a heated debate of slavery and every time a new state was added to the union things got worse so Henry Clark, came up with the Missouri compromise which crossed a line through the middle of the states making the north half free states and the southern half slave states. This led to the civil war because the balance between the free and slave states in the government was tilted causing more violence and arguments.

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Thomas Jefferson purchased the territory of Louisiana from the French government for $15 million and with all this land everyone liking next to the Atlantic ocean started to migrate west.  The rapid expansion of the United States intensified the issue of slavery as new states were added to the Union.

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The texas annexation happened in 1845 when texas joined the union of the USA and declared independence from The Republic of Mexico. This led to the civil war because the debate of slavery was brought up every time new land was added into the union.

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Manifest Destiny is a phrase journalist John L. O'Sullivan came up with and later others adapted as the idea that the United States is destined by God, its advocates believed to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent. This led to the civil war because The rapid expansion of the United States intensified the issue of slavery as new states were added to the Union, leading to the outbreak of the Civil War.

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California applied as a free state in late 1849. Which led to the civil war because the gold rush then made the nation once again confront the divisive issue on slavery

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The mexican cession brought more states into the union which led to the civil because Northerners did not want slavery expanded into this new land. The South will take control of this stockpile of weapons and use it to start the war

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By strengthening the earlier Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, the later laws further pressured citizens to take sides regarding the issue of slavery. Tensions between the North and South quickly increased, leading to the eventual secession of the South and the ensuing Civil War.

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Uncle toms Cabin is a book written by Harriet beecher stowe about the topic of slavery, this ended up being the 2nd most sold book after the bible at the time. This led to the civil war because once this came out no one could ignore the topic and it received  much more publicity which got both sides into arguments.

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The Gadsden Purchase is a small part of Arizona that Franklin Pierce bought from Mexico in 1854 in order to build a railroad through the states. This led up to the civil war because it was the last bit of land acquired by the US The transaction with Mexico was controversial, and it intensified the simmering conflict over enslavement and helped to inflame the regional differences that eventually led to the Civil War

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Charles Sumner Attacked by Preston Brooks on the U.S. Senate Floor-1856

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Charles Sumner Attacked by Preston Brooks on the U.S. Senate Floor-1856

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a pro-slavery Democrat from South Carolina, used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist Republican from Massachusetts. It has been considered symbolic of the "breakdown of reasoned discourse" and the use of violence that eventually led to the Civil War.

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The government came up with something called popular sovereignty which allows the people to make decisions by voting. This however backfired because people from all over the USA started moving to settle in these states so they could vote to keep or end slavery causing riots and violence between the 2 sides. There was in fact so much violence that it got its name "Bleeding Kansas". This led to the civil war because the same thing was happening in Congress with senators attacking each other, so people had had enough and this was the first time both sides actually took action and began the violence.

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The thirteenth amendment ended slavery after the civil war.