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This was the process of admitting a new state to the Union. This is important because it was how the states were getting added to the Union which made the problem of how to include the states as free or slave to stop the expansion of slavery. One of the main causes of the civil war was slavery.

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1793- The cotton gin was an invention that cleaned cotton of its seeds, and it made the production of cotton skyrocket. Since there was a lot of cotton being produced, plantation owners needed enslaved people to get the cotton for them. This was a problem because it increased the need for slave labor in the South. This led to the civil war because the population of enslaved people was increasing at high rates, which was exactly what the North wanted to avoid.

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In 1801, Thomas Jefferson was elected. This is relevant to the Civil war because Thomas Jefferson led the Louisiana Purchase which led to the Compromises and new territories being made which overall made the problem of slavery bigger and more widespread.

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The Louisiana Purchase is the land that Thomas Jefferson purchased in the West. This was important because it brought up a lot of problems with slavery that angered people which eventually led to the Civil War.

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The Lewis and Clark Expedition(1804-1806)

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The Lewis and Clark Expedition(1804-1806)

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Captain Meriweather Lewis and Lieutenant William Clark were chosen by Thomas Jefferson to lead the expedition to explore the newly purchased Louisiana Territory. They looked for and recorded a passage via water from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean. There wasn't a direct passage through water, but they discovered new plants and animals and reported it back to Jefferson. This event led to the civil war because without the exploration of this area, the North and South wouldn't have anything to fight over.

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The 1808 act banned the Triangle Slave Trade. This didn't stop slavery fully or slave trade overall. It just stopped underground slave trade. Because this let slavery still exist it led up to the Civil war.

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The Panic of 1819 was the first financial crisis in the U.S. This causes wide spread unemployment. This led to the Civil war because it left a lasting effect on America's banking system. All the attempts to fix this made the Southerners mad leading up to the Civil war.

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This was the compromise where Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state. This was seen as unconstitutional. Both sides, north(against slavery) and south(for slavery), argued over this. Overall leading to Bleeding Kansas which was a major event leading up to the Civil war.

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The Texas Annexation was when Texas was admitted into the Union as the 28th state. This led to the Civil War because the annexation would increase the area and political strength of the slave power which led to a war with Mexico leading to the Civil war.

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Manifest Destiny was the idea that the U.S. had a God given to take over every part of North America. States were getting added to the Union very quickly and this intensified the issue of slavery giving more reason for the Civil war.

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The California Gold Rush brought a flood of workers and settlers to California for the most desired thing at the time, gold. This event was important because it brought more people west, very fast. The question soon arose of whether California would be a free state or a slave state. This event led to the Civil War because with more land, comes more arguments and more controversy over slavery.

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This was a war between the United States and Mexico. This contributed to the Civil war because all the land that was obtained by Mexico during the war caused more "sectional strife" over the expansion of slavery.

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The Mexican Cession is the land that was surrendered to the United States by Mexico at the end of the Mexican War. This land, like all the other land, had to be decided by Congress whether it was a free or slave state. This event led to the civil war because it made for more division between the North and the South having to decide what parts of this land would be free and stuff like that.

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The Compromise of 1850 was a compromise between the North and South for the land of the Mexican Cession. Congress decided that California would be a free state, and that the rest would be split up into two territories: Utah, and New Mexico. These territories would be decided by popular sovereignty, which was where the land would be decided by  popular vote. Also, a part of the compromise was The Fugitive Slave Act. The Fugitive Slave Act was an act that made it easier for slaveholders to take back the enslaved people who had run away. This event led to the civil war because the South was getting more and more pro-slavery and North was getting more and more anti-slavery which made for conflict.

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The Gadsden Purchase was a southern route from New Orleans westward to California; small strip of land at the end of the Rocky Mountains negotiated from Mexico. This event led to the Civil War because with every new piece of land, conflict comes along with it, whether it will be a free territory, or a slave territory.

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was something that basically repealed The Missouri Compromise and made it so that two new territories would be decided by popular sovereignty. This event led to the civil war because Kansas became a breeding ground for political violence. It was also a problem because since the land was decided by popular sovereignty, many people came to this area so that they could win with their population.

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The "sacking" of Lawrence, Kansas was when pro-slavery settlers attacked the anti-slavery town of Lawrence. This event led to the civil war because tensions were getting higher, especially with the Kansas-Nebraska Act, everyone wanted everywhere to be either pro or anti-slavery and they were willing to fight for it.

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In response to the sacking of Kansas, abolitionist, John Brown, most of his family members, and others, went to Pottawatomie, Kansas. This settlement was pro-slavery land. John Brown and his party killed 5 pro-slavery men. This event led to the civil war because it showed how far people were willing to go just so that there was or wasn't slavery and that neither side was going down without a fight.

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Abraham Lincoln, a republican, who was anti-slavery, was elected as president. This scared the Southern states because the president had the power to abolish slavery. Not very soon after the polls were closed, 7 states seceded from the Union from 1860-1861. This event led to the Civil War because Abraham Lincoln was the one who eventually abolished slavery, which was what the South was scared of, so the south became more willing to fight for what they believed, even more than before.

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The Battle of Fort Sumter was when Lincoln sent fresh supplies to the troops there who were in danger after several federal forts, including Fort Sumter in South Carolina, became outposts in foreign lands after secession. On April 12, 1861, the confederate warships opened a 34-hour attack on Fort Sumter. This meant the Civil War was underway. This event led to the Civil War because this was the event that initiated the Civil War, and started more violece.