Williams Week 13 Assignment 2

Flowchart nodes

• Contributors to Sectionalism Timeline

• Constitution (1789) It failed to include all men at the time which created an issue between enslaved individuals, women, and those men supported by the constitution.

• The Second Great Awakening (Begins in 1790) It created division between traditionalist who insisted on continuing the importance of ritual and those wanting to be apart of the awakening.

• Haitian Revolt (1791-1804) It was the first time a black dominant society led a revolt for change against white men.

• Eli Whitney Invents the Cotton Gin (1793) It led to a economic divide between the North and South economies.

• End of the International Slave Trade (1808) It led to the end of importing more slaves which the North supported but the South did not.

• Missouri crisis (1819-1820) It alerted an imbalance between free and slave states.

• Cotton Revolution Begins (1820) The North still does not agree with slavery but is benefitting from the overload of cotton growth while not agreeing wih slaves.

• Vesey Revolt (1822) Created an uprising and divide between the churches by Vesey being active and gaining members for his church who as a whole was against slavery.

• Nat Turner rebellion (August 21-23, 1831) It was a sign of the underlying discontent of slavery; nevertheless, it inevitably tightened slave codes.  

• Mexican American War (1846-1848) The Mexican Cession was gained from this and the North did not want any of the states to be slave states which caused more tension from refusal.

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (1850) It declared that all runaway slaves be brought back to their masters. This law is clearly an act of sectionalism.

• Uncle Tom's Cabin (March 20, 1852) This  anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe, depicts the reality of slavery. The south took the book as a threat to the south as a whole

• Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) It had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and they could whether they would allow slavery within each territory.

• Dred Scott case (1857) The previous Missouri Compromise was ruled unconstitutional which alerted most that slavery may be as well.

• Harper's Ferry Raid (1859) It was an act of the abolotionist who were against slavery.

• Attack on Fort Sumter (April 12-14 1861) It was the first shot that started thwe Civil War and the journey to end sectiontionalism.