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Missouri Compromise
Since Missouri wanted to enter the U.S. as a slave state and Maine wanted to enter as a free state, they both were able to enter becaue it was even. -
John Quincy Adams Becomes President
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The Indian Removal Act
Andrew Jackson forced slaves to leave their territory and home so that white settlers could move in, settle there, and in some areas, mine for gold. -
Andrew Jackson Re-Elected for 2nd Term
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Compromise of 1850
A set of laws that included:
-California could enter as a free state
-Utah and New Mexico Territory was created
-Ended slave trade in Washington d.c. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Many people argues about it the Kansas-Nebraska territory should allow slaves or not. The government said to be far, the people living there could vote on it. Then, a lot of people from the North and South moved in to vote for it. -
John Brown's Raid
John Brown led a group of men into the south to take their weapons so they wouldn't be able to fight in the Civil War. They went to Virginia for this, but at that time Virginia was still part of the Union, -
Attack on Fort Sumter
The Confederacy started to shoot the Union, who had took their fort. The next day, general Robert Anderson surrendered.