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13th Amendment
- Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
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14th Amendment
- any state shall not deprive any person of life liberty or property without due process of law
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15th Amendment
- The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
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Missouri Compromise
- an effort by congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of missouri
- slavery would be permitted
- it was important because it set a pattern for the enlargment of the united states
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Monroe Doctrine
- us policy opposing European colonialism in the americas
- its important because america declared it non-colonization and nonintervention from foreign powers
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Battle of Alamo
- it happend at the fortress in texas where 400 american volunreers were slain by santa ana
- its important because it became a battle cry in support of texan independence
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Panic of 1837
- it was a significant economic crisis that was triggered by bank failures which elevated grain prices
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Trail of Tears
- removals of native american nations from their ancestral homelands *its important part of history because due to this removal it resulted with 4,000 Cherokee died during the cruel journey
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Sutter's Fort
- a 19th-century agricultural and trade colony in the Mexican Alta California province
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Sutter's Fort
- a 19th-century agricultural and trade colony in the Mexican Alta California province.
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Pre-Emption Act
- response to the demands of the western states that squatters be allowed to preempt lands
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Bear Flag Revolt
- small group of American settlers in California rebelled against the Mexican government and proclaimed California an independent republic.
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US - Mexican War
- it was important because it was one of the US annexation of Texas and the Americans' desire for California and other Mexican territories.
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Fugitive Slave Law
- holding interests and northern free soilers
- it was important because it required that all escaped slavesere were upon capture to be returned to their masters that officals and citizens of free states
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Compromise of 1850
- a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War
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Gadsden Purchase
- a 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased via a treaty signed on December 30, 1853, by James Gadsden, U.S. ambassador to Mexico at that time
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Harper's Ferry
- the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers where the U.S. states of Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia meet.
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Dred Scott Decision
- legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled that a slave who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States;
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Bleeding Kansas
*1855-1861
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Gettysburg Address
- delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War
- the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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Emancipation Proclamation
- a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. It changed the federal legal status of more than 3 million enslaved people in the designated areas of the South from slave to free.
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Civil War
- Apr 12, 1861 – May 9, 1865
- controversy over slavery and state's rights, war broke out