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- Congress passed a law stating the Missouri was to be made a slave state within the U.S.
- However, slavery was to be forbidden in states north of the 36 degree parallel in the Louisiana Purchase
- This was important, because it set a precedent for how southern and northern states could compete in power and increased the rising tension between them
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- Made by James Monroe, stating that any colonial intervention in North or South America by European countries would be treated as a hostility towards the U.S.
- The U.S. was to intervene if any American land was being threatened with colonization
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- Was made to appease Westerners living with squatters on their land
- Made it possible so that pioneers could "preempt" land and buy up to 160 acres of government owned land for lower prices, until it was sold for a price to the public
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- An important battle concerning the Texans and Americans and the Mexicans during the Texan Revolution
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- Was a financial crisis in the United States from a recession
- Unemployment rose while profits and wages declined
- President Jackson's Specie Circular and other policies added to this panic
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- Was a central part of Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830
- Caused the Cherokee nation to give up their native lands east of Mississippi River and move to reservations
- Was a devastating journey, earning the name "Trail of Tears"
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- Was an agricultural and trade colony built by John Sutter
- Was made for the purpose of the California gold rush
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- War between Mexico and United States after Texan revolution
- U.S. acquired more than 500,000 square miles of territory from Mexico in treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
- Shaped international/domestic relations with Mexico in history
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- American immigrants rebelled against the local Mexican government in California and made the independent California Republic
- Immigrants did not trust the Mexican government and its corrupt leaders
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-Was a compromise of five different bills passed by Congress to appease the Northern and Southern states in their disagreements concerning free and slave states joining the country
-California admitted into Union as free state
-Fugitive Slave Law passed
-Missouri Compromise line maintained
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-Was made to appease Southern states in the Compromise of 1850
-Made it so Northerners were obligated to return any slaves having escaped to the north back to their rightful owners
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-Was a series of political meetings and confrontations between pro-slavery members and anti-slavery "Free-staters" debating over whether Kansas would be admitted into the Union as a free or slave state
-Eventually admitted into the Union as a free state in 1861
-Violent confrontations and murders were planned or carried out, combined with fights among passionate politicians -
-Was a purchase of territory obtaining a region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico between Mexico and the United States
-Made under Franklin Pierce's presidency
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-Enslaved African American Dred Scott attempted to sue for his freedom to get away from a life of slavery
-Supreme Court denied his request, deeming an Act of Congress unconstitutional
-Decided that, since his ancestors were sold and brought to America as slaves, he could not sue for freedom
-Brought anti-slavery sentiments into play in the North, esp. in most Republicans -
-John Brown, an abolitionist, led a slave revolt to take over a U.S. state arsenal in Virginia with 21 men
-Was stopped by Colonel Robert E. Lee
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-South Carolina became the first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the United States
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-A Declaration of the Immediate causes which induce and justify the Secession of Mississippi from the Federal Union.
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-Florida delegates voted to secede from the U.S. Florida became one of the six original Southern states to form the Confederate States of America
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-The Alabama Secession Convention passes an Ordinance of Secession, declaring Alabama a "Sovereign and Independent State."
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-The Georgia Secession Convention of 1861 represents the pinnacle of the state's political sovereignty
-The convention met in Milledgeville from January 16 to March 23, 1861
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-Was a war between Northern Union and Southern Confederacy
-Southerners wished to protect their right to slavery and their traditional way of life, economy, etc.
-Northerners wished to abolish slavery and end the power struggle between south in senate -
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-Was an Act passed by Abraham Lincoln legally freeing more than 3 million slaves in rebellious southern states during the Civil War
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-Was considered the most important battle and a turning point in the American civil war between Union and Confederate forces in the town of Gettysburg, Virginia
-Ended in defeat for Robert E. Lee's forces, forcing a retreat
-Lead to Lincoln's famed Gettysburg Address -
-Was an address given by President Lincoln to his citizens in an effort to keep his troops motivated to fight for the reunification of the country
-was incredibly short for his time but effective
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-An amendment abolishing the act of slavery in the United States
-Pertains to private citizens
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-An amendment made stating that all people born in the United States, regardless of race, gender, or otherwise, are citizens of the country
-Was made more directly to state governments, explaining that no laws of a state can deprive one of their life, liberty, or property without the just process of the law
-One of the Reconstruction amendments -
-Granted African American men the right to vote
-Their right to vote could not be infringed upon by any local government's laws
-Was not enforced well, and Southern governments were able to use literacy tests and poll taxes to stop African Americans from voting for quite some time