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Today everyone is in a hurry so the sandwich is perfect
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Ben Franklin negotiates in peace with Great Britain from 1776-1783
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American colonies fought England to earn independence
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America and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Paris. It ends the war, forces British soldiers to leave the colonies, and frees the colonists from the King's power.
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Congress barely defeats Thomas Jefferson’s attempt to ban slavery in new territories
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Society - Labor Effect: Pay was returned to amount before strike (Lowered because prices of everyday items were lowering).
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Society - Women Effect: Young girls were able to go to school.
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The Constitutional Convention consisting of 12 delegats met from May to September in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to write the U.S. Constitution.
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Lower Counties on Delaware, i.e., the lower counties of Pennsylvania, then a sovereign State in Confederation
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Province of Pennsylvania, then sovereign state in Confederation
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Province of New Jersey, then sovereign state in Confederation
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Province of Georgia, then sovereign state in Confederation
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Connecticut Colony, then sovereign state in Confederation
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Province of Massachusetts Bay, then sovereign state in Confederation
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Georgia: Province of Georgia, then sovereign state in Confederation
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Connecticut: Connecticut Colony, then sovereign state in Confederation
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Massachusetts: Province of Massachusetts Bay, then sovereign state in Confederation
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Maryland: Province of Maryland, then sovereign state in Confederation
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South Carolina: Province of South Carolina, then sovereign state in Confederation
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New Hampshire: Province of New Hampshire, then sovereign state in Confederation
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Virginia: Virginia Colony, then sovereign state in Confederation
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New York: Province of New York, then sovereign state in Confederation
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Province of Maryland, then sovereign state in Confederation
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Province of South Carolina, then sovereign state in Confederation
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Province of New Hampshire, then sovereign state in Confederation
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Virginia Colony, then sovereign state in Confederation
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Province of New York, then sovereign state in Confederation
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The U.S. Constitiution went into effect.
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PARTY- none
He was first president, unified the new nation, and created the chief executive’s duties. -
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Society - Rights Effect: Adopted the Bill of Rights.
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This war started because there was a dramatic difference between the upper class and the peasants. So the peasants rebelled and fought for an equal country. About 2 million people were executed or died.
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Province of North Carolina, then sovereign state in Confederation
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Nearly 700,000 slaves live in America, whose pop. was about 3.9 million
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Society - Women Effect: Women were equal to men.
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Society - Labor Effect: Children started staffing textile mills - reduced need for adult workers.
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Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, then sovereign state in Confederation
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Province of New York and New Hampshire Grants (ownership disputed), the Republic of Vermont
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The Bill of Rights was ratified.
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Society - Women Effect: Women had some of the same rights as men.
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Kentucky County, Virginia. Split off with consent of that state's legislature
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Outlaws efforts to impede the capture of runaway slaves
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Society - Rights Effect: People could tell their slave owners that there slave had escaped - owner would beat the slaves.
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Made a large demand for slave labor
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Formed from western land donated to the Federal government by North Carolina, and first state to originate from a territory
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PARTY- Federalist
Had an adcoacy of Alien and Sedition Acts which made him unpopular and lost the re-election
Was also first president to live in White House -
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Society - Labor Effect: Power loom was invented.
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(Note: All through 1800's)
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The United States capitol was changed from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Washington DC.
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PARTY - Democratic-Republican
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Barbary pirates were angering president so Americans went to war and came out with a victory
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The Louisiana Purchase was the purchase by the United States of America in the territory of Louisiana (in which the French had claimed).
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The Northwest Territory, land claims ceded to the Federal government by the Eastern states such as Pennsylvania, Virginia, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York
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Daalton devises table of elements, he made it so people knew which chemicles were okay for you.
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Freidrich Winzer was the firt person to invent gas lighting. It made light for people day and night.
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Lewis and Clark set out on their expedition.
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Society - Women Effect: African Females were able to go to school and religious classes.
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Society - Labor Effect: Work conditions improve, companies lose money.
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importing African slaves is outlawed, but smuggling continues.
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Society - Rights Effect: People were not allowed to send slaves over to people who wanted them.
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PARTY - Democratic - Republican
Took charge of the War of 1812 with Britain, -
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Humphery Davy invents the first electric light. It gave people light in the night. Before the electric right there was only the sun to give light.
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Peter Durand invents the first tin can. You could hold food in the tin can.
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Robert Fulton invents the first steam boat. It delivered comunication and transportation for people.
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Brother of tribe leader ignored orders not to attack the American forces, he ignored causing a battle. Was no victory for either side.
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The United States declares war on Britain.
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Europe and the United States entered a conflict that put Napoleonic France against Great Britain and Britain's continental allies.
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Territory of Orleans
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Caused because British attempted to restrict US trade
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Representatives from Austria, Russia, Britain, Prussia, and France meet at the Congress of Vienna to discuss England's future.
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Humpher Davy Invents the miners lamp. It was a lamp that was easy to use. It was used for miners, it sat on their head while they worked.
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The British set the White House and Capitol on fire.
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The Treaty that ended the war of 1812
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The U.S. and Britain signed the Treaty of Ghent to officially end the War of 1812.
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Indiana Admitted from Northwest Territory
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PARTY- Republican
People called his term the “Era of Good Feeling” because there was little partisan fighting. He also made the Monroe Doctrine (Declared the AMericas off-limits to European meddling) Also lived out his entire retirement in poverty -
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Mississippi Territory, formed from land ceded to the Federal government by Georgia
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Illinois Territory, formed from the Northwest Territory
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Treaty with Britain sets 49th parallel.
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1819- ((Transcontinental Treaty)- “the United States and Spain defined the western limits of the Louisiana Purchase, and Spain surrendered its claims to the Pacific Northwest. In return, the United States recognize Spanish sovereignty over Texas.” -from future.state.gov)Acquisition of Florida- East and West Florida stayed loyal to the King of Britain during the war, but by the time the Treaty of Paris, they returned to Spanish control.
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Spain gives up Florida to the U.S.
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Alabama Territory, formed from the Mississippi Territory, land ceded to the Federal government by the State of Georgia
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The Florida teritory
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Samuel Fahnestock invents the soda fountain. It was a container that held, and dispensed deffernt types of soda.
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To maintain the balance between free and slave states, Maine became a free state and Missouri became a slave state.
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Split off from Massachusetts with consent of the legislature that state (formerly called the District of Maine)
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Missouri Compromise Missouri is admitted to the Union as a slave state, Maine as a free state. Slavery is forbidden in any territories that were later to form north of latitude 36, 30’
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Missouri Territory, from the Louisiana Purchase
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Spain give USA Florida territories
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Stephen Austin founds colony in Texas
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Society - Women Effect: Women were able to go to college.
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Michael Farady invents the electric magnetic force. It was suppose to inspire young inventers to create the first practical electric devices.
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The people of Greece rebelled against the Ottoman Empire, ultimately winning their independence. About 170,000 people died.
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Denmark Vesey, an enslaved African American carpenter who had purchased his freedom, plans a slave revolt with the intent to invade Charleston, South Carolina. The plot was discovered and Vesey and 34 others were hung.
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Brazil gains it's independence from Portugal.
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PARTY - Democratic-Republican
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Society - Labor Effect: United Tailoresses of New York was formed.
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Society - Women Effect: Women were able to go to school and learn to read and write and get an education.
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Book about 6 extinct birds of America
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Constructution was begun on the first public railroad in the United States.
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PARTY - Democratic
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Bourbon Monarchy is overthrown in July during the Revolution in France.
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President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, moving Indians to land west of the Mississippi River.
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Nat Turner (an enslaved preacher) leads a day long rebellion in Virginia.
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(1831) - Revolt- Slave preacher Nat Turner leads a two-day uprising against whites, killing 60 whites, militiamen eventually track down Turner in a couple of months and hung him on November 11, 1831, this made slaves furious
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Slave uprising day long rebellion in Virginia, caused strictor slave laws
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Conflict between Andrew Jackson and Seminole Indians
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Conflict between Native Americans and United States
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Indian Territory Founded
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(1835) - Southern or Confederate states remove abolitionists (people who don’t favor slavery or punishment) and ban the mailing of anti slavery propaganda ( to convince people not to have slaves)
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Texas rebelled Mexico laws and started War. Texas won independence
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Texas declares its independence from Mexico
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Arkansas Territory from the Louisiana Purchase
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PARTY- Democrat
Presidency led to economic depression that led to bank failures and food riots.Was also first President to be born an American citizen. Not a british subject. -
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Michigan Territory, formed from the Northwest Territory
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More than 15,000 Cherokee Indians were forced to march from Georgia to Indian Territory in present day Oklahoma.
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PARTY - Whig
He was expected to be a passive “acting president” while finishing Harrison’s term, but he refused to be passive. He made enemies in congress and was the first US president threatened with impeachment, but the impeachment failed. -
PARTY - whig
Delivered an inaugural speech, caught a cold and died a month after the speech. -
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aneroid means “fluidless”, and barometers are used for measuring the air pressure in the atmosphere. Weather was becoming easier to predict using the barometer.
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a morse code message was sent from Washington D.C. to Baltimore on May 24, 1844. This revolutionized long distance communication and later led to the phone.
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PARTY- Democrat
He presided over the Mexican War, which added Texas, California, and other territory to the U.S.
Only President to serve as Speaker of the House. -
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The Republic of Texas, which voluntarily merged into the United States
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Florida Territory, purchased from the Spanish Empire
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US gets land from Mexico and they quetsion is slavery permitted in new land.
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Iowa - Iowa Territory from the Louisiana Purchase
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Oregon - Oregon boundary with Canada
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people were able to make clothes easier and factories bought sewing machines, helped the economy
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Around 12,300 people died in this fight for land. A man named James K. Polk decided that he wanted to add onto the United States, but that land was owned by mexico, so he fought for it.
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The United States gets the state of Oregon from the Oregon Treaty.
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escaped slave Frederick Douglass begins publishing North Star, in NY.
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Society - Labor Effect: Workers can not work more than ten hours a day.
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Gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in California.
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Wisconsin - Wisconsin Territory, formed from the Northwest Territory
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Most of this war took place on or by the Black Sea, About 300,000 men died. This war started mainly because of the countries fighting over ownership of a variety of different reasons, and also partly because of high tensions. The war was between Turkey, France and Britain against Russia.
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A women's rights convention was held for two days in Seneca Falls, New York
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PARTY - Whig
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She escapes slavery but returns to the south many times to help escaping slaves.
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the safety pin has helped a lot with sewing and organization.
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PARTY - Whig
He allowed slavery in the south by allowing the Compromise of 1850, but neither the north or south were happy, so Fillmore was blamed for the laws failure. -
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In exchange for California entering Union as free state northern congressmen have to except a harsher Fugitive Slave Act.
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California - Admitted as a state
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Society - Women Effect: Women were eventually allowed to own property.
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Utah/New Mexico - New territories
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It wasn’t electric, but a hand-turned wheel that splashed water on the dishes, this helped restaurants and homes and led to electric dishwashers. It also helped the economy.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin is published. It is about the horrors of slavery.
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PARTY- Democrat
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Gadsden - Purchase
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Congress allows these territories to choose whether or not to allow slavery and that leads to violence
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Nebraska/Kansas - Territories
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Society - Rights Effect: Republican Party is formed.
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Society - Rights Effect: Clashes erupt.
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Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, establishing the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.
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John Brown travels to Pottawatomie Creek and killed unarmed people due to them being pro- slavery
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The Landmark Supreme Court decided that Congress didn't have the right to ban slavery in states so, slaves weren't considered citizens.
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PARTY - Democratic
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The supreme court decides 7-2 that blacks can never be citizens and that congress has no authority to outlaw slavery in territory.
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Kansas - Ratifies
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people had to open cans with a chisel and hammer, so it made it easier to open food, this had been improved several times over the years. The selling of these helped the economy.
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Minnesota - Admitted as a state
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Oregon - Admitted as a state
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John Brown starts Harpers Ferry Raid- seizes arsenal
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Kansas - Admitted as a state
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South Carolina seceded from the Union. Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana seceded from the Union in January of 1861.
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The Civil War started in 1861 and went until 1865. It was between the Union (North) and the Confederacy (South)
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The Confederate States of America was established.
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American Civil War begins
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PARTY - Republican
He led the Union in the Civil War in hopes to preserve the nation and end slavery, and he was assassinated just five days after the south surrendered. -
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he created Yale Lock Manufacturing, and it turned into a big business and made locks for banks and other businesses, and it helped the economy.
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All slaves in rebel territory are free on January 1, 1863.
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West Virgina - Divided off from Virginia, with the "consent" of a pro-Union Virginia government in Wheeling unrecognized by that state's rebelling legislature in Richmond
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Society - Rights Effect: Slaves gained freedom.
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Nevada - Divided off from Virginia, with the "consent" of a pro-Union Virginia government in Wheeling unrecognized by that state's rebelling legislature in Richmond.
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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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PARTY- Democrat
Was impeached and tried by the Senate, but was acquitted by one vote. -
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It outlaws slavery, slavery is abolished.
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these lightbulbs were electric and easier to turn on rather than lighting an oil lamp or a candle. Of, course lightbulbs have been improved, but this was a huge step at that time. The selling of these helped the economy.
