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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. It prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri. Prior to the agreement, the House of Representatives had refused to accept this compromise and a conference committee was appointed. -
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The Coming of the Civil War
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Annexation of Texas
Texas wanted to join theirself to the United States. But the north states didnt like that because the feared that the addition of even one slave state would shift the balnace of power in the south. -
The Treaty of Guadlupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Guadalpe Hidalgo gave the the United States acquired more than 500,000 square miles of valuable territory and emerged as a world power in the late nineteenth century. -
Compromise of 1850
Comporomise of 1850 did:
1.Congress would admit California as a free state
2. The people of the territories of NEw Mexico and Utah would decide for themselevs wheather slavey would legal
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom Cabin was writing by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The story took place in the south. The story showed how slaves were treated in the south in this time frame -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30. The Kansas-Nebraska Act infuriated many in the North who considered the Missouri Compromise to be a long-standing binding agreement. In the pro-slavery South it was strongly supported. -
Dred Scott V.S. Sandford
Was a decision by the United States Supreme Court that ruled that people of African descent imported into the United States and held as slaves, or their descendants—whether or not they were slaves—were not protected by the Constitution and could never be citizens of the United States. It also held that the United States Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in federal territories. -
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CIVIL WAR
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Battle of Bull Run
The frist attack was on July 21,1861.about 35,00 troops were inthis battle on each side. 2,900 The Union troops where killed, wounded, captured, or MIA. The south havd less then 2,000 troops killed, MIA, wounded, or captured. -
The Emancilpation Preclamation
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The Battle of Shlioh
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THe Second Battle of Bull Run
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Balck join the War
