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Missouri Compromise
Maine free state, no slavery north of Missouri. Missouri becomes slave state -
Monroe Doctrine
No European colonization of Western Hemisphere -
Corrupt Bargain
Quincy Adams and Henry Clay defeat Jackson -
Second Great Awakening
Spiritual Fervor that resulted in a prision/church reform, temperance movement, womens rights movement, and abolition of slavery -
Polk's Presidency
James Polk is known for the Mexican-American war. He expanded the US territory -
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Mexican-American War
Armed conflict between the countries -
Compromise of 1850
5 bills passed by the US congress in 1850 that stopped a political confrontation between slave and free states, on the territories of the Mexican American war -
Fugitive Slave Act
Passed by the congress on sept. 18th; northerners must help capture runaway slaves -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Mandated "popular sovereignty", allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery is allowed on new territory -
Dred Scott Decision
He was living in a free state and territory did not entitle a enslaved person their freedom -
Election
Abraham Lincoln ran in the next election, he was soon to become the next president