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Gabriel slave rebellion in Virginia
Gabriel expected "the poor white people" as well as "the most redoubtable republicans" to join his cause to create a more democratic republic in Virginia -
congress ourlaws slave trade
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Missouri compromise
tensions began to rise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions within the U.S. Congress and across the country. They reached a boiling point after Missouri’s 1819 request for admission to the Union as a slave state, which threatened to upset the delicate balance between slave states and free states. To keep the peace, Congress orchestrated a two-part compromise, granting Missouri’s request but also admitting Maine as a free state -
caroline incident
a group of Canadian rebels had been forced to flee to the U.S. after leading the failed Upper Canada Rebellion in Upper Canada. they took refuge on Navy Island on the Canadian side of the Niagara River, which separates the two countries (between Ontario and New York) and declared themselves the Republic of Canada under William Lyon MacKenzie's "general" Rensselaer Van Rensselaer. American sympathizers supplied them with money, provisions, and arms via the steamboat SS Caroline. -
polk defeats clay in manifest destiny election
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US states annexes
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mexican war
Tensions. After 1845 the fact that Texas was now part of the United States was beyond dispute. Yet annexation did not calm tensions since the Texas-Mexican border remained a subject of dispute. The Mexican government defined the south and west border of Texas at the Nueces River. The Texas government, now backed by the U.S. government, declared that the Rio Grande was its southern border, a claim that increased the size of Texas by almost 200 percent. -
free soil party orgaized
Free-Soil Party, minor but influential political party in the pre-Civil War period of American history that opposed the extension of slavery into the western territories -
California gold rush
The great California gold rush began on January 24, 1848, when James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget in the American River while constructing a sawmill for John Sutter, a Sacramento agriculturalist. News of Marshall’s discovery brought thousands of immigrants to California from elsewhere in the United States and from other countries. -
pierce defeats scoot for presidency
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william walker becomes president
william walker becomes president of nicaragua and legalizes slavery