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Following Mexico falling to dictatorship Americans in Texas revolted and over multiple battles eventually won their independence. Notable battles were the Alamo, and the Battle of San Jacinto River.
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War between Canadian lumbermen and American Lumbermen over boundaries regarding disputes over the boarder between Canda and The United States.
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A feeling that it was Americans god given right to expand their territories, particularly seen in westward expansion, led to the acquisition of much of the western united states
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Treaty that officially established the border between the U.S. and Canada in Maine along with the boundaries of Minesota
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Resulted in Polk's election, Polk was a firm expansionist and pushed for the Annexation of Texas, acquiring Ca, and claiming Oregon.
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President John Tyler before leaving office pushes the Texas annexation through congress allowing it to become a state
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Proposed by David Wilmot would ban slavery in all territories acquired from Mexico. Passed the house twice but failed in the senate.
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Agreement between the U.S. and Britian that established the border between the U.S. and Canada at the 49th Parallel, giving both nations part of the Oregon land. Many saw this agreement as not getting enough for the U.S. and caused Polk to receive criticism.
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War Between the United States and Mexico over the boarder of Texas. The U.S. captured Mexico City causing an end of the war. Resulted in the Treaty of Guadalupe and Hidalgo
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Was the result of the Mexican American war. Allowed the U.S. to purchase California, Arizonia, New Mexico, Nevada, and Parts of Utah and Colorado for 15 million dollars (Mexican Succession). The treaty also required Mexico to acknowledge the Rio Grande as the boarder of Texas.
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Political party that opposed the expansion of slavery into western territories. Never won any major elections. Slogan "free soil, free labor, free labor, free man"
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Whig, War hero Zacherey Taylor narrowly won due to support being split between free soilers and whigs. Taylor had no strong opinion on slavery.
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Gold is found in the hills of California starting the California Gold Rush, a period when large amounts of people flooded to California in the hopes of finding gold and becoming rich. Very few did but did lead to development in the west.
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Treaty between the U.S. and Britian that prevented either nation from seizing total control of a potential canal in central America.
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US Government gives a 2.5 million dollars to help build the Illinois Central Railroad that spanned from Lake Michigan to the Gulf of Mexico.
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Proposed by Henrey Clay the Compromise would admit California as a free state, divide the rest of the Mexican secession into Utah and New Mexico and allow them to have popular sovereignty, ban the slave trade in D.C., and adopt a harsher fugitive slave law. Was passed and worked as a temporary fix for the growing sectional tensions.
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Passed as a part of the Compromise of 1850, enacted harsh punishment for escaped slaves, required them to be sent back to their slave owners and revoked African Americans right to trial by jury, also set strict penalties on those who aided escaped slaves
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Book published by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed the cruelties of slavery, caused many northerners to take firm stance against slavery and outraged the south as they viewed it as lying
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President Peirce's attempt to secretly purchase Cuba from Spain by sending diplomats to Belgium. Idea got leaked to the press causing a scandal
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Democrat Peirce won with a landslide. Peirce was a northern but supported the Fugitive Slave law making him likeable in the south
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William Walker made multiple attempts to control Central America and establish slavery attempting to take Baja California (1853), Nicaragua (1856) and Hondros (1860).
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Purchase made by President Peirce from Mexico, gave the U.S. control of parts of Southern New Mexico and Arizona. Purchased for $ 10 million.
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Treaty between the US and Japan that was signed after pressure from US diplomats that opened two Japanese ports to trade.
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Proposed by Stephen Douglas in an attempt to place the Transcontinental Railroad. The Act would establish popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska and revoke the Missouri compromise. Act was passed and had disastrous consequences such as Bleeding Kansas
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In response to the Kansas Nebraska act, Free soilers, anti-slavery whigs and democrats joined together to form a party that opposed the expansion of slavery in the US. They called for a repel of the Kansas Nebraska act and the fugitive slave laws. Gained support but alienated the south.
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Organized to counteract slaveholders moving to Kansas and Nebraska to try to establish slavery.
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Ended the Fininachal boom of the midcentury. Didn't really effect the South but led to high unemployment in the North and West
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As a result of the Kansas Nebraska act both people who supported slavery and wanted slavery to end moved to Kansas in an attempt to flip it to their side. Fighting soon broke out between the two groups leading to the name "Bleeding Kansas". John Brown who was a leading abolitionist was known for his attack at Pottawatomie Creek that was a response to attacks in Lawernce Kansas by slavery supporters. These attacks showed the tensions over the matter.
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Senator Sumner was canned on the senate floor by Preston Brooks in response to a speech he gave denouncing bleeding Kansas and slavery. Showed the intense divides between pro and anti slavery groups
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Resulted in the election of Democrat, James Buchanan. Republican nominee gathered mass support showing the shift towards antislavery politics that could be seen throughout the following years.
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Tested Buchanan as to whether he should approve the pro slavery constitution of Kansas knowing it did not have the support of the majority in the territory. Buchanan voted to ratified it, but it was rejected by congress. Led many to view him as a weak leader. v
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Supreme court case in which an enslaved man who moved to a free state, his owner then died, Dred Scott sued for his freedom. The case ended up in the supreme court where they ruled that Dred Scott could not sue because he was not a citizen, that congress could not deprive any person of their property, slaves included, and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
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Debates that occurred between Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln over the senate seat in Illinois. Douglas ended up winning but the debates showed growing support for Lincoln.
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John Brown, a radical abolitionist attempted to start a slave rebellion when he led a small gang of slaves to attack on the federal armory. He was defeated by Robert E. Lee. His violence was largely condemned by both sides, but particularly by the south.
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Democratic party separated, Republicans Nominate Lincoln, Constitutional union party nominate man, Lincoln wins causing the deep south to succeed
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Following Lincolns election South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas all succeeded from the union over concerns over the future of slavery.
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Representatives from all the succeeded states met and created the Confederate states of America, electing Jefferson Davis as president and creating their own constitution mimicking the one of the US
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Proposed by Senator John Crittenden saying that slavery would be guaranteed below the 36, 30 lines in an attempt to prevent further annexation. Was rejected by Lincoln
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Plan proposed by Lincoln that would allow full pardons to Confederates who took an oath of alliance to the U.S. and who accepted the emancipation of the slaves. The plan also stated that if 10% of the voters in a state took an oath of loyalty the state would be reaccepted into the Union.
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Harsher plan for reconstruction proposed by congress. Would require 50% of the state's population to take the oath, and only people who did not support the confederacy could vote.
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Lincoln gets popped by John Wilkes Booth while watching a play bringing an end to his leadership.
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Under Johnson all 11 states were ready to rejoin the Union. All states drafted a new constitution that accepted the 13th amendment, and shamed the confederacy and succession.
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Following Lincolns assignation, Johnson proposed his own plan for reconstruction, very similar to Lincolns except it revoked the right to vote from previous southern office holders and wealthy confederates with over 20,000 dollars of taxable property. He did however allow for these men to ask for individual pardons, which he used frequently, allowed for south to rebuild democratic governments
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Laws passed in the south that limited the rights of Freedmen. These codes prohibited African Americans from renting land and taking loans to rent land, placed freeman in a form of semi bondage, Prohibited blacks from testifying against whites in court
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Federally funded program to support recently freed African Americans in the south. The Berua focused on providing food, medical aid, shelter, and education to freed blacks and poor whites. They educated over 200,000 African Americans in 0ver 300 schools they built.
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Constisted of the Civil Rights act of 1866, The 14th Amendment
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Secretary of State William Seward purchases Alaska, marks post was expansion efforts