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Louisiana Purchase
Was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the united stated from the Napolionic France. It helped increase the United States territory ( more slavery) and helped the westward expansion. -
Missouri compromise
Was a United States federal legislation to stop northern states to forever prohibit slavery. Slavery were accepted below the Mason-Dixon line -
Mexican American war
Was an armed conflict between the USA and Mexico They wanted to expand the territory , and expanding the territory meant expanding slavery. Because The territory they wanted (Texas) was below the Mason-Dixon Line. -
California Gold Rush
Discovered by James W Marshall. Was a rush to newly discovered gold fields in pursuit of richness Many people moved to california because of the gold and it was enough people to be called a state. -
Compromise of 1850
California was admitted to the United States as a free state. Southerners were not happy about admitting california as a free state. -
Kansas-Nebraska act
Was a territorial organic , were they created the territory of Kansas and Nebraska Repealed the Missouri compromise and created two new states -
Bleeding Kansas
Was a war of violent civil confrontations in Kansas to debate over the legality of slavery in Kansas. Things started to get more tense because many people died. -
Dred Scott case
Dred Scott sued his dead owner because he was a slave living in a free state, the court didn’t approved Dred to be a free person , they told him a black man couldn’t be a citizen. Black people didn’t liked that and also northerner states didn’t liked that also. -
Raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown planned a raid an arsenal on Harpers ferry and then he planned to give it to the slaves so they can start a revolution. More anti-slavery people started to appear and leaded to civil war. -
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln got Stephan A Douglas. Won with 180 electoral votes Southerners didn’t liked that because Lincoln prohibited the extension of slavery. Seven states secede from the nation -
Southern secesión
South Carolina left and then another 10 more states left one by one This lead the Nation to a civil war against the seceded states.