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Was agreements and they chose Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. The rest of the Louisiana Territory was split into two parts. The President at this time was Madison.
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One of the busiest roads back then that stretched to Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe, Mexico. It was 780 miles long.
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It was a little town in Austin County, Texas. The town was also a social, political, and an economic center. It was founded in 1824, by Texas Rangers.
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The governor of Texas feared the growth in Anglo-American population was growing. The superiors in Mexico City disapproved slavery. They abolished slavery throughout Mexican territories.
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William Lloyd Garrison was the one who wrote it. The page was about African Americans. It was published in a newspaper. It earned nationwide notoriety.
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he was regarded as one of the most complex figures in American history. His rebellion was the bloodiest and effective in American history. Him and his rebels were protesting against the South. The South fight back hard and Nat was hiding in the woods where he was found by a hunter and surrender peacefully.
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Stephen F. Austin goes to jail because he would cause tensions that would lead to war and rebellion.
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A convention of American Texans meet and declared the independence of Texas from Mexico.
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Started in Independence, Missouri and went to Oregon City, Oregon. The First travelers to travel this great distance were two Methodist missionaries named Marcus and Narcissa. It proved wagons could be travel on the the Oregon trail.
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A belief that the US was to expand to the Pacific ocean into Mexican and Native American territory.
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Congress of the republic of Texas accepts the U.S. Texas become 28th state in the States.
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Marked the first U.S. armed conflict fought on foreign soil. Causes include Texas gaining independence from Mexico. Addition of a slave state. Mexican government also encouraging border raids and warns that attempts at annexation would lead to war.
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Frederick Douglass wrote it. The paper was about anti-slavery. the stroy explains how all human being are equal. We are all the same.
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It ended the war between Mexico and America in favor of the U.S. The treaty added 520,00 miles of new territory to the U.S. In those square miles included 7 new states in present-day.
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A package of five separate bills passed by the U.S. Congress. It defused a four-year political between slave and free states regarding the status of territory gained in the Mexican-American War
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Network of secret routes and safe houses. It was used by African Americans slave who wanted to escape into free states even Canada.
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It was another thing passed by the U.S. Congress. Part of the Compromise of 1850, Southern slaveholding interest and Northern Free-Soilers.
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A American abolitionist, humanitarian, and an armed scout, also a spy for the U.S. she saved many slaves and was invalid with the underground railroads.
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A novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It helped lay out the groundwork for the Civil War.
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Allowed settlers to territory to decide whether or not slavery would be allowed within new states borders. As conflicts arose between pro-slavery and anti-slavery led period of violence and was known as Bleeding Kanas. Helped paved the way for the Civil War.
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It was decided by the Supreme Court. Was a landmark decision in the debate surrounding constitutionality and legality slavery. People could enter the U.S. as slaves and then not rely on the protecton of the U.S. Became considered to be among the rost an was handed down by the Supreme Court.
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A campaign for a US Senate seat from Illinois. The debate held seven sites throughout the state and one of each of the seven Congressional Districts.
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John laid a small group on a raid against federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia( now west) in an attempt to start an armed slave revol and destroy slavery.
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Was willing to force Federal law and Union. He fought to end slavery.
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It consisted of 11 southern states that seceded from the Union. War broke out between the 11 states and the Union.
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An island located in South Carolina. Was originally constructed as a coastal garrison an is famous for the first shots in the Civil War. After the war, itwa restored by the U.S. military and manned during the Spanish-American War, World War 1, and even World War 2.
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Only remedy for American society was emancipation. The best way to end the war was to kill slavery once and for all. It shaped its meaning.
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Named by Confederate forces, also known as the first Manassas. Fought in Prince William County, Virginia. Was also the first major battle of the American Civil War.
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Was fought near Sharpsburg, Maryland. The first field army-level engagement in the East theater, American Civil War took place on Union soil. Bloodiest one-day battles that caused many deaths, wounded, and missing persons.