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Missouri Compromise
an effort by congress to get rid of sectional and political rivalries casued by the request of missouri in 1819. -
Mexican War
Marked the first U.S. Armed conflict chiefly fought on froeign soil. -
compromise of 1850
The compromise of 1850 consisted of laws admitting california as a free state, and resolving wars. -
fugitive slave act of 1850
it was passed as part of the "Compromise of 1850" -
kansas- nebraska act
it allowed the settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new states boarders. -
bleeding kansas
term used to describe the violence during the settling of kansas territory. -
dred scott decision
A court Case that afirmed the right of slave owners to take their slaves into western territories. -
John Browns raid on Harpers Ferry
An armed slave revolt to destroy the institution of Slavery.
