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It was a United States federal statute devised by Henry Clay. It regulated slavery in the country's western territories by prohibiting the practice,It under presidency of James Monroe
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It is manifest destiny that was a widely held belief in the United States that its settlers were destined to expand across North America.
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One of the busiest routes was the Santa Fe Trail,
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The Oregon Trail stretched from Independence,
Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon. It was blazed in 1836 by
two Methodist missionaries named Marcus and Narcissa
Whitman. By driving their wagon as far as Fort Boise (near
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A town in Austin County, Texas, United States. The town was the social, economic, and political center of the early Stephen F. Austin colony.
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Many of the settlers were Southerners,who had brought slaves with them to Texas, which had abolished slavery in 1829, insisted in vain that the Texans free their slaves.
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Austin had traveled to Mexico City late in 1833 to present petitions to Mexican president,Austin was on his way home
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began when colonists in the Mexican province of Texas rebelled against the increasingly centralist Mexican government.The 1836 rebellion in which Texas gained its independence from Mexico.
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The Texans set Santa Anna free only after he signed the Treaty of Velasco, which granted independence to Texas.
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Conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848. It followed in the wake of the 1845 US annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory, despite the 1836 Texas Revolution.
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A peace treaty signed on February 2, 1848, between the United States and Mexico that ended the Mexican–American War.
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the movement to abolish slavery, became the most important of a series of reform movements in America.
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William Lloyd Garrisonlavery, he established his own paper, The Liberator, to deliver an uncompromising demand: immediate emancipation.
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In 1847, Frederick Douglass began his own antislavery newspaper. He named it The North Star, after the star that guided runaway slaves to freedom.
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One of the most prominent rebellions was led by Virginia slave
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A package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War
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It required that all escaped slaves were, upon capture, to be returned to their masters and that officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate in this law. passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850
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free African Americans and white abolitionists developed a
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One of the most famous conductors was Harriet Tubman,
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Harriet Beecher Stowe published it, which stressed that slavery was not just a political contest, but also a great moral struggle
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Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and was drafted by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois and President Franklin Pierce.
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A major Supreme Court decision was brought about by Dred Scott, a slave whose owner took him from the slave state of Missouri to free territory in Illinois and back to Missouri he sued in federal court for his freedom. The court ruled against him, and he appealed to the Supreme Court.
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the 1858 race for the U.S. Senate between Democratic incumbent Stephen Douglas and Republican challenger Congressman Abraham Lincoln,neither wanted slavery in the territories,
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Effort by white abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown's raid, accompanied by 21 men in his party,
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As the 1860 presidential election approached, the Republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln appeared to be moderate in his views.
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Formed in February 1861, the Confederate States of America was a republic composed of eleven Southern states that seceded from the Union in order to preserve slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites.
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As the bombardment of U.S. Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, by the Confederates, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the U.S. Army that started the American Civil War. The most important was Fort Sumter, on an island
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The first bloodshed on the battlefield occurred about three months after Fort Sumter fell, near the little creek of Bull Run, just 25 miles from Washington, D.C.Fortunately for the Union,the Confederates were too exhausted to follow up their victory with an attack on
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on September 17 near a creek called the Antietam. The clash proved to be the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, As a result, Lincoln removed him from command.
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Happen in Southern Pennsylvania, the most decisive battle of the war was fought. The Battle of Gettysburg began on July 1 Northerners were enthusiastic about breaking “the charm of Robert Lee’s invincibility.”
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The speech helped the country to realize that it was not just a collection of individual states; it was one unified nation.
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In 1863,it was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War, employed about 20 photographers to meet the public demand for pictures from the battlefront. This was the beginning of American news photography,or photojournalism.
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Grant in turn appointed William Tecumseh Sherman as commander of the military division of the Mississippi. These two appointments
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On January 1, 1863, Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation. the following portion captured national attention.
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A draft that forced men to serve in the army. In the North, conscription led to draft riots, the most violent of which took place in New York City.
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A tax imposed on individuals or on paper that varies with the income or profits of the taxpayer,a tax that takes a specified percentage of an individual’s income.
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It was one of the last battles of the American Civil War. It was the final engagement of Confederate Army general Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen.
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It post the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. In Congress, it was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, and by the House on January 31, 1865.
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The Assassination of President Lincoln is on April 14, 1865, actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C., and fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln.
