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Northwest Ordinance
intensified nationalism
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Louisiana Purchase
was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France.In return for fifteen million dollars, or approximately eighteen dollars per square mile, the United States nominally acquired a total of 828,000 sq mi. -
Missouri Compromise
When the Missouri Territory first applied for statehood in 1818, it was clear that many in the territory wanted to allow slavery in the new state. Part of the more than 800,000 square miles bought from France in the Louisiana Purchasein 1803, it was known as the Louisiana Territory until 1812, when it was renamed to avoid confusion -
Monroe Doctrine
a principle of US policy, originated by President James Monroe in 1823, that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US. -
Nullification Crisis
The nullification crisis was a United States sectional political crisis in 1832–33, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, which involved a confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government. It ensued after South Carolina declared that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign boundaries of the state. -
Texas Annexation
The Texas annexation was the 1845 annexation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America. which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state on December 29, 1845. -
Oregon Treaty
The Oregon Treaty is a treaty between Great Britain and the United States that was signed on June 15, 1846, in Washington. The treaty brought an end to the Oregon boundary dispute by settling competing American and British claims to the Oregon Country; the area had been jointly occupied by both Britain and the U.S. since the Treaty of 1818. -
Mexican Cession (Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo)
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, that brought an official end to the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), was signed on February 2, 1848, at Guadalupe Hidalgo, a city north of the capital where the Mexican government had fled with the advance of U.S. forces. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War. It also set Texas's western and northern borders and included provisions addressing fugitive slaves and the slave trade. -
Kansas - Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´. -
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Bleeding (Bloody) Kansas
Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas, or the Border War was a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, United States, between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter was important because it was the flashpoint that set off the American Civil War. Prior to the bombardment there was great uncertainty as to what was going to happen with the seceding states. -
Battle of Bull Run
First Battle of Bull Run, also called First Battle of Manassas , Battle of First Manassas, or Manassas Junction, (July 21, 1861), in the American Civil War, the first of two engagements fought at a small stream named Bull Run, near Manassas in northern Virginia. -
battle of antietam
Interesting Battle of Antietam Facts: The Battle of Antietam took place near Antietam Creek in Sharpsbug, Maryland. The battle was fought on September 17 1862. This was South's first invasion of a state in the North, although Maryland was a border state and many people of Maryland were unhappy about being part of the Union. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation, or Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862, during the Civil War. -
Battle of Vicksburg
The Vicksburg campaign was a series of maneuvers and battles in the Western Theater of the American Civil War directed against Vicksburg, Mississippi, a fortress city that dominated the last Confederate-controlled section of the Mississippi River. -
Battle of Gettysburg
he Battle of Gettysburg stands as an important milestone in the History of America for two reasons. Firstly, this war turned out to be extremely significant in terms of putting an end to the Civil War , paving way for negotiations and furnishing the establishment of a democratic government. -
Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address is a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg. -
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Presidential Reconstruction
Presidential Reconstruction 1863-1867 Phase 1 of rebuilding after civil war in which the president directed the process of setting up new state government. He wanted it to be done quickly, because he wanted to preserve the union and felt that it would be a good strategy to gain southern support. -
Sherman’s March to the Sea
Sherman led some 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. The purpose of Sherman's March to the Sea was to frighten Georgia's civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause. -
13th amendment passed
The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. -
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Congressional Reconstruction
The Reconstruction Era After losing much support within Congress, Johnson's presidency started to decline, as Radical Republicans start to increase in numbers and allies. After the election of 1866, the Radical Republicans had almost all control over any policy-making within Congress. -
14th amendment passed
The Fourteenth Amendment it addresses citizenship rights and equal protection under the law and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War. -
15th amendment passed
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. The case stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a car for blacks.