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movement to abolish slavery
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Maine is free state Missouri is a slave state
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Belief US was destined to spread west
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Large trail for moving west. 780 miles from Missouri to New Mexico
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Missouri to Oregon City. Blazed by Marcus and Narcissa Whitman. Proved wagons could travel on the road
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Land named after Stephen F. Austin. A bunch of land grants to families moving west,
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Mexico hath abolished slavery
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Antislavery paper established by William Lloyd Garrison; demanded immediate emancipation.
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Arrested for inciting revolution in 1833.
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Turner and 50 followers attacked 60 white men
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Several rebellions broke out, one was the Texas revolution. After Stephen F. Austin was arrested and Santa Anna suspended local powers.
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Texas joins U.S.; southerners wanted it to extend slavery. Northeners feared it would tip the balance of states with slavery and without it.
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Caused by controversy of Texas' independence from mexico, manifest destiny
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antislavery paper established by Frederick Douglas.
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U.S. received mexico and california territories from mexico for $15 million. Also included present day new mexico, nevada, utah, arizona, colorado, and wyoming.
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California admitted as a free state. In return, south states got residents of new mexico and utah could vote for or against slavery.
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alleged fugitive slaves were not entitled to a trial by jury, anyone convicted of helping a fugitive was liable for a fine of $1,000 and imprisonment for up to six months.
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The system of escape routes slaves used
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Bestseller written for anti-slavery purposes. By Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Leader of the underground railroad and a former slave.
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Law dividing Kansas and Nebraska. Opposed the Missouri Compromise.
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Dred Scott, a slave whose owner took him from
the slave state of Missouri to free territory in Illinois and Wisconsin
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Lincoln challenged Douglas to a debate on slavery. Lincoln lost but gained attention.
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He believed that the time was ripe for similar uprisings in the
United States. Brown secretly obtained financial backing from several prominent Northern abolitionists. Took 21 men to Harper's Ferry. -
All the other candidates split the votes, didn't even appear on southern ballots.
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Delegates from the secessionist states met in
Montgomery, Alabama, where they formed the Confederate
States of America, or Confederacy. They also drew up a
constitution that closely resembled that of the United
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The most important was Fort Sumter, on an island
in Charleston harbor. Lincoln decided to neither abandon Fort Sumter nor reinforce it. He would merely send in “food for hungry men. -
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. The battle was a seesaw affair. In the morning the Union army
gained the upper hand, but the Confederates held firm, inspired by General Thomas J. Jackson -
The clash proved to be the bloodiest
single-day battle in American history, with casualties
totaling more than 26,000. The next day, instead of pursuing
the battered Confederate army into Virginia and possibly
ending the war, McClellan did nothing -
a draft that forced men to serve in the army.
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Document by Lincoln ending slavery.
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Battle that decided the war. By the second day of battle, the Confederates had driven the Union troops
from Gettysburg and had taken control of the town -
Congress decided to help pay for the war by collecting the nation’s first income tax, a tax that takes a specified percentage of an individual’s income.
