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These agreements made Maine a free state and Missouri as a slave state. A dividing line was set at 36,30 north latitude. South of line slavery was permtted. In the North, not permitted.
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After Mexico won the War against Spain, they offered land to Americans.Stephen F. Austin established a colony to make it free from sins.
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William Lloyd Garrison established his own paper to deilver an uncompromising demand, immediate emancipation.
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Mexicans abolished slavery in 1829, insisted in vain that the Texans free their slaves too. There we're differences between cultures.
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Stretched from Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico. One of the busiest routes.
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Him and more than 50 slaves attacked four plantations and killed about 60 whites. Whites eventually captured the rebellion and executed them
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Austin jailed to inciting revolution in 1833.
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Revolution that America got independece from Mexico.
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Stretched from Missouri to Oregon City. First travelers We're two Methodist missionaries. They proved wagons could travel on the Oregon Trail.
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Belief that U.S was ordained to move westward and it was obvious and inevitable.
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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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The South annexed Texas and made it a slave state.
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A two year war on the fight for Mexican land. Ended with the treaty of Hidalgo, which set boundaries to what we have today.
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Fredrick Douglass escaped slavery and wrote his own paper, That guided runaway slaves to freedom 1847.
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Mexico agreed to the Rio Grande as the border between Texas and Mexico and ceded the New Mexco and California territories to the United States.
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One of the most famous conductors. She helped 300 slaves including her own parents, flee to freedom.
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Henry Clay attempted to compromise and avert a potential crisis against the North and South.
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Made slave trade illegal in Washington D.C.
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The Bloodiest battle in American History with 26,000 dead. The Confederates retreated after the war, the Union general did nothing.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which stressed that slavery was not just a political contest, but also a great moral struggle.
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Steohen Douglas:Conflict between Nebraska being a free or slave state. Kansas became a slave state
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Dread Scott was a free slave brought back to the south as a slave, Sued because he was living in free territory. Appealed to the supreme court.
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Harriet Tubman, provided with secret tunnels, fake hiding places, food, water.
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Neither wanted slavery but but they disagreed on hot to keep it out. Douglas won the senate seat, Republicans looked to Lincoln as a candidate for presidency.
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Raided Virginia's arsenal, captured it with the hope of the slaves joining him, but they didnt.
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The south seceded from the United States and called themselves the Confederacy. Protected and recognized slavery in the South.
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Pledged to halt the further spread of slavery, also tried to reassure Sputhereners that a Republican administration would not interfere with their slaves. Many southereners viewed him as an enemy.
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On an island in Charleston harbor, South tried to seize federal installations, forts. Lincoln sent food. The deadly struggle against the North and South was under way.
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A draft that forced men to serve in the army.
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50000 troops died. A complex war over Gettysburg and ended witha Northern win.
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Lincoln, "remade america". A speech that helped the country to realize that it was not just a collection of individual states; it was one unified nation.
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Union General Ulysses S. Grant fought to take one of the two remaining Confederate Strongholds on the Missiippi river.
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Lincoln in 1863 issued the Proclamation to capture national attention. It said "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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A little creek just 25 miles away from D.C, Confederates won and thought the war was over, they went home exhausted
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A tax that takes a specified perentage of an individual's income.
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Burned every house on his way to the sea. He wanted to make the southerners so sick of war. Sherman and 25000 slaves turned to the North to help Grant.
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Lee and Grant in Virginia arranged to a Confederate surrender. Within a month, Confederate resistance collapsed. After 4 years, the war was over.
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Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted shall exist with the United States.
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John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln and shot him in the head. He was shot dead after he was found in a tobacco field.
