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The Missouri Compromise was a United States federal statute devised by Henry Clay. It regulated slavery in the country's western territories by prohibiting the practice in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north, except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri.
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She was one of the most famous conductors and she ran away to get away from the slavery.
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It stretched 780 miles from Independence, Missouri, to Santa Fe in the Mexican providence of New Mexico.
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The main settlement of the colony was named San Felipe de Austin, in Stephen's honor.
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Mexico encouraged Texas to free there slaves.
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It was wrote by William Lloyd Garrison, and it delivered an uncompromising demand: immediate emancipation.
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Turner and more than 50 followers attacked 4 plantations and killed about 50 whites.
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Austin was imprisioned by Santa Anna for inciting a revolution.
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The Texas Revolution began when colonists in the Mexican province of Texas rebelled against the increasingly centralist Mexican government.
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Stretched from independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon.
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A movement that wanted to get rid of slavery.
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Manifest Destiny is a term for the attitude prevalent during the 19th century period of American expansion that the United States not only could, but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast. This attitude helped fuel western settlement, Native American removal and war with Mexico.
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Most Texans hoped that the United States would annex their republic, but U.S. opinion divided along sectional lines.
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In 1844 James Polk, the newly elected president, made a proposition to the Mexican government to purchase the disputed lands. When that offer was rejected, troops from the United States were moved into the disputed territory of Coahuila. These troops were then attacked by Mexican troops, killing about a dozen American troops. These same Mexican troops later laid seige to an American fort along the Rio Grande.
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The North Star was an Antislavery newspaper that was named after the star that guided runaway slaves from freedom.
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Mexico agreed to the Rio Grande as the border between Texas and Mexico and ceded the New Mexico and California territories to the United States.
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Harriet Tubman ran away from her plantation and made it to the Philadelphia.
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Henry Clay worked to shape a compromise that both the North and the South could accept, which is called the Compromise of 1850.
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The escape routes that the runaway slaves used was called the underground railroad.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe published the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which talked about slavery was not just a political contest, but also a great moral struggle.
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It created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois. The initial purpose of the Kansas–Nebraska Act was to open up many thousands of new farms and make feasible a Midwestern Transcontinental Railroad.
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It was a Supreme Court case that led to see if Blacks should be slaves or not.
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It was a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate.
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John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry was an effort by white abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
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Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party. He was the first president from the Republican Party.
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Delegates from the secessionist states met in Montgomery, Alabama, where they formed the Confederate States of America.
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The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War.
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It was fought on July 21, 1861 in Prince William County, Virginia, near the city of Manassas, not far from Washington, D.C. It was the first major battle of the American Civil War.
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It was the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South, fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland Campaign, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil.
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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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The Siege of Vicksburg was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War.
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The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War.
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It was a speech by Lincoln 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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Sherman's March to the Sea is the name commonly given to the military Savannah Campaign in the American Civil War, conducted through Georgia from November 15 to December 21, 1864 by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army.
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The Thirteenth Amendment to 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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Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant met at a private home to arrange a Confederate surrender.
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John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln in the back of the head at Ford's Theatre.
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To help pay for the war, congress collected the nation's first income tax it took a specified percentage of an individual's income.
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It was a draft that forced people into the Military.
