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Under these agreements Maine was admitted as a free state and MIssouri as a slave state. Under president Madison
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One of the busiest routes which stretched 780 miles from Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe in Mexican provenience in New Mexico
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In 1821 Stephen F. Austin established a colony where "no drunkard, no gambler, no profane swearer, and no idler" would be allowed. The main settlement of colony was named San Felipe de Austin in Stephen's honor. Each family member was granted land.
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One of the most famous conductors was a born slave in Maryland. After Tubman's owner died she had rumors she was about to be sold. Fearing the possibility, Tubman decided to make a break for freedom and succeeded reaching Philadelphia.
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William Lloyd Garrison established his own paper to deliver an uncompromising demand: immediate emancipation
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Many settlers were Southerners, who had brought slaves with them to Texas. Mexico, which had abolished slavery in 1829, insisted in vain that the Texans free their slaves.
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One of the most prominent rebellions was led by Virginia slave. Turner and more than 50 followers attacked four plantations and killed about 60 whites.
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Austin had traveled to Mexico City late in 1833 to present petitions to Mexican president Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna for greater self -government for Texas. While Austin was on his way home, Santa Anna had Austin imprisoned for inciting revolution
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Stretched from the Independence, Missouri to Oregon City, Oregon. It was blazed in 1836 by Methodist missionaries named Marcus and Narcisa Whitman. Proved that wagons could travel on the Oregon Trail.
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the 1836 rebellion in which Texas gained it's independence from Mexico.
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expressed the belief that the United States was ordained to expand to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican and Native American territory.
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In March 1845, angered by U.S.- Texas negotiation on annexation, the Mexican government recalled its ambassador from Washington. On December 19, 1845, Texas entered the Union. Events moved quickly to war.
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The war was initiatedby Mexico and resulted in Mexico's defeat and the loss of approximatey half of its national territory in the north.
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Fredrick Douglass began his own antislavery newspaper. He names it the "North Star," after the star that guided runaway slaves to freedom.
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On Februrary 2 1848, the United States and Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Mexico agreed 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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Clay's compromise contained provisions to appease Northerners as well as Southerners. To please the North, the compromise provided that California be admitted to the Union as a free state. To please the South, the compromise proposed a new and more effective fugitive slave law. Had also provided for sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe published her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which stressed that slavery was not just a political contest, but also a great moral struggle.
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Became a law in 1854. Nebraska in the north and Kansas in the south. The bill would repeal the Missouri Compromise and establish popular sovereigty for both territories.
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Dread Scott was a skave whose owner took him from a slave state of Missouri to free terriotory in Illinois and Wisconsin and back to Missouri. Scott appealed to the Supreme Court for his freedom on the grounds that living in a free state - Illinois- and a free territory- Wisconsin- had made him a free man. The case was in court for years and Supreme Court ruled against him.
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Race for the U.S. senate. Neither wanted slavery in the territories, but they disagreed on how to keep it out. Douglas believed in popular sovereignty. Lincoln believed that slavery was immoral. Douglas won the Senate
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He led a band of 21 men, black and white, into Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now west Virginia.) His aime was to seize the federal arsenal there and start a general slave uprising.
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Republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln emerged with less than half the popular vote and with no electoral votes from the South.
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Delegates from the secessionist states met in Montgomery, Alabama, where they formed the Conferderate States of America, or Confederacy.
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By the time Lincoln's inauguration on March 4, 1861, only four Southern forts remained in the Union hands. The most important was on an island in Charleston harbor.
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McClellan ordered his men to pursue Lee, and the two sides fought on September 17 near a creek called Antietam. The clash proved to be the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with casualties totalling more than 26,000
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Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation. The Proclamation did not free any slaves immediately because it applied only to areas behind Confederate lines, outside Union control
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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. The battle was a seesaw affair. After war soldiers left army and went home.
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A draft that forced men to serve in the army.
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in 1863, Vicksburg was one of the two remaining Confederate strongholds on the Mississippi River.
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most decisive battle of the war was fought. began on July 1 when the Confederate soldiers led by A.P. Hill encountered several brigades of the Union cavalry under the command of John Buford, an experienced officer from Illinois.
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"remade America." The speech helped the county to realize that it was not just a collection of individual staes; it was one unified nation.
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William Tecumseh Sherman began his march southeast through Georgia to the sea, creating a wide path of destruction.
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was ratified at the end of 1865. The U.S. Constitution now stated, "Neither slavery not involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States."
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In a Virginia town, Lee and Grant met at a private home to arrange a Confederate surrender.
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Lincoln died on April 15. John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln then leaped down from the presidential box to the stage and escaped from Ford's Theatre.
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the movement to abolish slavery
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Under the law, alleged fugitive slaves were not enitiled to a trial by jury. In addition, anyone convicted of helping a fugitive was liable for a fine of $1,000 and imprisonment for up to 6 months.
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The system of escape routes they used became known as underground railroad.
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a tax that takes a specified percentage of an individual's income
