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The northwest ordinance was adopted by the confederation Congress, chartered a government for the northwest territory. It provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory.
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Representatives of the United States and Napoleonic France conclude negotiations for The Louisiana Purchase. It was and land sale that double the size of the young American republic
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Congress passed a bill granting Missouri statehood as a slave state. Under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36th parallel, which runs approximately along the southern border of Missouri
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The Monroe Doctrine was articulated in President James Monroe's seventh annual message to Congress on December 2, 1823. European powers were obligated to respect the Western Hemisphere as the United States sphere of interest.
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In November 1832, the Nullification Convention met. The Convention declared the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 unconstitutional. Also unenforceable within the state of South Carolina after February 1, 1833.
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The Annexation of Texas, the Mexican-American War, and the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo,1845-1848. During his tenure, U.S. President James K.
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The Mexican Cession is the region in the modern-day southwestern United States. Mexico Ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 after the Mexican-American War
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The United States and Great Britain signed the Treaty of Oregon on June 15, 1846. Which ended the 28 years of joint occupancy of the Pacific Northwest. The treaty established the 49th parallel as the border between the two countries
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Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington D.C
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The Kansas Nebraska act repealed the Missouri Compromise. It created two new territories and allowed for popular sovereignty.
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Was the Border War a series of violent civil confrontations in the Kansas Territory. The United States, between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from the political and ideological debate
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This was the first Battle of the Civil War. It happened in the Charleston harbor and lasted only one day. The importance of this Battle was because it was the start of the Civil War
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The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Manassas, marked the first major land battle of the American Civil War. The union and confederate armies clashed near Manassa Junction, Virginia
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Confederate and Union troops in the Civil War clash near Maryland's Antietam Creek in the bloodiest single day in American military history. McClellan was in charge of the Union troops for defending Washinton D.C.
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President Abraham Lincoln issued the emancipation 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.
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1865 president johnson implemented a plan of Reconstruction that gave the white south a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom.Also offered no role to blacks in the politics of the south.
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This Battle is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. After a great victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville. General Robert E. Lee marched his Amry Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania in late June of 1863
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The dedication of a military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, during the American Civil war, President Abraham Lincoln delivers one of the most memorable speeches in American history.
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The Senate took the first crucial step toward the constitutional abolition of slavery.
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Union General William T. 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
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was the period after the Civil War in which the federal government enacted and attempted to enforce equal suffrage on the ex-Confederate states. In Alabama, this period lasted from 1867 to the end of 1874 and was characterized by racial conflict and widespread terrorist activity
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The 14th amendment extended liberties and rights granted by the Bill of Rights to former slaves.
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Granted African American men the right to vote
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The United State supreme court changed everything. The court's "separate but equal" decision in Plessy v. Fergusion on that date upheld state-imposed Jim Crow laws. It became the legal basis for racial segregation.