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The Northwest Ordinance was a guide to the ways of admitting new states enlisted with a bill of rights that were guaranteed in the territory. Also, the ordinance encouraged gaining an education, and slavery was forbidden. This event is important because it protected civil liberties and banned slavery.
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The Louisiana Purchase was an approved treaty between the United States and the French that granted the U.S. over 800,000 square miles. The purchase comprised of South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, and Iowa, and most of North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Minnesota. This event important because this is a part of the reasoning for the United States gaining more states and an abundance of land.
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It wanted to put effort to balance the power in congress between slave-free states. This was something that congress passed a bill granting Missouri statehood as a slave state. It was replaced by the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
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This doctrine warned European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs. This was important because the doctrine separated the influence in which The United States and European powers would hold.
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This crisis happened during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, which involved a stand from the state of South Carolina in regard to the federal government. South Carolina opposed the force of tariffs. This event was important because the conflict between state and federal authority almost led to a civil war.
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This event led to Texas becoming the 28th state of the United States. Before the process was completed, Texas was debated due to the North wanting to rid of slavery and the South wanting to keep it. This event is important because it eventually led to the Mexican-American War.
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The Oregon Treaty settled the dispute between the United States and Great Britain over land in Oregon. The treaty decided the boundary would be between the 49th parallel west of the Rocky Mountains. This was important because the U.S. was trying to grow with westward expansion
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The treaty ended the war between the United States and Mexico. Along with ending the war, Mexico surrendered parts of present-day Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah to the U.S. This event is important because it ended a war and gained the United States more land.
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This consisted of five laws passed in 1850. They passed laws that dealt with the issue of slavery and territorial expansion. The slave trade in Washington, DC was abolished and the Fugitive Slave Act was amended.
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This act allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. This was important because it was a setback to the progress of the United States.
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Bleeding Kansas was the result of the beliefs between the anti-slavery and pro-slavery. Not either side was innocent, they each committed crimes and got blood on their hands.
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This battle took place in Charleston, SC. The first engagement of the war ended in Rebel's victory. The surrenders for Fort Sumter were the Union forces.
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General Irvin McDowell and General Thomas J. Jackson were apart of this. Union troops had the upper hand in the beginning, the Confederacy was triumphant. Lincoln then replaced McDowell with Geroge McClellan.
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The proclamation did not free all slaves in the United States. It only declared free those slaves living in states not under Union control. This promise was based on the victory of the Union (Lincoln).
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President Lincoln delivered this speech during the time of the Civil War. This speech was important because it encouraged the people to not let the perished ones' deaths be in vain and to continue to fight to save America.
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The people apart of this were George McClellan and Robert E.Lee. 23,000 soldiers lay dead or wounded. Lincoln found the opportunity he needed to love forward with emancipation.
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During this time, President Lincoln chose A. Johnson as his vice president. After Lincoln's assassination, now President Johnson decided to revert and give Confederates back their property if they pledged to be loyal and support the 13th Amendment. Although slavery was not accepted, Johnson was easy going and gave no consequence to brutal beatings of African Americans or "black code" laws. This was important because it was kind of a step forward but still unequal to African Americans.
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The Battle of Vicksburg was the final major military action in the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War. It took place in Warren County, Mississippi. John C. Pemberton was apart of this.
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This battle was the turning point of the Civil War. Over 75,000 people died in this battle. The Union won in this battle.
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General Sherman led soldiers from Atlanta to Savannah, GA. The soldiers did not destroy any of the towns in their path, but they did steal food and livestock and burned the houses and barns of people who tried to fight back. This event was important because Sherman and his soldiers' goal was to scare Georgia's civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause.
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This provides that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime. This was passed in 1865. This was passed by President Lincoln.
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It extended liberties and rights granted by the Bill of Rights to former slaves. It freed all the slaves. It ratified two years later
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This period of time came after the Civil War. The Reconstruction Act of 1867 gave a voice to the Black community. Also during this time, the 14th Amendment was ratified, Johnson was vetoed, and the 15th Amendment was ratified. Things began to turn violent, Ku Klux Klan became a threat to thriving Blacks and Whites that supported Blacks. In this decade, the South suffered poverty, and the Compromise of 1876 marked the end of Reconstruction. This all was important to the progression of the U.S.
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It granted African American men the right to vote. It was citizenship under the "Jim Crow" segregation system. It was approved by the state of Iowa.
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This case happened because Plessy refused to sit in a train car "for blacks". The case ruled that Plessy's rights weren't violated and the "separate but equal" on railroads were justified or "right". This was important because this decision from the courts allowed Jim Crow Laws to continue.
