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Maine was admitted as a free state and Missouri was a slave state. And Louisiana was split in half and south of the line the states slavery was legal and north of the line slavery was banned. At that time the President was James Monroe.
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It was one of the most busiest trails and it stretched 780 miles. Many settlers and traders brought their wagons on this trail.
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It was the main settlement of the colony and it was in favor of Stephen F. Austin. Austin had issue 297 land grants to the group that later became known as texas old three hundred
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Many Americans who moved to Texas brought their slaves with them and at that time Mexico had abolished slavery. And the Mexicans wanted the Texans to free their slaves.
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the movement to get rid of slavery, which was the most important of a series of reform movements in America
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Nat turner was a slave who lead a small rebellion with about 50 followers and attacked 4 plantations and killed 60 white people.
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William Lloyd Garrison wrote the liberator and it was about delivering an uncompromising demand: immediate emancipation.
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while Stephen was on his way home Santa Anna imprisoned him for inciting the revolution.
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tensions between Mexico and Texas grow when mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of gonzales, sparking the Texan war for independence
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It started from Missouri to Oregon, and was founded by two missionaries named Marcus and Narcissa Whitman. What they did was they set it on fire so that it was easier to travel to the west.
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The United States established to expand to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican and Native American territory
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people from the south wanted Texas in order to extend slavery and the people from the north feared that the extension of more slave states would tip the uneasy balance in the senate in favor of the slave states
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Texas gained its independence from Mexico in 1836. At first the united states didn't want to incorporate Texas in the union because northern political interests were against the addition of a new slave state. The Mexican government was also encouraging border raids and warning that any attempt at annexation would lead to war.
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Frederick Douglass wrote the North star and it was an anti slavery newspaper.
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The United States and Mexico signed the treaty. Mexico agreed to the Rio grande as the border between Texas and mexico and ceded the new mexico and California territory to the united states
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Harriet Tubman was the founder of the Underground Railroad, and its main purpose was to help slaves hide in tunnels and false cupboards and the people who ran it gave them food and clothing.
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She was the founder of the underground railroad and she was one of the most famous leaders for the railroad. She made 19 trips back to the south and historians say that she helped 300 slaves.
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Henry clays compromise contained provisions to appease northerners as well as the southerners
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The author of the book was Harriet Beecher Stowe. And the book was about how much she hated slavery and that slavery was not just a political contest but a great moral struggle.
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Stephen A. Douglas introduced s bill to congress which would divide the area into two territories. Nebraska in the north and Kansas in the south.
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Dred Scott was a slave whose owner took him from the slave state of Missouri to a free territory in Illinois and Wisconsin and back to Missouri. He sued the court for his freedom because he lived in the free states which made him a free man. In the end the court ruled against him
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Lincoln challenged douglas to a war of debates. Douglas fought over popular sovereignty and Lincoln fought a "house divided could not stand"
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John Brown was an abolitionist studying the slave uprisings. He led a group of 21 men, black and white, into Harper's Ferry, Virginia. His main goal was to seize the federal arsenal there and start a general slave uprising.
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Lincoln appeared to be moderate in his views and he plead to halt the further spread of slavery. Lincoln convinced Southerners who had viewed the struggle over slavery party as a conflict between the states.
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Delegates of the secessionist states met in Montgomery, Alabama where they formed the confederate states of America
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It was an Island in charleston harbor. Lincoln did not want to abandon the fort or reinforce it. So he decided to send in "food for hungry men".
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THe clash proved to be the bloodiest single day battle in American History, with casualties totaling more than 26,000. The next day instead of pursuing the battered Confederate army into virginia and possibly ending the war.
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Abraham Lincoln issued his emancipation proclamation on January 1st, 1863.
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Grant ordered two frontal attacks on Vicksburg, neither of which succeeded. So, in the last week of May 1863, Grant settled in for a siege. And after the food supplies ran so low the confederate command of Vicksburg asked grant for terms of surrender.
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July 1, 1863, the Confederacy and the Union met around the sleepy town and a three-day battle ensued. The Union won
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It was Lincolns address to remake America
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Sherman and his army started to march from the southeast through the Georgia sea, creating a path of destruction. He burned almost every house, livestock and railroads. He wanted to make the southerners so sick of war. Sherman and his army followed by 25,000 former slaves the north turned to help grant wipe out lee.
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in a town in Virginia called Appomattox, lee and grant met at a private house to arrange a confederate surrender.
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Lincoln and his wife went to Fords Theater in Washington to see a British comedy. During the third act a man came up behind Abe and shot him in the back of his head. The man who killed Lincoln was named John Wilkes Booth
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The U.S Constitution now stated "neither slavery nor 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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Slave were not allowed to have a trail by jury and if anyone was found helping a slave they would get fined $1,000
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It was only 25 Washington D.C. and it was a seesaw affair. In the morning the union army gained the upper hand, but the Confederates held firm, inspired by general Thomas J Jackson.
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The war led to social upheaval and political unrest in both the North and the South. As the fighting intensified, heavy casualties and widespread desertions led each side to impose
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a tax that takes a specified percentage of an individual’s income
