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Missouri Compromise 1820-1821
During leadership of Henry Clay, passed by Congress
Maine was admitted as a free state
Missouri was admitted as a slave state
Louisiana Territory split in 2, South of the line, slavery=legal, North of the line,(except in Missouri) slavery= banned -
Harriet Tubman
Born in 1820/1821
Born a slave in Maryland -
Santa Fe Trail
stretched 780 miles from Independence,Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico -
San Felipe de Austin
Main settlement of the colony
Stephen Austin issued 297 land grants -
The Liberator
Written by William Lloyd Garrison to deliver an uncompromising demand: immediate emancipation -
Mexico abolishes slavery
This was a problem in Texas, because most of the population was for slavery and didn't want it gone. -
Abolition
The movement to abolish slavery
Became one of the most important of a series of reform movements in America -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Led by Nat Turner, a Virginia slave
50+ followers attacked 4 plantations and killed 60 white people
Turner was later caught and executed -
Stephen F. Austin Goes To Jail
1833
He was imprisoned for "inciting revolution" -
Oregon Trail
Stretched from Independence, Missouri to Oregon City, Oregon
Blazed by Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
Proved that wagons could travel on the Oregon Trail -
Texas Revolution
Rebellion in which Texas gained its independence from Mexico -
Manifest Destiny
Expressed the belief that the US was ordained to expand to the Pacific Ocean into Mexican & Native American territory -
Texas enters the United States
28th state of the union
Bill signed by Polk -
Mexican-American War
1846-February 2, 1848 -
The North Star
Written by Frederick Douglass to help abolish slavery -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Ended the Mexican-American War
Mexico agreed the Rio Grande is the border between Texas and Mexico
Mexico ceded California and New Mexico to the United States -
Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman, used to help slaves escape -
Fugitive Slave Act
Fugitive slaves were not entitled to a trial by jury
Anyone convicted of helping a fugitive had to pay a fine of $1,000 and were imprisoned for up to 6 months -
Compromise of 1850
Proposed by Henry Clay
A series of resolutions
Contained provisions to appease Northerners and Southerners -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, about slavery -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves what to do about slavery in their own states. -
Dread Scott vs Sandford
Dread Scott was a slave whose owner took him from Missouri to Illinois and Wisconsin, then back to Missouri. He sued because by law, he was a free man due to living in Illinois and Wisconsin. Dread Scott lost the ruling. -
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas Debates
Neither wanted slavery in their territories, disagreed on how to keep it out
Douglas won -
John Brown's raid/Harpers Ferry
John led 21 men(black and white) into Harpers Ferry, Virginia
John ended up being caught and killed -
Abraham Lincoln becomes president
He was against slavery
His views appealed to most people -
Formation of the Confederacy
February 1861
Mississippi, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas
Jefferson Davis was president -
Attack on Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter was attacked
Lincoln refused to abandon it but also refused to reinforce it
Fort Sumter fell -
Battle of Bull Run
25 miles from Washington D.C.
Confederate victory -
Battle of Antietam
Bloodiest single-day battle in American history
More than 26,000 casualties
Lincoln removed McClellan from comman -
Emancipation Proclamation
Speech by Abraham Lincoln
Promising to abolish slavery everywhere -
Battle at Vicksburg
Union troops fought to take Vicksburg from the Confederates
Union general, Grant, won for the Union -
Battle at Gettysburg
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
90,000 Union troops against 75,000 Confederate troops
23,000 Union killed/wounded, 28,000 Confederate killed/wounded -
Gettysburg Address
President Lincoln
"Four score and seven years ago..." -
Sherman's March
Led by Sherman
His army burned almost every house in their path, destroyed livestock and railroads
In the end, turned north to help Grant -
Surrender at Appomattox Court House
Virginia
Lee and Grant met to arrange a Confederate surrender -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Ford's Theatre in Washington
Killed by John Wilkes Booth -
Thirteenth Amendment
"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." -
Conscription
A draft that forced men to serve in the army -
Income Tax
A tax that takes a specified percentage of an individual's income
