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Declared Slavery was illegal in the Northwest Territory. Also set the precedent for how new states would enter the union.
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President Thomas Jefferson purchased the territory through the Louisiana Purchase treaty from France
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Admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It also drew the line for the expansion of slavery at "36'30" line
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President James Monroe issues this Doctrine to warn European countries not to recolonize Latin American.
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John C. Calhoun from South Carolina and he made it so sates have the right to declare a federal law or tax, also null and void if it harms that state.
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Mexico refused to acknowledge Texas independence, and Texas could not be admitted as a new state because of the border dispute and the slavery issue.
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Negotiations led to the Oregon Treaty of 1846 granting US control south of the 49th parallel and avoiding war.
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Contained territories that made up most of the rest of the southwestern United States. Completed manifest destiny by giving Americans control of land from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
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Introduced the principle of popular sovereignty. Also California as a free state.
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Competition of pro- slavery and anti- slavery forces turned conflict violent. This eventually led to the emergence of a new Party The Republican Party
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Overturned the Missouri Compromise by allowing popular sovereignty north of 36'30".
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On July 1861 at Bull Run Creek outside Manassas, Virginia, General Irvin McDowell (Union) and General Thomas J. Jackson (Confederacy). The Confederate won.
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When confederate forces fired on the Union held garrison. The garrison commander surrendered on April 13th, and was evacuated the next day.
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On September 1862 in Antietam Creek, Sharpsburg, Maryland, General George McClellan (Union) and General Robert E. Lee (Confederacy). This single bloodiest day of the war 23,000 soldiers laid dead or wounded.
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The turning Point. This document did not free the slaves. It did not attempt to free slaves in the regions under Confederate control or in the border states. Emancipation was announced he promoted it as a “military measure” against the Confederacy.
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Lincoln and Johnson, The 10% Plan. Lincoln only 10% of the voters on the 1860 election need to oath to the union and accept terms of Emancipation and Johnson wanted to continue Lincoln's broad Reconstruction Plan.
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May 1863 in Vicksburg, Mississippi General Ulysses S. Grant (Union) and General John Pemberton (Confederacy). This was the Union Victory
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July 1863 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania General George G. Meade (Union) and General Robert E. Lee (Confederacy). This was another victory for the Union
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November 1863 in Gettysburg Pennsylvania Abraham Lincoln visits the Gettysburg battle field to dedicate a cemetery for the fallen soldiers.
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William Tecumseh Sherman also followed the total war strategy. He led his forces on a march to the sea from the Tennessee-Georgia border, utilizing scorched earth methods. His main objective was to capture the port at Savannah, Georgia.
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February 1865 Congress, with Lincoln’s support, proposes the 13th Amendment.
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Republicans in Congress passed a Congressional Reconstruction plan.
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Grants birthright citizenship and Must grant African Americans the right to vote.
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Allows all men to vote this was motivated by desire to ensure right to vote and by desire of Republican party to establish its political power in the South.
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Separate but equal Supreme Court upheld/legalized segregation and discrimination-govt abandons protecting rights.