Emilee Skillman- Antebellum

  • Market Revolution

    Market Revolution

    The expansion of the marketplace, helped make new roads and canals to connect communities.
  • Santa Fe Trail

    Santa Fe Trail

    The United States used the Santa Fe Trail as an invasion route to Mexico.
  • Know-Nothing Party

    Know-Nothing Party

    It Caused the Civil War because the anti-immigration put a threat on the economic and political side of native born americans.
  • Underground Railroad

    Underground Railroad

    Thousands of slaves escaped from the feilds and went to the underground railroad and went to states that were free.
  • Republican Party

    Opposed slavery in territories.
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

    An effort to defuse the political rivalries. The United States divided evenly, slave and free.
  • Gold Rush

    Gold Rush

    The California Gold Rush brought 300,000 people to the rest of the United States.
  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas was the violent outbreak involving anti-slavery and pro- slavery.