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Missouri Compromise
-Granted Missouri to be a slave state
-Admitted Maine as a free state
-Drew an imaginary line between slave and slave free states
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Battle of the Alamo
-Texan soldiers defending the Alamo fought off Mexican invaders for 13 days even though they were greatly outnumbered -
Panic of 1837
-A finical crisis in 1837 that started a recession in the US -
Trail of Tears
-Working on behalf of white settlers who wanted to grow cotton on the Indians’ land, the federal government forced them to leave their homelands and walk thousands of miles to a specially designated “Indian territory” across the Mississippi River. This difficult and sometimes deadly journey is known as the Trail of Tears. -
Sutter's Fort
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Pre-Emption Act
- Act passed in response to the demands of the Western states that squatters be allowed to preempt lands.
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Bear Flag Revolt
-A small group of American settlers in California rebelled against the Mexican government and proclaimed California an independent republic. -
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US - Mexican War
-war between the United States and Mexico stemming from the United States’ annexation of Texas and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River or the Rio Grande -
Compromise of 1850
-An attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South
-Part of the compromise was the Fugitive Slave Act -
Fugitive Slave Law
-authorized local governments to seize and return escaped slaves to their owners and imposed penalties on anyone who aided them -
Gadsden Purchase
-A 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased via a treaty signed by James Gadsden -
Bleeding Kansas
-A series of violent political confrontations involving anti-slavery and pro-slavery elements in Kansas -
Dred Scott Decision
-Dred Scott, a slave, attempted to sue for his freedom when he was taken into a slave free state
-He lost under the premise that he was the owners property and property can't be taken without due process of law -
South Carolina secession
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Harper's Ferry
-Because of the town's strategic location on the railroad and at the northern end of the Shenandoah Valley, both Union and Confederate troops moved through Harpers Ferry frequently in the Civil War -
Mississippi secession
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Florida secession
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Alabama secession
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Georgia secession
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Louisiana secession
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Texas secession
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Civil War
-War between the north Union and south Confederates over slavery and states rights
-Union won, unifying the country as an anti slave country -
Virginia secession
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Arkansas secession
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North Carolina secession
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Tennessee secession
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Emancipation Proclamation
-Made all slaves in the rebellious states free in the Civil War -
Gettysburg
-Turning point in the Civil War
-Battle with the most casualties of the entire war -
Gettysburg Address
-Invoked the principles of human equality contained in the Declaration of Independence
-Connected the sacrifices of the Civil War with the desire for “a new birth of freedom” -
13th Amendment
-abolished slavery -
14th Amendment
-granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed. -
15th Amendment
-granted African American men the right to vote.