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11th president of the USA. Served one term.
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The United States fought Mexico over a dispute in the territory that is now Texas. The United States won the war, and both countries signed the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, ending the conflict in 1848.
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The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo was signed on February 2nd, 1848, ending the Mexican-American War. This caused conflict among the Union, because it meant there was plenty of states that would want to apply for statehood into the union. This would mean there would be debates about whether they would be slave states or free states.
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12th president of the USA. Died a year into Presidency.
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13th President of the USA. Served one term.
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The Fugitive Slave Act, a part of the compromise of 1850, made any federal official that did not report a runaway slave be forced to pay a fine. This angered abolitionists and caused them to fight harder against the institution of slavery.
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"Uncle Tom's Cabin" was a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe to show the evils and the horrors of slavery. This created abolitionist propaganda, pushing many northerners to the anti-slavery side.
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14th President of the United States. Served one term.
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The phrase "Bleeding Kansas" is a term that is used to describe the time when pro-slave southerners and anti-slave northerners clashed in the new state of Kansas. Violence ensued for about a year.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed as an attempt to create more land to create a larger railroad system. However, when Kansas was admitted as a state, it became a free state, much to the anger of many southern pro-slavery democrats.
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Charles Sumner gave an anti-slavery speech on the floor of the Senate, when he was suddenly attacked by Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery senator, with his cane. This ignited a fierce debate on the issue of slavery in Congress and created a divide between North and South.
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15th president of the USA. Served one term.
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Abraham Lincoln was elected as president, much to the dismay of Southern Democrats. As a result of the election many states in the South gradually secede from the Union.
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South Carolina Secedes from the Union, with others soon to follow suit.
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Mississippi becomes the 2nd state to remove itself from the Union. Others will follow.
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Florida becomes the 3rd state to remove itself from the Union. Others will soon follow.
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Alabama becomes the 4th state to remove itself from the Union. Others will soon follow.
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Georgia becomes the 5th state to remove itself from the Union. Others will soon follow.
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Lousiana becomes the 6th state to remove itself from the Union. Others will soon follow.
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Texas becomes the 7th state to remove itself from the Union. Others will soon follow.
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On the brink of his 2nd term, but was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford Theater.
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The Confederate States of America bombarded Fort Sumter, sparking the American Civil War. Nobody on either side was killed during the actual bombardment, although one man died during the surrender ceremony of the fort by being hit with a cannonball being shot out accidentally.
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Virginia becomes the 8th state to remove itself from the Union. Others will soon follow.
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Arkansas becomes the 9th state to remove itself from the Union. Others will soon follow.
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North Carolina becomes the 10th state to remove itself from the Union. Others will soon follow.
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Tennessee becomes the 11th state to remove itself from the Union. Others will soon follow.
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Missouri becomes the 12th state to remove itself from the Union. Others will soon follow.
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Kentucky becomes the 13th state to remove itself from the Union. It is the last state to do so.
