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Stephen Austin
He travels to MX City to compromise with the government. He wrote "Texas should start peacefully organizing its own state government." Many concessions were coming from A.Lopez de Santa Anna, the president of Mexico. -
Stephen Austin
He was arrested for treason. -
Start of Mexican/American war
The Settlers' army first tried to attack MExican force. -
retreated to San Antonio
The Mexican force had not given any orders by the president to attack. Therefore, they retreted to San Antonio where Texans followed them and forced a mojor Mexican force out of the big city. -
Wilmot Proviso
Wilmot added an addition to the war. He stated "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist." This was passed in the House of Representatives. -
compromise of 1850
It didn't pass clay's bill because of president Taylor objecting it. Although Douglass made it to where there are more smaller bills than one large compromise, Then the people were allowed to vote in the areas they do agree to instead of not voting because of one section they don't agree too. This was passed in September. -
Fugitive Slave Act
This is part of the compromise of 1850. Slaveholders can point out runaways. The slaves would go under custody. -
underground railroads
This system was to help slaves run away to the North for freedom. There was a leader, called a conductor, to guide all the slaves through a safe and secret route. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This women started started writing a book and within the next year of it being finished it sold 300,000 copies. This book discribed to the nation what people don't see what the government is doing and how slavery really is. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
These states were both territories when this was occuring. They both were in the porocess of becoming a state and wasn't sure if Nebraska should be a slave state or not. Nebraska had the choise to allow slavery if they chose to. The settlement was to have Kansas as a slave state and Nebraska a free state. -
Bleeding Kansas
This was the first battle between slavery and opposing states. missourians went across the border illegally to Kansas to vote illegally for pro- slavery. -
Ostend Manirfesto
This was a document made for the purcahsae of Spain and Cuba from the United States. The United States stated that if they refused we would go to war with them. Cuba was left to becoming a slave state but with the Kansas Nebraka Act they weren't sure of to situatation anymore. -
Canning of Charles Sumner
This ended an era of compromise and sectionalism. It was one of the most violent things that happened in history. The people blamed him for the bloody fighting that occured and for the deaths of the abolitionist. That lead to the attack of Sumners. He was beaten with a cane. -
john brown's raid
This was the plan and raid to try to seperate the north and the south. Brown and his group of men went marching for the revenge of taking weapons away for the U.S and for destroying to slave system citizens have made in the South. -
Dred Scott Decision
This was a ruling made by the Supreme Court in 1857, This occured right before the civil war started. Dred Scott was a slave that tried to argue for his freedom. He claimed that he was a free slave because him and his master lived in a free state. The court made the decision that he wasn't a free slave because he was a piece of property belonging to his owner, therefore he was not a citizen to the United States.
