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the construction of a railroad connecting Baltimore and Ohio begins to be built
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Acting under the Indian Romval Act of 1830, the indians were forced off their land and made to walk to reservations in what is now Oklahoma, many Cherokees died during the travel
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the 2000 mile trail goes from the Missouri River into the pacific northwest
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The Indian Removal Act granted President Andrew Jackson the funding and authority to remove the Indians residing east of the Mississippi River
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Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that the Cherokees comprised a "domestic dependent nation" within Georgia and thus deserved protection from harassment.
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Group of men declare independence from Mexico, fighting breaks out soon after
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Federal agents persuaded a pro-removal Cherokee chief to sign the Treaty of New Echota, which ceded all Cherokee land for $5.6 million and free transportation west.
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The 1846 Wilmot Proviso was an attempt by opponents of slavery to prevent its introduction in the territories purchased from Mexico following the Mexican War. The proviso never passed both houses of Congress, but it did ignite an intense national debate over slavery that led to the creation of the antislavery Republican Party in 1854.
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set the border line between the United States and Canada
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo cedes Texas, New Mexico, and California to the United States
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Greatest mass migration of the time, popualtion of California went from 13000 to 80000 within the year from people looking to get rich off gold
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Admitted Calfornia as a free state while banning slavery in the District of Columbia, also amended the Fugitive Slave Act
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With the compromise of 1850, California is admitted into the Union as a free state
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Purchase of land near the Mexican border that helped the United States in the creation of the Transcontinental Railroad
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admitted both states into the Union under idea of popular sovereignty to decide whether free or slave state
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Slavery was to be decided by popular sovereignty, however both northern and southerners resided and had conflicting views resulting in violence
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