HUSH

By Betsyemma

  • Missouri Compromise

    Compromise said that Missouri could enter into the union and the 3630 line made everything south a slave state and everything north a free state.
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    Andrew Jackson

  • Indian Removal Act

    Forced removal of Natives to the east of the Mississippi.

  • Texas Annexation

    TX was admitted into the union as the 28th state.

  • David Wilmot Proviso

    Banned expansion of slavery into the Mexican territories, passed the House but not the Senate.
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    US-Mexican war

    President James Polk sent troops to Mexico so that Mexico had to fight and took over Mexico City so Mexico had to sign the treaty.

  • Seneca Falls Convention

    First women's​ rights convention.
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    California Gold Rush

    Gold discovered in California​ pushed people to the West.

  • Fugitive Slave Act

    Anyone can go and capture a fugitive slave if they escaped to the North, everyone needs to help, the ​slave cannot testify.

  • Compromise of 1850

    Henry Clay resolution.

  • Uncle Toms Cabin

    Book about abolition.

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Act organized the territories in Kansas and Nebraska.

  • Republican Party formed

  • Gadsden purchase

    Got more land so Gadsden could build the railroad.

  • Dred Scott vs. Sandford

    Dred Scott, a slave, was taken to the North and then back to the South and sued for his freedom, but the Supreme Court ruled that he was still blinded to slavery because of the laws of the South, where he lived then.

  • IL Senate race

  • Election

    Lincoln beats Douglas.