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Required non-slave states to return escaped slaves to the owners.
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The cotton gin removed the task of picking cotton manually, and sped up processing.
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Armed 50 slaves, tried to gain control of Richmond road, white authorities tipped off, Prosser along with 20 slaves were executed.
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Hundreds of poorly armed slaves marched to New Orleans. U.S. army cut off their path, 60 slaves died and heads of leaders were posted on poles.
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This was the time that the Erie Canal was finished by them digging all the way up to Lake Erie.
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This is the time they were formed and active.
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This was was an attempt to end mail service on Sundays
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Nat Turner, a literate slave led a small band of followers, killed 60 owners the following 2 days.
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This was to prevent slavery in places, and to help the decline in slavery.
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Was planned to force those tribes to cede land promised to them in an earlier treaty.
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This is the date the Mexican Army broke through defenses and completely annihilated the defenders of the Alamo.
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Houston's army won a quick battle against the Mexican forces and gained independence for Texas.
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This is when education became a commodity in Massachusetts.
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This is the time where millions of immigrants were moving into our cities.
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This is when they met for their first meeting.
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This was the time traveling groups traveled the most on the Oregon Trail.
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The time Polk was president.
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When Texas gained independence, the United States declined to incorporate it into the union, largely because northern political interests were against the addition of a new slave state.
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Mormon settlers left and Brigham Young led a group of two children, three women, and 143 men as they traveled on horseback and pulled wagons for three months till on July 22, the first men entered the Salt Lake Valley.
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The Mexican-American war ended February 2, 1848, as the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed.
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The Mexican-American war ended February 2, 1848, as the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed.
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When gold was discovered in California a massive rush of immigrants flooded the borders of California.
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This was a women's rights convention that was held and was the first ever really.
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The Gadsden Purchase was an agreement between the United States and Mexico in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico.
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This is the time they were most active in politics.
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This treaty was to bring peace between the whites and the Sioux who agreed to settle within the Black Hills reservation in the Dakota Territory.
