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-Effort by congress to defuse political rivalries -Wanted to be a slave state -Maine admitted as a free state
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-Policy toward western hemisphere
-Warns Europeans that the US would not tolerate colonization -
-Government forced Indians to walk thousands of miles to an "Indian Territory"
-"Trail of tears and death"
-Whites thought they deserved the land -
-Texas war for independence against Mexico
-Texas won independence
-A war in which everybody died -
-Economic depression
-Van Buren moved federal funds to smaller state banks
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-Pioneers settled on land that was not auctioned off yet
-Squattors Rights -
-American settlers in California rebel against Mexican government
-Wanted California to be an independent state
-Bear flag made official state flag -
-Gold was discovered near there
-Beginning of Gold Rush -
-US annexation of Texas
-Fight over Texas border -
-Federal laws that allowed the capture of runaway slaves
-Return slaves to owners
-Laws repealed -
-Avert crisi between North and South
-Slave trade in Washington DC abolished -
-Treaty between US and Mexico
-US pays Mexico $10 million for land
-Arizona and New Mexico added -
-Slave owners could take their slaves into Western territories
-Debate about slavery in the West -
-Raid intende to establish stronghold of freed slaves
-Southerners feared slave rebellions -
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-Violent political confrontations about anti-slavery
-Kansas rejected proslavery Lecompton Constitution -
-Controversy over slavery
-North beat the South
-Slavery was abolished -
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-Reminded people of a soldiers sacrifice
-One of the most famous speeches in US history -
-All slaves shall be freed
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-Largest battle of the civil war
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-Officially ended slavery
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-Citizenship to everyone born in the US
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-African American men have the right to vote