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Missouri Compromise
-Effort by congress to defuse political rivalries -Wanted to be a slave state -Maine admitted as a free state -
Monroe Doctrine
-Policy toward western hemisphere
-Warns Europeans that the US would not tolerate colonization -
Trail of Tears
-Government forced Indians to walk thousands of miles to an "Indian Territory"
-"Trail of tears and death"
-Whites thought they deserved the land -
Battle of the Alamo
-Texas war for independence against Mexico
-Texas won independence
-A war in which everybody died -
Panic of 1837
-Economic depression
-Van Buren moved federal funds to smaller state banks
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Preemption Act
-Pioneers settled on land that was not auctioned off yet
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Bear Flag Revolt
-American settlers in California rebel against Mexican government
-Wanted California to be an independent state
-Bear flag made official state flag -
Sutter's Fort
-Gold was discovered near there
-Beginning of Gold Rush -
US-Mexican War
-US annexation of Texas
-Fight over Texas border -
Fugitive Slave Law
-Federal laws that allowed the capture of runaway slaves
-Return slaves to owners
-Laws repealed -
Compromise of 1850
-Avert crisi between North and South
-Slave trade in Washington DC abolished -
Gadsden Purchase
-Treaty between US and Mexico
-US pays Mexico $10 million for land
-Arizona and New Mexico added -
Dred Scott Decision
-Slave owners could take their slaves into Western territories
-Debate about slavery in the West -
Harper's Ferry
-Raid intende to establish stronghold of freed slaves
-Southerners feared slave rebellions -
South Carolina seceded from Union
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Bleeding Kansas
-Violent political confrontations about anti-slavery
-Kansas rejected proslavery Lecompton Constitution -
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Civil War
-Controversy over slavery
-North beat the South
-Slavery was abolished -
Mississippi seceded from Union
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Florida seceded from Union
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Alabama seceded from Union
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Georgia seceded from Union
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Louisiana seceded from Union
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Texas seceded from Union
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Virginia seceded from Union
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Arkansas seceded from Union
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North Carolina seceded from Union
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Tennesse seceded from Union
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Gettysburg Address
-Reminded people of a soldiers sacrifice
-One of the most famous speeches in US history -
Emancipation Proclamation
-All slaves shall be freed -
Gettysburg
-Largest battle of the civil war -
13th Amendment
-Officially ended slavery -
14th Amendment
-Citizenship to everyone born in the US -
15th Amendment
-African American men have the right to vote