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Treaty of Guadalupe ends the Mexican-American War
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package of 5 separate bills passed by Congress to defuse tensions between the North and South over slavery, admitting California as a free state, established popular sovereignty for new mexico/ Utah territories, ending the slave trade in D.C, settling Texas boundary, and enacting a stricter Fugitive slave Act.
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Secret proposal by U.S diplomats to buy Cuba from Spain for 130 million. This fueled the North and south division.
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Began with the Kansas- Nebraska Act, using popular soviernty to let settlers vote if Kansas would be free or a slave state.
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denied citizenship to African Americans, declared Missiouri compromise unconstitutional, and asserted Congress couldn't ban slavery in territories.
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failed attempt by Radical abolitionists to start a slave rebellion by stealing weapons to arm the enslaved people. Increasing North and South tensions.
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South Carolina's secession was due to the fears that Lincoln's anti-slavery would threaten their way of life
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The Draft Riots was a massive riot against the Civil War military draft, caused by economic hardships,racial tension,and resentment toward the wealthy republican government.
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The Republican Party won, Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin.
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Passed by the U.S Congress, that was a wartime measure during the civil war that allowed or the seizure of property. It declared that any property aiding the insurrection was subject to capture and required judicial condemnation.
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After South Carolina seceded, Mississippi,Florida, Alabama,Georgia,Louisiana, and Texas seceded to form the COnfederate states of America
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Lincoln pledged not to interfere with slavery but vowed to preserve the Union.
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After the attack on Fort Sumter, Lincoln called for more troops, after this 4 more southern states seceded and joined the Confederacy.
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Step toward emancipation that declared slaves of Confederate officials "free"
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offered 160 acres of public land to settlers who paid a small fee and would live on the land for 5 years. This enlightened the Westward expansion.
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U.S law that granted federal land to fund colleges based on agriculture,mechanical arts, and military tactics.
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Critical turning points on the American Civil war, this shattered Confederate morale, this gave the Union complete control of the Mississippi River, splitting the Confederacy.
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Executive order by President Abraham Lincoln, effective January 1, 1863, during the Civil War, declaring enslaved people in Confederate states to be free.
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In July 1863, Riots against the draft erupted in New York City, in which a mostly Irish American mob attacked blacks and wealthy whites.
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Union Campaign in 1864, by General Sherman, marching from Atlanta Georgia to Savannah, using total war tactics to destroy Confederate infrastructure, and moral by destroying railroads and factories.
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Lincoln got reelected, Lincoln secured his leadership to guid the Union to victory and end slavery.
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Grant move the western army through the South towards the sea, he defeated COnfederate General Lee in Virginia with his second army, the 2 armies met up and captured Richmond.
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Southern states passed Black codes, to restrict the rights of freedom African Americans, limiting jobs, control the labor and their social lives.
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Lincoln was assassinated on April 14,1865, by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate at the Ford's Theater in D.C. Booth assassinated Lincoln because of his support of Black equality. This was part of a Confederate plot to decapitate the U.S government.
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U.S government agency in 1865 after the Civil war, to aid formerly enslaved people and poor white in the Reconstruction era, providing food, housing,medical aid, and education. Federal effort to transition millions to freedom, established a foundation for Black education and civil rights, shut down in 1872.
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abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the U.S, except as a punished for a crime.
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A major U.S army campaign in Montana and Dakota Territories, which protected miners on Bozeman Trail but failed to defeat tribes.
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Outlaws discrimination based on race,color,religion,sex,and origin
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A group of people who believed in White Supremacy, and killed freedom African Americans who "Didn't know where they belong"
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series of laws passed by the U.S Congress to rebuild the South after the Civil War, which placed the federal military in Confederate states. confederate states were divided into 5 districts and required them to Draft new constitutions that would guarantee black male suffrage and ratifying the 14th Amendment to reenter the Union, insuring civil rights and the reshaping of Southern politics.
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passed by Radical Republicans over President Johnsons veto, designed to limit the presidents power, requiring senate approval or removing certain officials. This was built to protect radical reconstruction allied such as Secretary of War Stanton, Johnson then tried to fire Stanton that led into his impeachment
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He violated the Tenure of Office Act, firing secretary of war, Edwin Stanton.
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July 9, 1868, granted citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S and guaranteeing equal protection of the laws
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Granted African American men the right to vote, ratified in 1870