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Missouri Compromise
A compromise that said that Maine would be a free state, Missouri would be a slave state, and the 36 30 line would be the divider between slave and free, with all states South would be slave, and all states North would be free -
2nd Great Awakening/Rise of Abolitionism
2nd Great Awakening was where Protestants had a religious revival. The Rise of Abolitionism was where abolitionism rose -
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Gag Resolution
Forbade the house from hearing any anti-slavery petitions. -
Election of 1844
James K. Polk won over Henry Clay. Polk promised to annex Texas and seize Oregon, and he believed in Manifest Destiny. -
Annexation of Texas
Rep. of Texas declared independence from Mexico on March 2, 1836, got annexed in 1845. -
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Mexican-American War
Mexico and the US disputed the boundary between the two nations. A war broke out, with the US winning. Mexico sold the US New Mexico and California, and acknowledged the Rio Grande as the boundary between the two countries. The US payed Mexico $15 Million. -
Compromise of 1850
-California admitted to US as a free state
- govs. formed in lands acquired from Mexico(no restrictions on slavery)
-Slave TRADE abolished in DC
-More effective fugitive slave law (required return of runaway slaves) -
Creation of the Republican Party
Some Whigs and Democrats who were enraged over the Kansas-Nebraska Act split off from their parties and formed the Republican Party -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Let people in Kansas an Nebraska choose whether or not they would be slave states -
Bleeding Kansas
A series of confrontations in Kansas over slavery. -
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Dred Scott was a slave, his master died while they were in a free state. Scott tried to sue for his freedom, but the Supreme Court ruled that slaves were property and couldn't sue. The Court also said Congress couldn't ban slavery in US territories -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
A series of debates between Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas. Heart of debates was slavery. Douglas had no moral position about it, and Lincoln claimed not to care, but said that it deprived free people of jobs, and shouldn't spread -
Election of 1860
Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. The South grew angry at this, major cause of war. -
Thesis
The acquisition of New Western territories greatly affected American politics between 1820-1860, because it raised tensions over slavery between the North and South, and eventually led to the Civil War.
