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  The U.S. got 828,000 square miles of new territory.
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  Compromise between the pro slavery and anti slavery states, that made it illeagal to have slaves north of the louisiana territory.
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  Forcd the native americans out of their homelands, to make room for white americans.
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  Armed fight between U.S. and Centralist Republic of Mexico
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  is a 29,640-square-mile region Arizona and New Mexico that was purchased by the United States.
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  Decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that African Americans could not be American citizens and had no standing to sue in federal court.
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  War begins between union and confederate states.
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  one of the last battles of the American Civil War.
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  John Wilkes Booth assassinates Lincoln at Fords theatre.
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  Civil war ends and reconstruction begins.