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missouri compromise
who: Congress
What: Rising tensions over slavery in new territories needed a compromise from pro slavery congressmen and anti slavery congressmen
How: with the Louisiana purchase new territories were needed designation as slave states or not slave states -
Nat Turner rebellion
Who: Nat Turner and 70 cohorts
What: Nat Turner started a slave rebellion that killed 60+ white Americans before the rebellion was disbanded by the militia Nat turner was tried and hung
Where: Virginia
Why: Nat Turner was planning to rebel against his slave master and he took 2 solar eclipses as a sign from god to start his rebellion. -
The oregon trail
Who: western prospectors
What: Prospectors head up to Oregon because of the promise of gold reserves
Where: Oregon
Why: many us citizens back in 1840 were very poor and wanted to find ways to make money and gold prospecting was one way -
manifest destiny
Who: John O Sullivan
What: John O Sullivan describes manifest destiny as the Anglo Saxons god given right to expand westward to the Atlantic
Where: the united states
Why:John O Sullivan was convinced that us citizens should expand west even if it meant taking territories from allies -
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Mexican american war
Who: the united states and the Mexican government
What: the US went to war with Mexico and gained territories such as Texas and Nevada
Where: Mexico
Why: President James k Polk was a strong believer in manifest destiny and wanted to take the territories Mexico had in northern America even if it meant going to war. -
compromise of 1850
Who: Henry Clay and Stephen Douglas
What: Stephen Douglas and Henry clay Drafted up the compromise of 1850. Which made it so that slavery could not expand to other states. but it also strengthened the fugitive slave act which requires northerners to turn over run away slaves to their master.
Where: The united states of america
Why: There was a lot of tension between the north and the south and if action was not taken a war would have started. so the compromise of 1850 delayed that for a while. -
Uncle toms cabin
Who: Harriet Beecher Stowe
What: Harriet Beecher Stowe writes the book uncle toms cabin which depicts. slaver as an ungodly thing and out sold the bible
Where: Conneticut
Why: Harriet Beecher Stowe wanted to spread the word of how awful slavery was. -
Bleeding Kansas 1854-61
Who: northern carpet baggers and southern border ruffians
What: Kansas was allowed to vote on whether or not it wanted slavery so carpet baggers from the north and border ruffians from The south had bloody conflicts in Kansas
where: Kansas
Why: Stephen Douglas passed the Kansas- Nebraska act to introduce popular sovereignty to the U.S. Which turned out to be a horrible idea. -
dredd scott v sandford
who: dredd scott, The supreme court
What: a slave from virginia named dredd scott sued his master for his freedom but the supreme court ruled dredd scott as property therefore giving him no legal rights this decision widened the divide between pro slave and anti slave
Where: Washington D.C.
Why: Dredd scotts master had traveled to northern territories where slavery was not allowed with his slaves therefore creating dredd scotts case. -
John Browns raid on harpers ferry
Who: John Brown and his men
What: John Brown decided to lead a raid on harpers fairy in order to supply slaves with firearms for a revolt
Where: Harpers ferry west virginia
Why: John Brown was a radical abolitionist who believed that he was gods messenger to free all of the slaves So he wanted to start a slave uprising -
Abraham Lincolns election
Who: Abraham Lincoln
What: A senator from Illinois who has a strong reputation of being an abolitionist wins the 1860 presidential election and causes southern states to secede from the union
Where: The united states
How: Abraham Lincoln won the election due to his great speeches and political views. -
The battle at fort sumter
Who: The union and the confederacy
What: The confederate forces assault the union controlled fort Sumter sparking the civil war
Where: Fort Sumter south Carolina
Why: The recently defected confederacy wanted to take all of the military structures in southern territories so fort Sumter was attacked -
First battle of bull run
Who: The union and the confederacy
What: The first major conflict of the civil war was a crippling defeat for the union making Lincoln realize that it would be a long war
Where: Bull run, Washington
why: The union wanted the confederate states to rejoin the union and re unite the country even if by force. -
Homestead act
Who: The united states
What: The united states government gives land to farmers and ranchers for five years in order to improve it
Where: The united states
Why: the united states government wanted improved lands -
Second battle of bull run
Who: The union and the confederacy
What: The union army with 75000 union troops is defeated by the 55000 confederacy troops and forces a union retreat to Washington
Where: Northern Virginia, Bull run
Why: The union thought they could beat the fortified confederate position at bull run and they wee wrong. -
Antietam
Who: The union and the confederacy
What: Confederate soldiers assault a union position in Antietam and are forced back in the bloodiest battle of the civil war the first union victory.
Where: Antietam, Maryland
Why: The recent confederate victories gave confidence in taking union positions farther to the north the battle of Antietam stopped this. -
Battle of gettysburg
Who: The union and the confederacy
What: The turning point in the war, The battle of Gettysburg allowed the union to take the Mississippi and split the confederacy in two
Where: Gettysburg Pennsylvania
Why: The confederacy thought it could take northern territories but with the unions technological and numerical superiority the thoughts of taking the north ceased. -
start of reconstruction
Who: congress and president Johnson
What: the mostly republican congress wanted to punish the south for seceding by making confederate states draft a new constitution and ratifying the 13th 14th and 15th amendments.
Where: The united states
Why: The south seceding caused the civil war and costed countless American lives so congress wanted to punish the people in charge of that decision. -
Ratification of the 13th amendment
Who: congress and newly freed slaves
What: congress adds an amendment to the constitution stating that all slaves were now freed
Where: the united states
Why: lincoln started the movement to free the slaves and -
Rise of the klu klux klan
Who: radical confederates
What: radical confederates terrorize newly freed slaves.
Where: The united states
Why: radical confederates did not consider the newly freed slaves as equals and wanted to keep them from voting. -
Imperialism in south america
Who: The united states and south America
What: the united states Intervened in south American countries and put dictators in that favored American business
Where: south America
Why: the us wanted US businesses to thrive in south American countries for more money
