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Americans weren't allowed to settle west of the Appalachians
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Established American freedom
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A rebellion protesting a tax on whiskey.
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Spain sold Florida to the U.S.
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An agreement where Missouri joined America as a slave state and Maine joined as a free state keeping the balance equal. Slavery was also banned above a certain latitude (Except Missouri)
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Indian Removal Act, many treaties
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Granted Natives unsetted land far west in exchange for land within state boundaries
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This society was founded with the goal to end slavery by spreading the aboloitionist message. They mailed out pamphlets and had meetings.
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A mob of slavery supporters burnt abolitionists literature in Charleston. A lot of the material burnt was from the American Anti-Slavery Society.
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A rule that forced House of Representatives to ignore all anti-slavery petitions. Abolitionists sill wrote letters/petitions to end slavery and eventtually the rule was overturned becausee of strong opposition to slavery in the North
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A mob completely burnt a building in Pennsylvania. This building was commonly used for abolitionist meetings before it was burnt.
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Won Mexican-American War
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Texas joining America as the 28th state
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War started my America which rsulted in America gaining a lot of Mexican territory
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Established border between America and British North America
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Mexico sold about half of its territory to the U.S. for $15 million
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Made U.S. marshalss and deputies help slave owners to recover their escaped slaves. Southerners were unhappy that the North was helping escaped slaves and abolitionists though that states should be allowed to ignore the law.
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California became a free state, the slave trade was banned, and the new territories got to vote on whether they would have slavery when they became states
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A book published in respose to the fugitive slave act. It was the highest selling book of the 19th century. It explained how bad slavery was.
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U.S. bought whatt is now Arizona and New MExico from Mexico
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Act that got rid of the Missouri Compromise line. It allowed Nebraska and Kansas to become slave states based on the popular vote. Abolitionists were unhappy about this.
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Many people moved into Kansas to influence the vote on whether slavery would exist in Kansas. Because of disagreements on whether there should be slavery, there was lots of violence.
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A supreme court case where a slave sued for freedom because his master had taken him into free territory. Court ruled against Scott and said that no slave or their decendant could be a citizen, and that congress has no power to outlaw slavery, so any state could become a slave state if they wanted.
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A group of men raided a town in Virginia, trying to give slaves weapons and free them. They help many important people hostage, but were eventually caught and hanged.
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Many Southereners were extremely unhappy that Lincoln got eected because they though that he would try to end slavery.
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Many Southern states were afriad that slavery would end so they left the U.S.
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Southerners believed that they had their own country and started taking over federal buildings. But Lincoln though that no state is allowed to legally leave the U.S. Southern troops attacked Fort Sumter to take control of it and Lincoln made federal troops defend the fort. This was the start of the civil war.