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Northwest Ordinnce
- Declared slavery illegal in the northwest territory
- First effort by the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories
- Set the precedent for how many new states can enter the union
This is important because new states would enter the union on terms to the original thirteen colonies.
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The Louisiana Purchase
- Purchased By Thomas Jefferson
- From the Treaty Of France
- Lewis and Clark explored the land This is the first land acquisition following the territory acquired from the treaty of Paris.
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The Texas Annexation
- Texas could not be admitted as a new state because of border disputes
- Balance of power between slave states and free states
- Texas remained independent for almost a decade
Texas was Annexed by congress after Polk was elected.
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Missouri Compromise
- 1820
- Admitted Missouri As a slave state and Maine As Free State
- Drew the line for the expansion of slavey at 36'30" line
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Monroe Doctrine
- Issued By James Monroe
- Warned European countries to not Recolonize Latin America
- Enforcement of the document was dependent on The British navy
United States Military power was very limited.
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Nullification Crisis
- 1830
- John C. Calhoun From South Carolina
- States have the right to declare federal law The federal government passed a very high protective tariff, which angered the south.
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The Mexican Cession
- Contained territories that made up most of southwestern U.S
- Land acquired from the treaty that ended Mexican American War
- Completed Manifest Destiny This gave Americans control of land from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
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Kansas Nebraska Act
- Proposed By Stephen Douglas
- Overturned Missouri Compromise
- Competition Of Pro-Slavery And Anti-Slavery Forces Turned Conflict Overturned Missouri Compromise By Allowing Popular Sovereignty North Of 36'30".
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Battle Of Fort Sumter
- Charleston, South Carolina
- Confederate Victory
- Fought The Union
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Battle Of Bull Run
- July 1861 -Bull Run Creek Manassas Virginia
- General Irwin Mcdowell Confederacy victory.
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Battle Of Antietam
- September 1862
- Antietam Creek, Sharpsburg, Maryland
- General George McClellan Union The single bloodiest day of the war with 23,000 casualties.
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Gettysburg Adress
- November 1803
- Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Abraham Lincoln " Four score and seven years ago "
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Battle Of Vicksburg
- May 1863
- Vicksburg, Mississippi
- General Ulysses S. Grant Union Vicory Led By Ulysses S. Grant.
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Battle Of Gettysburg
- July 1863 -Gettysburg Pennsylvania
- General George G. Meade Union Win This War.
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Sherman's March To Sea
- Began November 15, 1864
- William Tecumseh Followed the total war strategy
- Led his forces on a march to the sea from the Tenessee Georgia Border His plan was to capture the port At Savannah, Georgia
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13th Amendment Passed
- During Reconstruction Ended Slavery
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Presidential Reconstruction
- Re-establishment of full participation of the southern states
- After the war ended
- Southern governments passed black codes to replace the slave codes Southern vigilante groups were violent towards freedmen
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Congressional Reconstruction
- Increased violence toward freedmen
- Resolve of public and congress toward freedmen
- KKK tormented black men Black men were not allowed to vote.
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14th Amendment Passed
- African Americans
- Birthright citizenship
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15th Amendment Passed
- Granted African American Men The Right To Vote
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Plessy V Ferguson
- 1896 Supreme Court Decision That Upheld Constitutionality Of Racial And Segregation Laws
- Separate but equal