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chartered a government for the Northwest Territory, provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory
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doubled the size of the United States, greatly strengthened the country materially and strategically, provided a powerful impetus to westward expansion, and confirmed the doctrine of implied powers of the federal Constitution
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Congress passed a law admitting Missouri to the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state and banned slavery from remaining Lousiana purchase lands.
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The doctrine was from President Monroe regarding foreign policy and that the old world and new world had different systems. It had 4 points
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It was during the presidency of Andrew Jackson and where there was a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government
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the annexation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America, which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state on December 29, 1845. The Republic of Texas declared independence from the Republic of Mexico
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Treaty signed between Great Britain and the United States. The boundary separated Oregon and Canada
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lands surrendered, or ceded, to the United States by Mexico at the end of the Mexican War. The terms of this transfer were spelled out in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848.
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Five laws that dealt with slavery and territorial expansion. Also, slave trade in Washington DC was abolished.
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Also called border war, violent acts in Kansas from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slaves in Kansas.
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Allowed people in Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not to allow slavery within the borders.
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Bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, SC by the South Carolina militia which led to surrender by the US Army starting the American Civil War.
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The first major battle of the American Civil War and was a confederate victory.
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Occurred near Sharpsburg, Maryland and had confederates General Lee against union General McClellan and was the deadliest one-day battle in all of American history.
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President Lincoln announced that all slaves within rebellious states are free.
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In Mississippi and was a union victory. President Lincoln stated Vicksburg was significant to open the river to the Northern traffic along the whole river.
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Most important engagement of the American Civil War. The union won stopping Lee's invasion of the north.
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President Lincoln delivered a speech later known as Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the National Cemetary. Famous speech that all men are created equal.
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General Sherman led 60,000 troops on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah Georgia. This was to frighten Georgia's people into abandoning the Confederates
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President Andrew Johnson offered a pardon to southern whites except for confederate leaders and restored political rights and property except slaves.
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Abolished slavery in the United States.
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This extended liberties and rights from the Bill of Rights to former slaves.
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After the Civil War when the federal government tried to enforce equal suffrage on ex-confederate states
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Granted African American men the right to vote.
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Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under "separate but equal" doctrine. This is from an african american named Plessy who refused to sit on the train car for blacks.