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Missouri Compromise
-effort by Congress to diffuse rivalries triggered by request of Missouri for admission as a slave state
-devised by Henry Clay -
Monroe Doctrine
-principal of US policy that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US
-originated by James Monroe -
Battle of the Alamo
-Texas' war of independence from Mexico
-Mexican forces seiged the fort -
Trail of Tears
-Andrew Jackson Indian removal policy
-Cherokee nation forced to move and give up land -
Panic of 1837
-US financial crisis, profits, prices & wages went down
-pessimism, panic, decline in cotton, restrictive lending -
Sutter's Fort
-in Sacramento CA, 2 1/2 thick walls and 18 ft high
-crops, cattle, sawmill, gold -
Pre-Emption Act
-squatters be allowed to preempt lands
-offered before land was auctioned -
US - Mexican War
-US fought Mexico over Texas and California
-war was fought in the name of manifest destiny, belief that US should possess the entire continent -
Bear Flag Revolt
-small group of American settlers in CA rebelled against Mexican government
-Republic was short lived -
Fugitive Slave Law
-part of the Compromise of 1850
-if slaves were captured they would be returned to their masters -
Gadsden Purchase
-Arizona and southwest New Mexico purchased by the US
-treaty signed by James Gadsden -
Bleeding Kansas
-bloody border war involving anti and pro slavery
-slavery was to be decided by settlers -
Dred Scott Decision
-enslaved African American attempted to sue for his freedom
-court denied -
Harper's Ferry
-effort by white abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt.
-defeated by US Marines -
South Carolina seceded
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Mississippi seceded
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Florida seceded
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Alabama seceded
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Georgia seceded
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Louisiana seceded
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Texas seceded
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Civil War
-4/12/1861 to 5/9/1865
-American civil war between the Union and Confederate states
-central event in America's history -
Virginia seceded
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Arkansas seceded
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North Carolina seceded
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Tennessee seceded
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Emancipation Proclamation
-all slaves were freed
- delivered by Abraham Lincoln -
Gettysburg Address
-speech given by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War
-dedication of the Soldiers National Cemetery -
13th Amendment
-abolished slavery
-applies to actions of private citizens -
14th Amendment
-forbids states from denying life, liberty or property without due process -
15th Amendment
-prohibits the federal or state government from denying a citizen the right to vote -
Compromise of 1850
- 5 seperate bills passed by Congress which diffused 4yr political confrontation between free and slave states -to avoid war