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Missouri Compromise
It was a compromise to preserve balance of power between the slave and free states.It added Maine and Missouri into the union. This compromised was later nullified by the
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
As a result of the Mexican-American war a treaty was written. The treaty stated that the U.S would pay Mexico $15 Million and Mexico would give the U.S Rio grande as a border line. -
Wilmont Proviso
One of the major events that lead to the American civil war, it would have banned slavery in the the territory gained from Mexicon in the Mexican war. written by Wilmont -
Fugitive Slave Act
It declared that all runaway slaves should be returned to their masters. This law was seen as unconstitutional. As a response to it Uncle Tom's Cabin was written. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
An anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe to show what hardships black slaves go through. The created stereotypes towards toward blacks. -
Dred Scot v. sanford
Scott was a slave who newest owner moved to New york where slavery is illegal so Scott had tried to get his freedom. Scott did not win the trial and stayed a slave. -
Bleeding Kansas
Series of violent political battles between the anti-slavery and pro-slavery parties that took place in Kansas, about if Kansas would be a free or slave state. -
Gadsen Purchase
The purchase included lands of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico.This purchase was to settle the borders of Mexico and the U.S. The treaty became involved in the sectional dispute over slavery. -
Know Nothing
A political movement to end the influence of immigrants. The catholic immigrants caused to many problems with protestants. -
Republican Party
Oe of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.he first republican was Abraham Lincoln, who was the cause of the south seceding. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and resulte on repealing the Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers to determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory. -
Election of 1856
Presidential election that, James Buchanan, won because he endorsed the popular sovereignty. He also believed that if the republicans won they would be the cause of the civil war. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
It was seven debates for Illinois senate between republican candidate, Abraham Lincoln and Democratic candidate, Stephen A. Douglass. The main issue discussed was slavery. -
John Brown's raid at Harper's ferry
was an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Many Nourtherner's admired Brown while Southerner's feared their slaves. -
Election of 1860
Presidential election between Republican, Abraham Lincoln and Democrate, John C. Breckinridge. Lincoln received more electoral votes and became the 16th president. 7 southern states seceded as a result of this. -
secession
Secession would be to withdraw from the union. In a speech by President James Buchana, that our country cannot have this and must one day alliminate it. -
Compromise of 1850
5 bills passed which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states and the free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War. This help delay the civil war.
