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Wilmot Proviso
Proposal to prohibit slavery in the US -
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Mexican-American War
This event was basically a fight over Texas between Mexico and America -
Mexican Cession
The region in the modern-day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo after the Mexican–American War. -
Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo
Ended the Mexican-American War ; added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including the land that makes up all or parts of present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. -
Compromise of 1850
The Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
Fugitive Slave Law
Passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders -
"Bleeding Kansas"
A series of violent civil confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery -
Dred Scott v. Sandford
A landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on U.S. labor law and constitutional law. -
Raid of Harpers Ferry
John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a series of formal political debates between the challenger, Abraham Lincoln, and the incumbent, Stephen A. Douglas, in a campaign for one of Illinois' two United States Senate seats. -
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
Bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War. -
Battle of Antietam
Caused Lee to surrender because of his loss of soldiers, which made Lincoln win -
Emancipation Proclamation
declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
Battle of Gettysburg
The most important engagement of the American Civil War. -
Battle of Vicksburg
Grant besieged the city and caused Pemberton to surrender -
Election of 1864
President Lincoln was re-elected -
Lincoln's Assasination
John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln at a play -
13th Amendment
abolished slavery -
Freedmen's Bureau
established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War. -
Civil Rights Act of 1866
the first United States federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. -
Military reconstruction
divided the south into 5 military districts -
14th Amendment
People born in the United States are automatically citizens -
15th Amendment
All citizens are equal -
Election of 1876
one of the most disputed elections in American history -
Compromise of 1877
ended the reconstruction era