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Missouri Compromise
The United States had 22 states, 11 free states in the North, and 11 slave states in the South, but its balance was called into question when Missouri requested admission into the Nation as a slave state. This occasioned a great controversy, so Congress offered a solution. In exchange for Missouri being admitted as a slave state, Maine would also be admitted, but as a free state. -
Monroe Doctrine
A Doctrine issued in James Monroe presidency stating that they would not permit more European colonization or interference in the Americas. -
Battle of the Alamo
A battle between the Mexican army and Texans that lasted 13 days, from February 23rd to March 6th. Texas was a disputed territory over the U.S. and mexico, and texans wanted independence. -
Trail of Tears
The forced Native American Cherokees' relocations from their territory to what now is Oklahoma thanks to the Indian Removal Act of 1830. -
Panic of 1837
A financial crisis in the United States where wages, profits and prices went down, as the unemployment rate went up. -
Sutter's Fort
A sawmill built by a carpenter named James Marshall, who was hired by John Sutter, with agricultural purposes. Through the construction, gold was found, setting off the California Gold Rush. -
Pre-emption Act
The pre-emption acts protected all the settlers who went west and just picked a spot to build their farms -which they did not have any legal claim to- by guaranteeing them the right to claim land before it was surveyed by the U.S government. -
Mexican-American War
Texas had gained its independence from Mexico and tried to incorporate into the union 2 times, to which the union refused because northern political states were against a new slave state being added to the union. The war ended on February 2, 1848, when the treaty of Hidalgo was signed. -
Bear Flag Revolt
A small group of settlers in California that came from America rebelled against the Mexican government. They claimed California as an independent republic. Soon after the Bear Flag was raised, the U.S military began occupying California, which would, later on, join the union in 1850. -
Compromise of 1850
After the acquisition of California as a free state, a series of laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery, including the fugitive slave act and the abolition of slave trade in D.C. -
Fugitive Slave Act
Stated that if you were a slave and managed to escape to escape to the North, your master could come and get you, and if you were a free negro, they could still get you. Any African American could be condemned with a simple accusation. It also punished all those who helped runaway slaves. -
Gadsden Purchase
Couple years after the Mexican-American War, U.S had planned to build a railroad linking Southern states and the Pacific coast, but since the topographic conditions were too difficult to build the railroad through American part of Arizona and New Mexico, the U.S government purchased a part of Northern Mexico land. The purchase was the last territorial acquisition of the country. -
Bleeding Kansas
A term used to describe a series of protests in Kansas that turned violent regarding slavery. -
Dred Scott Decision
A case where Dred Scott unsuccessfully sued his owner for his
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South Carolina secedes
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Mississippi secedes
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Florida secedes
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Alabama secedes
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Georgia seceded
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Louisiana seceded
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Texas seceded
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Civil War
The North and the South were different in many things, including their economy and their lifestyle, for example, the north favored city life and was more industrial, while the south hung into plantation life and was more agricultural. But the big issue was slavery, those were the causes that led up to the Civil War. -
Virginia secedes
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Arkansas secedes
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North Carolina secedes
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Tennessee secedes
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Emancipation Proclamation
The proclamation declared that "all persons held as slaves", within the rebellious states "are, and hanceforward, shall be free". -
Gettysburg battle
A 3-day battle that ended on July 3, 1863, and won by General Robert E. Lee's army. -
Gettysburg Address
On November 19th, President Lincoln traveled to Gettysburg to dedicate the new Unions Cemetery. He gave a brief speech of only 269 words, but so powerful that would later influence the whole nation. -
13th amendment
This amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as for punishment for a crime. -
14th amendment
One of the reconstruction amendments, and states that every person born and naturalized in the United States, and any other place that's under its jurisdiction, are citizens of the United States. -
15th amendment
This amendment gives all citizens the right to vote, no matter what their race, color or previous condition of servitude is, and prohibits its denial.
