Unit 8 - Slavery and Pre-Civil War

By Rafael_Rodriguez

  • Britain abolishes slave trade

  • Missouri Compromise

    Compromise that tried to settle the dispute of slavery betweent the North and the South by not allowing slavery after a certain point above an imaginary line.

  • Nat Turner's Rebellion

    One of the first slave insurrections that looked to end slavery by the deaths of more than 60 white people.

  • Manifest Destiny Election

    Polk wins elections over the skilled-politican Henry Clay over the issue of the American expansion in the Oregon Country.

  • United States annexed Texas

  • Wilmot Proviso passed in the House of Representatives

  • Period: to

    Mexican-American War

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    Treaty ending the Mexican War and that attributed a large portion of land to the US. More than 90% of the people that lived there decided to become rightful US citizens.

  • Free Party Soil Organized

    Short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections, and in some state elections.