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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was a United States federal statute devised by Henry Clay. It regulated slavery in the country's western territories by prohibiting the practice in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north, except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri. -
Harriet Tubman
She was one of the most famous conductors and she ran away to get away from the slavery. -
Santa Fe Trail
It stretched 780 miles from Independence, Missouri, to Santa Fe in the Mexican providence of New Mexico. -
San Felipe de Austin
The main settlement of the colony was named San Felipe de Austin, in Stephen's honor. -
Mexico abolishes slavery
Mexico encouraged Texas to free there slaves. -
The Liberator
It was wrote by William Lloyd Garrison, and it delivered an uncompromising demand: immediate emancipation. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Turner and more than 50 followers attacked 4 plantations and killed about 50 whites. -
Stephen F. Austin goes to jail
Austin was imprisioned by Santa Anna for inciting a revolution. -
Texas Revolution
The Texas Revolution began when colonists in the Mexican province of Texas rebelled against the increasingly centralist Mexican government. -
Oregon Trail
Stretched from independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon. -
Abolition
A movement that wanted to get rid of slavery. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny is a term for the attitude prevalent during the 19th century period of American expansion that the United States not only could, but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast. This attitude helped fuel western settlement, Native American removal and war with Mexico. -
Texas enters the United States
Most Texans hoped that the United States would annex their republic, but U.S. opinion divided along sectional lines. -
Mexican-American war
In 1844 James Polk, the newly elected president, made a proposition to the Mexican government to purchase the disputed lands. When that offer was rejected, troops from the United States were moved into the disputed territory of Coahuila. These troops were then attacked by Mexican troops, killing about a dozen American troops. These same Mexican troops later laid seige to an American fort along the Rio Grande. -
The North Star
The North Star was an Antislavery newspaper that was named after the star that guided runaway slaves from freedom. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Mexico agreed to the Rio Grande as the border between Texas and Mexico and ceded the New Mexico and California territories to the United States. -
Fugitive slave act
Harriet Tubman ran away from her plantation and made it to the Philadelphia. -
Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay worked to shape a compromise that both the North and the South could accept, which is called the Compromise of 1850. -
Underground Railroad
The escape routes that the runaway slaves used was called the underground railroad. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe published the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which talked about slavery was not just a political contest, but also a great moral struggle. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois. The initial purpose of the Kansas–Nebraska Act was to open up many thousands of new farms and make feasible a Midwestern Transcontinental Railroad. -
Dread Scott v. Sandford
It was a Supreme Court case that led to see if Blacks should be slaves or not. -
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas Debates
It was a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. -
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry was an effort by white abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. -
Abraham Lincoln becomes President
Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party. He was the first president from the Republican Party. -
Formation of the Confederacy
Delegates from the secessionist states met in Montgomery, Alabama, where they formed the Confederate States of America. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War. -
Battle of the Bull Run
It was fought on July 21, 1861 in Prince William County, Virginia, near the city of Manassas, not far from Washington, D.C. It was the first major battle of the American Civil War. -
Battle at Antietam
It was the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South, fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland Campaign, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
Battle at Vicksburg
The Siege of Vicksburg was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. -
Gettysburg address
It was a speech by Lincoln that helped the country to realize that it was not just a collection of individual states; it was one unified nation. -
Sherman's March
Sherman's March to the Sea is the name commonly given to the military Savannah Campaign in the American Civil War, conducted through Georgia from November 15 to December 21, 1864 by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army. -
Thirteenth Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. In Congress, it was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, and by the House on January 31, 1865. -
Surrender at Appomattox courthouse
Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant met at a private home to arrange a Confederate surrender. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln in the back of the head at Ford's Theatre. -
Income tax
To help pay for the war, congress collected the nation's first income tax it took a specified percentage of an individual's income. -
Conscription
It was a draft that forced people into the Military.
