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Northwest Ordinance
the Northwest Ordinance created a new method for taking new states to the union. The Northwest Ordinance also Listed a bill of rights Guaranteed in the territory. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was a Purchase made by the United States from France in 1803. The US paid 15 Million dollars for this land. The land was west from the Mississippi River. -
Missouri Compromise
This made Missouri a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36th parallel. -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was a policy toward the western hemisphere.it basically warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs. -
Nullification Crisis
The Nullification Crisis was a conflict between South Carolina and the federal government. South Carolina adopted the Ordinance of Nullification. -
Texsas Annexation
The Texas Annexation was when texas came into the united states. James K Polk got the joint resolution passed. -
Oregon Treaty
The Oregon Treaty made the border between the U.S. and British North America at the 49th parallel. It also ended the joint Occupation. -
Mexican Cession (Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo)
This brought an official end to the Mexican-American war. This was signed at Guadalupe Hidalgo. -
Compromise of 1850
the Compromise of 1850 was actually five separate bills passed by us congress That got rid of a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War. -
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Bleeding (Bloody) Kansas
This emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.It was also called the border war -
Kansas - Nebraska Act
the Kansas Nebraska Act was a bill that mandated popular sovereignty. Allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state's borders. -
Battle of Fort sumter
This is the first battle in the Civil War. This battle took place next to charleston county. The Confederates won this battle. -
Battle of Bull Run
This battle took place next to Manasses. the victory went to the south Many Northerners realized war isn't as easy as they thought. This battle gave the south courage. -
Battle of Antietam
The battle ended the Confederate invasion of Maryland and resulted in a Union victory. It also led to President Abraham Lincoln issuing the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. It basically declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
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Presidential Reconstruction (1863-1867)
Following Lincoln's assassination in April 1865, Andrew Johnson became president and inaugurated the period of Presidential Reconstruction. -
Battle of Vicksburg
was a Union victory during the American Civil War that divided the confederacy and cemented the reputation of Union General Ulysses S. -
Battle of Gettysburg
the confederate won this battle. General Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania. -
Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address is a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War. -
13th amendment passed
abolition of slavery. -
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Sherman’s March to the Sea
William T. Sherman led soldiers from Atlanta to Savannah Georgia. He did this in hopes to frighten Georgia's civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause. -
14th amendment passed
extended liberties and rights granted by the Bill of Rights to former slaves. -
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Congressional Reconstruction (1867-1877)
the period after the Civil War when the federal government attempted to enforce equal suffrage on the ex-Confederate states. -
15th amendment passed
granted African American men the right to vote. -
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
the courts made a separate but equal decision. It became the legal basis for racial segregation in the United States for the next fifty years.