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War with Mexico
American intervention in Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States -
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Underground Railroad
used by African-American slaves to escape into free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. between 1850 and 1860 -
Compromise of 1850
package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during the -
Fugitive Slave Law
part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soldiers. -
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 in the proposed state of Kansas. -
Republican Party Established
anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the upper midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party. One such meeting, in Wisconsin on March 20, 1854, is generally remembered as the founding meeting of the Republican Party. -
Kansas/Nebraska Act
May 30, 1854 allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´. -
Sumner- Brooks Incident
The Caning of Charles Sumner, or the Brooks–Sumner Affair, occurred on May 22, 1856, in the United States Senate when Representative Preston Brooks used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist, in retaliation for a speech given by Sumner two days earlier -
Lecompton Constitution
contained clauses protecting slave holding and a bill of rights excluding free blacks, and it added to the frictions leading up to the U.S. Civil War. 1857 -
Panic of 1857
financial panic in the United States caused by the declining international economy and over-expansion of the domestic economy. -
Dred Scott v Sandford
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393, also known as the Dred Scott case or Dred Scott decision, was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on U.S. labor law and constitutional law. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
August-October 1858 The Lincoln–Douglas debates were 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
an effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in October 16 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
Election of 1860
United States presidential election of 1860, American presidential election held on Nov. 6, 1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell.
