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Mexican-American War
April 1846- fecuary 1848
This was a war between America and Mexico
The Americans won and it resulted in America gaining more than 500,000 square miles of Mexican territory
They got, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, California, Texas, and western colorado -
Compromise of 1850
Henry clay
Compromise between north and south about slavery
1, allowed California to enter the union as a free state
2, divided to rest of the Mexican cession into states, NM and Utah
3, ended the slave trade in Washington DC
4, Strict fugitive slave law -
Underground Railroad
1810-50
Helped to guide 100,000 enslaved people to freedom
Cundudctors guided runaway slaves from place to place
It wasn't an actual train, just a group of people -
Fugitive slave law
Passed on September 18, 1850
The act required slaves to be returned to owners, even if in free states -
Pro and anti- slave literature
Wrote by William Lloyd Garrison and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Garrison wrote poetry
Harriet wrote (1852) the novel, uncle toms cabin -
KS-NE act
Repealed Missouri compromise
Senator Stephen Douglass split land west of Missouri into Kansas and Nebraska
Anti-slavery supporters were mad because, under the Missouri compromise in 1820, slavery would have been outlawed in both territories -
Bleeding Kansas
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery people were fighting about the new territories and whether slavery should be allowed there
(1854) -
Republican party est
-founded march 20, 1854 -
Sumner- Brooks indecent
May 22, 1856
Brooks found Sumner attaching his portal franks to copies of his “crimes against Kansas” speech\
He slammed his metal cane on sumners head
Sumners was carried away bleeding
Brooks wasn't detained
He resigned and was reelected, then state there for 18 years -
panic of 1857
Financial panic
Caused by the declining international economy and over-expansion
Investors were losing in the stock market and railroads weren't able to pay debts -
Lecompton constitution
2nd out of 4 proposed constitutions for Kansas
Pro-slavery
If it was approved it would allow Kansas to have slaves
Never went into effect
(1857) -
Dred Scott v Stanford
Landmark decision
Established that enslaved persons had no rights in federal court -
lincoln-Douglas debates
Series of 7 debates between Abraham lincoln and the republican party.
For one of 2 Illinois US senate seats.
(1858) -
john brown raid
Raids on harpers ferry
John was an abolitionist
(1859)
Initiate a slave revolt in the south by taking the US arsenal at harpers ferry, Virginia -
election of 1860
-19th quadrennial presidential election
Lincoln won