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Mexican government refused offer of money in exchange for territory with the US. Fight broke out on this day.
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African Americans were not citizens and Missouri compromise was seen as unconstitutional
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Emigrated to Salt Lakke City
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80000 men set out to find a fortune in mining
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Ended Mexican american War. US gais California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and parts of Arizona, Kansas, and Wyoming.
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Henry Thoreaus resistance to civil govenment
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Admitted California to the Union as a free state, but did not forbid slaver in territories gained from Mexico
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PArt of the compromise of 1850. Required northerners to return runaway slaves to the south
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Held in Wisconsin, formed to stop expansion of slavery.
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West of Iowa and Missouri was opened to white setlement. KNown as the Missouri compromise slavery was prohibited north of the 36,3o line. In its place two territories were created, Kansas and Nebraska.
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Supportes of both slavery and anti slavery rushed into kansas to claim popular soverignty of their side.
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Sumner was attacked on the floor of the US Senate
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Made Lincoln a US presideant canident
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Lincoln wanted to unify the union but south saw him as an abolishionist and feared north would not support the southern econonmy.
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South CArolina was the first stte to secede. Followed by Missouri Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana
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Gained 160 acres west of public land and signed the pacific railway act to provide the first transcontinental rail road.
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Declared all slaves free in loyal ares.
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Confederacy suffered a defeat, bloodiest baddle of the civil war.
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Presidents dedication address
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Shot by John Booth at Fords theatre in washington DC
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abolished slavery
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Defined all people born in the US citizens
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Military watch placed on the south in attempt and they must adopt the constitution
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Gave blacks the right to vote
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Removed restrictions places on the south
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The contenuous election
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Allowed For hayes ellection with the withdrawls of federal troops from the south