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Missouri Compromise
- labeled Missouri as a free state
- Louisiana as a slave state
- it was the beginning of the end of slavery
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Monroe Doctrine
-U.S. policy in the Western Hemisphere
-warned European nations that United States would not tolerate colonization
-led to the end of colonization -
Trail of Tears
-removed Indians from Southeastern homelands
-part of the Indian removal policy
-one of the reasons Andrew Jackson is considered an unsuccessful president -
Battle of Alamo
-big event in the Texas Revolution
-assault on Alamo Mission near San Antonio
-helped Texas win independence from Mexico -
Panic of 1837
-financial crisis
-created a major recession
-lost great amounts of money -
Sutters Fort
-agricultural and trade colony
-built by John Sutter -
Pre-Emption Act
-allowed squatters to preempt land
-pioneers settled on public land -
Bear Flag Revolt
- group of Americans
- revolted against the Mexican government
- California declared as a independent republic
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United States and Mexican War
-followed the wake of Texas annexation
-United States claimed land -
fugitive slave law
-part of the Compromise of 1850
- settled between the South and the North -
Compromise of 1850
-five separate bills
-solve a four year dispute between slave and free states
-regards land required during American and Mexican War -
Gadsden Purchase
-region of land that was purchased through a treaty
-present-day is southern Arizona and southwestern Mexico -
Dred Scott Decision
-decision made by the Supreme Court
-Scott was deprived of his right to freedom, and would never be counted as a real citizen -
Harpers Ferry
-town in Virginia
-initiate a slave revolt
-led by abolitionist -
South Carolina secession
the first state that led all of the others during the secession -
Tennessee secession
2nd state to seceed. -
Bleeding Kansas
-series of violet confrontations
-involving anti-slavery -
Civil War (beginning)
-fought over slavery and state rights -
Mississippi secession
the 4th secession -
Florida secession
6th secession -
Alabama secession
all southern states seceeded -
Georgia secession
10th state to leave America -
Louisiana secession
followed tennessee -
Texas secession
did not support slave freedom so the suceeded -
Virginia secession
7th secession -
Arkansas secession
did not support slaves as people therefore they secceded -
North Carolina secession
the last secession due to slavery -
Gettysburg Address
-speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln
-helped end the war
-made soldiers realize that death isn't necessary to solve one's problems -
Emancipation Proclamation
-document that was issued by Abraham Lincoln
-freed all slaves and gave them independence -
Civil War (end)
-ended with the Union's victory
-the Emancipation Proclamation came from the war -
13th amendment
-slavery can not be used as a punishment -
14th amendment
-no state can enforce laws that go against the citizens rights -
15th amendment
-citizens have the right to vote and can not have that right taken away from them