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Alien & Sedition Acts
Four bills that were passed by the Federalists and 5th U.S. congress after the French Revolution and during an undeclared naval war with France. -
Manifest Destiny Intro
A widely held belief in the US that American settlers were supposed to expand throughout the continent. -
Lousiana Purchase
A land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million dollars. -
War of 1812
A 32-month military conflict between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, its North American colonies and its Indian allies. -
Erie Canal
A canal in New York that originally ran about 363 miles (584 km) from Albany, New York, on the Hudson River to Buffalo, New York, at Lake Erie, at the time completing a navigable water route from New York City and the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes. -
Missouri Compromise
An act that regulated Savery in the Western territory -
Tariff of Abomination
Tariff passed that was designed to protect the industry in the North -
Nullification Crisis
Arose in the early 1830s when the leaders of SC stated that SC did not have to follow federal law and were allowed to nullify it. -
Mexican-American War
An armed conflict between the US and the Centralist Republic of Mexico because the annexation of Texas which was considered Mexican territory -
Compromise of 1850
5 laws that were passed that dealth with the issue of Slavery -
Brooks-Sumner Affair
When Charles Sumner beat George Brooks to unconsciusness with a cane while seated at a desk in the Senate Chamber -
Creation of Republican Party
A small group of abolitionists got together to propose the Kansas-Nebraska Act -
Bleeding Kansas
A series of violent confrontations involving anti-slavery free states taht took palce in Kansas territory -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise allowing slavery in the territory north of the 36^0 30^0 latitude -
Election of Abraham Lincon
The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860 and served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War. The United States had been divided during the 1850s on questions surrounding the expansion of slavery and the rights of slave owners. In 1860, these issues broke the Democratic Party into Northern and Southern factions, and a new Constitutional Union Party appeared. In the face of a divided opposition, the Republican Party, dominant in the North, secured a majority -
South Carolina Seceded
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Manifest Destiny Accomplished
it was the driving force for US expansion across the North American continent in the 19th century. It was the belief held by many Americans that it was the destiny of the US to expand across the continent. This, in turn, had a serious impact on Native Americans As US expansion increased, Native Americans lost more and more of their land until they had almost none of it left.