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Northwest ordinance
It provided a way for the us to admitt new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory. -
louisiana purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was the purchase of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France in 1803.The us paid fifteen million dollars. -
Missouri Compromise
It made that Maine would be joined into the United States as a free state, while Missouri as a slave state, maintaining the balance of power between North and South in the US Senate -
Monroe Doctrine
the doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs. -
Nullification Crisis
It was between South Carolina and the us government over the former's attempt to declare null and void within the state the federal Tariffs -
Texas Annexation
The Texas annexation was the annexation of the Republic of Texas into the USA, which was joined to the Union as the 28th state on December 29, 1845. -
Oregon Treaty
The Oregon Treaty is a treaty between Great Britain and the United States that was signed on June 15, 1846 -
Mexican Cession (Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo)
It ended the war between the United States and Mexico and its terms, Mexico got 55 percent of its territory, including parts of present-day Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah, to the United States. -
Compromise of 1850
It is made up of five laws passed that dealt with the issue of slavery and territorial expansion. California asked permission to enter the Union as a free state, probably upsetting the balance between the free and slave states in the U.S. Senate. -
Kansas - Nebraska Act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. -
Bleeding (Bloody) Kansas
This was a series of violent civil debates in Kansas Territory, they were a political debate over if it was legal of slavery in the state of Kansas. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
The battle of fort sumter was the starting battle of the war. -
Battle of Bull Run
it was known as the First Battle of Manassas, was the first major battle of the Civil War and was a Confederate victory. -
Battle of Antietam
it was known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, it happened in the Southern United States. The union had a strategic victory. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The proclamation declared that slaves became free -
Battle of Vicksburg
The battle of Vicksburg was the final major military action in the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The battle had the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point. -
Gettysburg Address
Lincoln made a speech after the Civil War and said it was not just a fight to preserve the Union, but to bring equality to all of its citizens made in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. -
Sherman’s March to the Sea
Sherman's March to the Sea was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia -
Presidential Reconstruction
all land that had been taken by the Union Army and distributed to the freed slaves by the army or the Freedmen's Bureau to its prewar owners. -
13th amendment passed
It abolished slavery throughout the united states -
14th amendment passed
This amendment extends liberties and rights granted by the Bill of Rights to former slaves. -
Congressional Reconstruction
Federal government enacted and attempted to enforce equal suffrage on the ex Confederate states. -
15th amendment passed
This amendment granted African American men the right to vote. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
The us Supreme Court decided that the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.