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Missouri Compromise 1820-1821
Set the dividing line at 36'30 north latitude -
Santa Fe Trail
Stretched 780 miles from Independence, MO to Santa Fe, NM -
San Felipe de Austin
-The main settlement of the colony
- Founder: Moses Austin
- possible by land grants by Spain -
Mexico Abolishes Slavery
Insisted that Texans free their slaves -
Abolition
The movement to abolish slavery -
The Liberator
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
About: deliver an uncompromising demand which was immediate emancipation -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
One of the most prominent rebellions in which four plantations were attacked -
Stephen F. Austin Goes to Jail
When: 1833
Why: For inciting revolution -
Texas Revolution
a rebellion in which Texas gained its independence from Mexico -
Oregon Trail
Location: stretched from Independence, MO to Oregon City, OR
First travelers: Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
What it proved: that wagons can travel on the Oregon Trail -
Manifest Destiny
Expressed the belief that the United States was ordained to expand to the Pacific Ocean -
Texas Enters the United States
Most Texans hoped that the United States would annex their republic -
Mexican-American War
When:1846-1848
Reason: Mexico and the United States could not agree where the border should be. When said no, President Polk sent a diplomat to try and negotiate with the border, but Mexico would not negotiate so President Polk sent troops -
Lincoln/Douglas Debates
Why: over the issue on slavery
Views: Lincoln- believed that slavery was immoral
Douglas- believed in popular sovereignty
Douglas won the Senate seat but people started seeing Lincoln as a possible candidate for the presidency -
The North Star
Author: Frederick Douglass
Purpose: Named after the star that helped guide runaway slaves to freedom -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago
Mexico agreed to the Rio Grande as the border between Texas and Mexico -
Harriet Tubman
became a conductor on the Underground Railroad and made 19 trips to the South and said to have helped 300 slaves escape to freedom -
Compromise of 1850
a series of resolutions that provided CA to be admitted to the Union as a free state and allowed popular sovereignty for residents of NM and UT territories -
Fugitive Slave Act
under the law, anyone who was convicted of helping a fugitive was liable for a $1,000 fine and imprisonment for 6 months and fugitive slaves were not entitled to a trial by jury -
Underground Railroad
Started by: free African Americans and white abolitionists
Purpose: hide fugitive slaves and transport them to the free states -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
About: Stressed that slavery was not a political issue but also a moral struggle -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Proposed by: Stephen Douglas
Purpose: repeal the Missouri Compromise and divided the area into two territories (Kansas and Nebraska) -
Dread Scott vs. Sandford
Who: a slave whose owner took him from Missouri to Illinois and Wisconsin and back to Missouri
Why: was living in a free state and was a free man
Final verdict: ruled against Scott -
John Brown's Raid/Harper's Ferry
aim was to seize federal arsenal and start a general slave uprising -
Abraham Lincoln Becomes President
When: 1860
Why: wanted to stop the spread of slavery -
Attack on Ft. Sumter
the South started to take over forts -
Formation of the Confederacy
Established: 1861
States: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas
President: Jefferson Davis -
Battle of Bull Run
When: 1861
First southern victory, many soldiers thought that the war was over and went home -
Battle of Antietam
When: 1862
proved to be the deadliest battle in American history -
Emancipation Proclamation
applied to areas behind Confederate lines and gave the war a moral purpose -
Battle of Gettysburg
most decisive battle of the war -
Conscription
a draft that forced men to serve in the army -
Battle of Vicksburg
When: April-July 1863
Result: cut the Confederacy in half -
Income Tax
takes a specified percentage of an individual's income -
Gettysburg Address
helped the country realize that it was one unified nation -
Sherman's March
led by: William T. Sherman
if the Southern population's will to fight, the Confederacy would collapse -
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
Attendees: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee
Agreements: Paroled Lee's soldiers and sent them home with their possessions
Where: Appomattox Courthouse, VA -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Who did it: John Wilkes Booth
Where: Ford's Theatre -
Thirteenth Amendment
abolished slavery
