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Missouri Compromise
Maine is a free state & Missouri is a slave state South of 3630' are slave states North of it are free states, except for Missouri -
Abolition
getting rid of slavery -
Santa Fe Trail
780miles from Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe in Mexico. -
San Felipe de Austin
Stephen Austin was granted permission from Mexico to set up a colony devoid of depravity in Texas -
The Liberator
newspaper against slavery written by William Lloyd Garrison. -
Mexico Abolishes Slavery
American texans didn't want to free their slaves -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
killed 50 whites, but the rebellion ended up failing. -
Stephen F. Austin goes to jail
He encouraged revolution in Texas -
Texas Revolution
Texas becomes independant in 1836 -
Oregon Trail
Independence to Oregon City
first traveled by two Methodist missionaries
proved wagons could trazvel on the Oregon trail -
Manifest Destiny
Americans thought their god wanted them to expand west to the Pacific Ocean. -
Texas enters the United States
President James K. Polk adopts Texas -
Mexican-American War
Mexico was angry at the U.S. about Texas & Polk wanted war -
The North Star
written by Fredrick Douglass against slavery -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The U.S. pays $15 mil for a ton of territory -
Harriet Tubman
escaped to Philadelphia & helped the underground railroad -
Compromise of 1850
attampted to appease the North & South on the issue of slavery -
Fugitive Slave Act
harsh treatment & no trial for alleged runaway slaves & helpers -
Underground Railroad
people helped runaway slaves escape -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
written by Harriet Beecher Stowe book against slavery -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
let them vote for if they want slavery or not -
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Dred Scott sppealed for his freedom & lost -
Abraham Lincoln & Stephen Douglas Debates
Douglass won -
John Brown's raid/Harper's Ferry
led 21 men to an arsenal for a slave uprising & failed He was put to death -
Abraham Lincoln becomes president
gets less that half the popular vote & no southern electoral votes -
Formation of the Confederacy
The South left the Union -
Attack on Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter gets no reinforcements, only provisions -
Battle of Bull Run
Confederates, led by Thomas(Stonewall) Jackson, won -
Battle at Antietam
Union victory, but Mccellan wasted a chance to end the war -
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln freed the slaves -
Conscrption
forced servitude in the army -
Income Tax
percentage of a person's pay -
Battle at Vicksburg
Grant, Union general, wins -
Battle at Gettysburg
The North defeats Robert Lee 23,000-28,000 -
Gettysburg address
Lincoln spoke in an inspiring way for a couple minutes -
Sherman's March
in total war Union general, Sherman, rampages through georgia -
Surrender at Appomattox Court House
Grant and Lee met in the court house to discuss Lee's surrender -
Thirteenth Amendment
outlawed slavery