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Mexican American War
The Manifest Destiny started the first major conflict. It was believed that American had the right to make the U.S. boarders bigger in which angered Mexicans, Native Americans and even some U.S. Citizens. 1st major conflict started because of th the idea of manifest destiny.it was beleived that america had the right to make the country borders bigger.this caused suffering to mexicans, native americans, and u.s. citizens. -
Wilmot Proviso
David Wilmot was the first person to introduce the provisio which was a bill for the final negotiations to resolve the Mexican-American War. -
Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routs and pathways to safe houses for slaves to go through on their way to the free states during the time of slavery. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a group of 5 bills that passed which created a 4 year confrontation between the free Northern states and the Southern Slave states. Compromise drafted by Henry Clay. -
Fugitive Slave Act
This was one of the most controversial bills in the Compromise of 1850 and it made the nations fear of the slavery power conspiracy even higher. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Book Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel by the American author Harriet Beecher which was published in 1852 and was said to have helped lay the groundwork on the way to starting the Civil War. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was a chain of violent political confrontations including anti-slave states which took place in Kansas territory and towns near Missouri which in turn became a law May 21st, 1854. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was an act in which the new territories of both states allowed the settlers to decide whether or not they wanted to allow slavery in these territories or not. -
Ostend Manifesto
The United States rationed that we wanted to purchase Cuba and Spain and that the U.S. should declare war if they refuse to sell it to us. -
Dred Scott
The Dred Scott Decision was a Ruling by the Supreme Court saying that any African American brought to the U.S. would become a slave and that no slave was protected by their constitutional rights and would never be allowed to become a U.S. Citizen. -
Canning of Charles Sumner
Charles Sumner was an American politician from Massachusetts and was also a senator. He was one of the leaders for the Anti-Slavery abolishment forces in Massachusetts, and also one of the radical republicans during the American Civil War. -
John Brown's Raid
John Brown was an abolitionist who was in need of help and asked Harriet Tubman and Fredrick Douglass for help, but Harriet was too ill to help and Douglass thought the plan would fail if he did not help him.
