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Missouri compromise
Maine was admitted as a free state and Missouri was a slave state. And Louisiana was split in half and south of the line the states slavery was legal and north of the line slavery was banned. At that time the President was James Monroe. -
Santa Fe Trail
It was one of the most busiest trails and it stretched 780 miles. Many settlers and traders brought their wagons on this trail. -
San Felipe de Austin
It was the main settlement of the colony and it was in favor of Stephen F. Austin. Austin had issue 297 land grants to the group that later became known as texas old three hundred -
Mexico abolishes slavery
Many Americans who moved to Texas brought their slaves with them and at that time Mexico had abolished slavery. And the Mexicans wanted the Texans to free their slaves. -
Abolition
the movement to get rid of slavery, which was the most important of a series of reform movements in America -
Nat turner rebellion
Nat turner was a slave who lead a small rebellion with about 50 followers and attacked 4 plantations and killed 60 white people. -
the liberator
William Lloyd Garrison wrote the liberator and it was about delivering an uncompromising demand: immediate emancipation. -
Stephen F. Austin goes to jail
while Stephen was on his way home Santa Anna imprisoned him for inciting the revolution. -
Texas Revolution
tensions between Mexico and Texas grow when mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of gonzales, sparking the Texan war for independence -
Oregon Trails
It started from Missouri to Oregon, and was founded by two missionaries named Marcus and Narcissa Whitman. What they did was they set it on fire so that it was easier to travel to the west. -
Manifest Destiny
The United States established to expand to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican and Native American territory -
Texas enters the United States
people from the south wanted Texas in order to extend slavery and the people from the north feared that the extension of more slave states would tip the uneasy balance in the senate in favor of the slave states -
Mexican American war
Texas gained its independence from Mexico in 1836. At first the united states didn't want to incorporate Texas in the union because northern political interests were against the addition of a new slave state. The Mexican government was also encouraging border raids and warning that any attempt at annexation would lead to war. -
the north star
Frederick Douglass wrote the North star and it was an anti slavery newspaper. -
treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The United States and Mexico signed the treaty. Mexico agreed to the Rio grande as the border between Texas and mexico and ceded the new mexico and California territory to the united states -
underground railroad
Harriet Tubman was the founder of the Underground Railroad, and its main purpose was to help slaves hide in tunnels and false cupboards and the people who ran it gave them food and clothing. -
Harriet Tubman
She was the founder of the underground railroad and she was one of the most famous leaders for the railroad. She made 19 trips back to the south and historians say that she helped 300 slaves. -
compromise of 1850
Henry clays compromise contained provisions to appease northerners as well as the southerners -
Uncle Toms cabin
The author of the book was Harriet Beecher Stowe. And the book was about how much she hated slavery and that slavery was not just a political contest but a great moral struggle. -
Kansas-Nebraska act
Stephen A. Douglas introduced s bill to congress which would divide the area into two territories. Nebraska in the north and Kansas in the south. -
Dred Scott vs. Stanford
Dred Scott was a slave whose owner took him from the slave state of Missouri to a free territory in Illinois and Wisconsin and back to Missouri. He sued the court for his freedom because he lived in the free states which made him a free man. In the end the court ruled against him -
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas debates
Lincoln challenged douglas to a war of debates. Douglas fought over popular sovereignty and Lincoln fought a "house divided could not stand" -
johns brown's raid/ harpers ferry
John Brown was an abolitionist studying the slave uprisings. He led a group of 21 men, black and white, into Harper's Ferry, Virginia. His main goal was to seize the federal arsenal there and start a general slave uprising. -
Abraham Lincoln becomes President
Lincoln appeared to be moderate in his views and he plead to halt the further spread of slavery. Lincoln convinced Southerners who had viewed the struggle over slavery party as a conflict between the states. -
formation of the confederacy
Delegates of the secessionist states met in Montgomery, Alabama where they formed the confederate states of America -
Attack in fort sumter
It was an Island in charleston harbor. Lincoln did not want to abandon the fort or reinforce it. So he decided to send in "food for hungry men". -
battle at Antietam
THe clash proved to be the bloodiest single day battle in American History, with casualties totaling more than 26,000. The next day instead of pursuing the battered Confederate army into virginia and possibly ending the war. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln issued his emancipation proclamation on January 1st, 1863. -
Battle at Vicksburg
Grant ordered two frontal attacks on Vicksburg, neither of which succeeded. So, in the last week of May 1863, Grant settled in for a siege. And after the food supplies ran so low the confederate command of Vicksburg asked grant for terms of surrender. -
Battle of Gettysburg
July 1, 1863, the Confederacy and the Union met around the sleepy town and a three-day battle ensued. The Union won -
Gettysburg Address
It was Lincolns address to remake America -
Shermans March
Sherman and his army started to march from the southeast through the Georgia sea, creating a path of destruction. He burned almost every house, livestock and railroads. He wanted to make the southerners so sick of war. Sherman and his army followed by 25,000 former slaves the north turned to help grant wipe out lee. -
surrender at Appomattox court house
in a town in Virginia called Appomattox, lee and grant met at a private house to arrange a confederate surrender. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln and his wife went to Fords Theater in Washington to see a British comedy. During the third act a man came up behind Abe and shot him in the back of his head. The man who killed Lincoln was named John Wilkes Booth -
Thirteenth Amendment
The U.S Constitution now stated "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States. -
Fugitive slave act
Slave were not allowed to have a trail by jury and if anyone was found helping a slave they would get fined $1,000 -
Battle of bull run
It was only 25 Washington D.C. and it was a seesaw affair. In the morning the union army gained the upper hand, but the Confederates held firm, inspired by general Thomas J Jackson. -
Conscription
The war led to social upheaval and political unrest in both the North and the South. As the fighting intensified, heavy casualties and widespread desertions led each side to impose -
Income tax
a tax that takes a specified percentage of an individual’s income
