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Abolition
movement to end slavery
It became the most important of a series of reform movements in America
It once started in 1780
US abolished slavery by 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1865. -
Missouri Compromise 1820-1821
The Missouri Compromise was a United States federal statute devised by Henry Clay. It regulated slavery in the country's western territories by prohibiting the practice in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north, except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri. The compromise was agreed to by both the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress and passed as a law in 1820, under the presidency of James Monroe. -
Harriet Tubman
She was an American abolitionist, humanitarian, and an armed scout and spy for the United States Army during the American Civil War. Tubman was also a famous conductor of Underground railroad fleeing. -
San Felipe de Austin
It is the main settlement of the colony, named in Stephen's honor. -
Mexico Abolishes slavery
Texas was gaining the labor from slavery for their life business -
The Liberator
It was an abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp in 1831. It published weekly issues for 35 years continuously. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
It was a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia. IT was led by Nat Turner. The slaves killed 55 to 65 people. -
Stephen F. Austin goes to jail
Under the belief that he was pushing for Texas independence, and was suspected of trying to incite insurrection, he was taken to Mexico City and imprisoned. -
Texas Revolution
the 1836 rebellion in which Texas gained its independence from Mexico -
Oregon Trail
stretched from Independence,
Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon. It was blazed in 1836 by
two Methodist missionaries named Marcus and Narcissa
Whitman. By driving their wagon as far as Fort Boise (near
present-day Boise, Idaho), they proved that wagons could
travel on the Oregon Trail.
During 1811-1840, it was used for fur trail. -
Manifest Destiny
belief in United States that its settlers are destined to expand across North America. It is not including the Native Americans and people from non-European country. This idea was first introduced by John O' Sullivan. -
Texas enters the United States
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Mexican-American War
Mexico and America wanted Texas region; it is because US wanted westward expansion and manifest destiny. -
Santa Fe Trail
It was a 19th century transportation route through central North America that connected Independence, Missouri with
Santa Fe in New Mexico. It was pioneered in 1821 by William Becknell. The trail was used as a route to go New Mexico during Mexican-American War in 1846. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
the 1848 treaty ending the U.S. war with Mexico, in which Mexico ceded California and New Mexico to the United States. -
The North Star
It was a nineteenth-century anti-slavery newspaper published from the Talman Building in Rochester, New York by abolitionist Frederick Douglass. It was anti-slavery newspaper. -
Compromise of 1850
It was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War. -
Underground Railroad
It was a system of routes along which runaway
slaves were helped to escape to Canada or to safe areas in the
free states. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which stressed that slavery was not just a political contest, but also a great moral struggle. It expresses slaves' lifetime. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen A. Douglas and President Franklin Pierce drafted this act, allowing people decide the existence of slavery, opening up many new farms and make a Midwestern Transcontinental Railroad. It affected on repeal of Missouri Compromise and later results Bleeding Kansas, the opposition between pro-slavery and anti-slavery. -
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Dred Scott was a slave who was brought by his master from slave state Missouri to free territory Illinois. He believed he should be freed because he lived a while at free state. The court decision was since Scott is a slave, he does not owned a right to sue in a United States court. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory. The idea of the fugitive slave law was derived from the Fugitive Slave Clause which is in the United States Constitution. It was thought that forcing states to deliver escaped slaves to slave owners violated states' rights due to state sovereignty. -
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas Debates
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas Debate was the 1858 race for the U.S. Senate between Democratic incumbent Stephen Douglas and Republican challenger Congressman Abraham Lincoln. Neither wanted slavery, but they had different opinions for how to keep it out. Douglas believed in popular sovereignty. Lincoln believed that slavery was immoral, but he did not expect individuals to give up slavery unless Congress abolished slavery with an amendment. -
John Brown's raid/Harpers Ferry
An abolitionist John Brown was studying the slave uprisings that had occurred in many places and believed that the time was ripe for similar uprisings in the United States. Brown led a band of 21 black and white men into Harpers Ferry, Virginia on Oct. 16, 1859. He aimed the federal arsenal there and start a general slave uprising, however, the rebellion was put down by the troops. -
Abraham Lincoln becomes president
As the campaign developed, three major candidates besides Lincoln vied for office. The Democratic Party finally split over slavery. Northern Democrats rallied behind Douglas and his doctrine of popular sovereignty. Southern Democrats, who supported the Dred Scott decision, lined up behind Vice-President John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky. Lincoln emerged as the winner with less than half the popular vote and with no electoral votes from the South. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
By Confederate soldiers' acts seizing forts in each secessionist, as the time of Lincoln's inauguration(March 4, 1861), only four Southern forts were left. Fort Sumter was the most important one. Lincoln decided to send foods for hungry men. It can be seen as the cause of civil war. -
Battle of Bull Run
The first bloodshed on the battlefield occurred near the little creek of Bull Run, just 25 miles from Washington, D.C. In the morning the Union army
gained the upper hand, but the Confederates held firm. In the afternoon Confederate reinforcements helped win the first Southern victory. Many Confederate soldiers, confident that the war was over, left the army and went home. Battle occurred twice, in July and August. -
Income Tax
Income tax is a tax that takes a specified percentage of an individual's income. As the Northern economy grew, Congress decided to help pay for the war by collecting the nation’s first income tax. -
Formation of the Confederacy
Confederacy is the Confederate States of
America, a confederation formed in 1861 by the Southern states
after their secession from the Union. South Carolina led the way, and soon Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed after South Carolina. Delegates from the secessionist states met in Montgomery, Alabama in February 1861 to formed Confederacy. -
Battle of Antietam
The battle was in creek near Antietam. This battle was 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, McClellan did nothing. As a result, Lincoln removed him from command. It was a sufficiently significant victory to give Lincoln the confidence to announce his Emancipation Proclamation. -
Emancipation Proclamation
It says the slaves in designated areas of south will be freed. The proclamation did not free any slaves immediately because it applied only to areas behind Confederate lines, outside Union control. Nevertheless, for many, the proclamation gave the war a moral purpose by turning the struggle into a fight to free the slaves. It also ensured that compromise was no longer possible. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point. -
Conscription
Conscription is the drafting of citizens for military service. In the North, conscription led to draft riots, the most violent of which took place in New York City. Sweeping changes occurred in the wartime economies of both sides as well as in the roles played by African Americans and women. -
Sherman's March
Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman led his march southeast through Georgia to the sea, creating a wide path of destruction.His forces destroyed military targets as well as industry, infrastructure, and civilian property and disrupted the Confederacy's economy and its transportation networks. His army burned almost every house
in its path and destroyed livestock and railroads. -
Thirteenth Amendment
Thirteenth Amendment is an amendment to the U.S.
Constitution, adopted in 1865, that has abolished slavery and
involuntary servitude. -
Surrender at Appomattox Court House
In a Virginia town called Appomattox Court House, Lee and
Grant met at a private home to arrange a Confederate surrender. Grant paroled Lee’s soldiers and sent them
home with their possessions and three days’ worth of rations. Officers were permitted to keep their side arms. Within a month all remaining Confederate resistance collapsed. After four long years, the Civil War was over. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Five days after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox,
Lincoln and his wife went to Ford’s Theater in Washington and was shot in the back of his head. The criminal was John Wilkes Booth, who a 26-year-old actor and Southern sympathizer who shot the Lincoln. Union cavalry trapped him in a Virginia tobacco shed and shot him dead Twelve days later.
