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Missouri Compromise
The Compromise prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri. -
Panic of 1837
The panic of 1837 was a finacial crisis in the US that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s. Unemplyment went up while prices, profits, and wages went down. -
Trail of Tears
The forced removal of Native Americans from their homelands by Americans who want their land. -
The Comproimse of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed in the United States. This compromise defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North. -
Dred Scott v. Sandford Supreme
The War begins between the Union and Confederate nations. -
Lincoln is elected president
Lincoin was elected to be president in 1860. He was the sixteenth president of the United States and the first repulician to win the presidency. -
The Civil War Begins
The War begins between the Union and Confederate nations. -
Homested Act
he Homestead Act was a law signed by Lincoln. This law encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. -
Surrender at Appomattox
Union Beat the South and the South surrended. -
The Civil War Ends
Reconstruction begins and the Unions states begin to rejoin the Union.
