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Northwest Ordinance
The Northwest Ordinance Consisted mainly on the impact of slavery for tensions between the North and South. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was a compromise between the congress and states to balance out the states that had no slavery and the states that had slavery. It was a compromise made to make sure the system would not go off balance so that everything would be balanced and the states that had slavery and the states that didn't would be equal. During the Missouri Compromise, Missouri was going to make the system unbalanced so they made Maine a free state to make it balanced. -
Annexation of Texas
the United States Congress passed a "Joint Resolution for Annexing Texas to the United States" and Texas was subsequently admitted to the Union as the 28th state. The Texas border dispute with Mexico quickly led to the Mexican-American War during the presidency of James Polk. -
Mexican American War
The Mexican American war was a war between the Americans and Mexicans to take land. Mexico was defending themselves against the Americans while the Americans wanted more land and believed in Manifest Destiny so they wanted New Mexico but Mexico did not give it up which resulted in war. Mexico eventually lost and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidago
Following the defeat of the Mexican army and the fall of Mexico City, in September 1847, the Mexican government surrendered and peace negotiations began. The war officially ended with the February 2, 1848, signing in Mexico of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including the land that makes up all or parts of present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. -
California Gold Rush
The discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848 sparked the Gold Rush, arguably one of the most significant events to shape American history during the first half of the 19th century. The Gold rush resulted in many different things, The gold rush exploited the labors from Asia. The gold rush also exploited mexicans too. The gold rush made humans do bad things and the miners also left their wives to go look for gold during the gold rush. -
Compromise of 1850
California was a free state because of the states that is near it. However, Utah and New Mexico were allowed to decide if they want it to be free state or slave state. Different laws were passed and one of them was The Fugitive Slave Act. -
The Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave act was first created on 1793 to allow local governments to apprehend and extradite escaped slaves from within the borders of free states back to their point of origin, and to punish anyone helping the fugitives. Some Northern States tried to counter this thus created the underground railroad but in 1850 it was changed and the punishments for it were much harsher. in conclusion the Fugitive Slave act was to punish anyone helping free slaves -
Uncle Tom Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas is the term used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraska Act overturned the Missouri Compromise’s use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory and instead, using the principle of popular sovereignty, decreed that the residents would determine whether the area became a free state or a slave state. Pro-slavery and free-state settlers flooded into Kansas to try to influence the decision. -
Caning of Sumner
Charles Sumner was a leader from Republican after the Civil war. He blamed the South for pro slaves violence and got beaten up. The man who beaten him up was from the South. After he was beaten up badly he could not go back to the senate. However, he return to the senate after three years -
Lecompton Constitution
It was a constitution for people who were with slavery. This act said only males were allow to vote and blacks could not live in Kansas state. -
John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
This was attacked that took place in Harper Ferry, Virginia. People who were Anti-Slavery had guns and weapon and tried to save a rebellion. However, the attacked was not success. -
Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of people, African American as well as white, offering shelter and aid to escaped slaves from the South. It developed as a convergence of several different clandestine efforts. The exact dates of its existence are not known, but it operated from the late 18th century to the Civil War, at which point its efforts continued to undermine the Confederacy in a less-secretive fashion. one of the main conductor is Harriett Tubman. she help free many slaves.
