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George Washington was elected as president of the United States
-checks and balances are used to keep any branch of government from becomming too powerful
-George Washington was commander of American forces during the Revolutionary War
-he helped frame the constitution -
The Constitution was Written
-anti-federalists wrote it
-federalists wanted a more centralized government
-anti-federalists believed in power within the states -
Alabama Admitted as a Slave State
-brought ffree and slave states to equal numbers
-union and confederate states equal
-John Crowell was representative of Alabama -
The Missouri Compromise
-diffused sectional and political rivilries
-At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free
-In the years leading up to the Missouri Compromise of 1820, tensions began to rise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions -
Abolitionist Movement
-ended slavery
-lead by William Lloyd Garrison
-Western Europe and the Americas -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
-opened new lands for settlement
-allowed white male settlers to determine if they'll allow slavery in which territory
-malke feasible a midwestern railroad -
Dred Scott v. Sandford
-landmark decision where no African Americans were U.S. citizens
-included enslaved and free
-Dred Scott was a politician who was a slave -
Lincoln Becomes President
-Introduced the Emancipation Proclamation
-Nation gained control
-South had to choose to either give up slavery or leave the union -
Civil War
-diseases were one of the top killers
-more than 620,000 died
-determined the kind of nation it would be -
The Homestead Act
-a program designed to grant public land to small farmers at low cost
-US tripled in size
-influenced Westward Expansion
