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Missouri Compromise
Compromise said that Missouri could enter into the union and the 3630 line made everything south a slave state and everything north a free state. -
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Andrew Jackson
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Indian Removal Act
Forced removal of Natives to the east of the Mississippi. -
Texas Annexation
TX was admitted into the union as the 28th state. -
David Wilmot Proviso
Banned expansion of slavery into the Mexican territories, passed the House but not the Senate. -
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US-Mexican war
President James Polk sent troops to Mexico so that Mexico had to fight and took over Mexico City so Mexico had to sign the treaty. -
Seneca Falls Convention
First women's rights convention. -
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California Gold Rush
Gold discovered in California pushed people to the West. -
Fugitive Slave Act
Anyone can go and capture a fugitive slave if they escaped to the North, everyone needs to help, the slave cannot testify. -
Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay resolution. -
Uncle Toms Cabin
Book about abolition. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Act organized the territories in Kansas and Nebraska. -
Republican Party formed
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Gadsden purchase
Got more land so Gadsden could build the railroad. -
Dred Scott vs. Sandford
Dred Scott, a slave, was taken to the North and then back to the South and sued for his freedom, but the Supreme Court ruled that he was still blinded to slavery because of the laws of the South, where he lived then. -
IL Senate race
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Election
Lincoln beats Douglas.
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