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Labor Unions
Labor Unions began forming in America in the 19th century. -
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Time Between the Missouri Compromise and Lincoln's election
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The Temperance Movement
The Temperance Movement started in the 1830s and 1840s. -
Public Education
Horace Mann of Massacuhsetts and Henry Barnard of Connecticut begin to make a widespread appeal for the value of public education. -
The United States Gains a Territory from Mexico
The issue of slavery came up again when the US gained a new territory from Mexico because the Government wasn't sure if they were going to make the territory a free state or a slave state. -
The Secena Falls Convention
The Secena Falls Convention was about giving the rights that men had to women as well. -
The Second Fugitive Slave Law
The Second Fugitive Slave Law says that anyone caught helping a runaway slave will be imprisoned for six months and pay a fine of $1,000, which was worth a lot more back then. -
The Compromise of 1850
The main laws of the compromise of 1850 were that California entered the Union as a free state and slave trade ended in Washington D.C., and the Fugitive Slave Law was passed. -
Dorothea Dix and President Peirce
In 1854, President Peirce vetoed Dorothea Dix's bill which would make the government build asylums for the mentally ill as well as the deaf and blind. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, split the Nebraska territory into two states, Kansas and Nebraska, and let Nebraska decide wether it would be a free state or a slave state by popular sovereignty. -
The Dred Scott Case
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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
In the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Lincoln didn't want slavery to expand into any new states, and Douglas believed that popular sovereignty should decide wether states became free or slave states. -
John Brown Starts a Liberation movement in Harper's Ferry, Virginia
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The South Secedes After Lincoln is Elected President