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Missouri Compromise
Settlers came largely from the South, and it was expected that Missouri would be a slave state.A statehood bill brought before the House of Representatives, James Tallmadge of New York proposed an amendment that would forbid importation of slaves and would bring about the ultimate emancipation of all slaves born in Missouri. -
Appomattox courthouse
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Texas Annextion
The Southern people were anxious to have the State of Texas annexed to the United States, and such a desire was a prevailing feeling in that sovereign State. Trying to get Texas to jion the union. -
54-40 or fight
American History1. Native American Society on the Eve of British Colonization a. Diversity of Native American Groups b. The Anasazi c. The Algonkian Tribes d. The Iroquois Tribes2. Britain in the New World a. Early Ventures Fail b. Joint-Stock Companies c. Jamestown Settlement and the "Starving Time" d. The Growth of the Tobacco Trade e. War and Peace with Powhatan's People f. The House of Burgesses3. The New England Colonies a. The Mayflower and Plymouth Colony b. William Bradford a -
Wilmot Proviso
amendment to a bill put before the U.S. House of Representatives during the Mexican War; it provided an appropriation of $2 million to enable President Polk to negotiate a territorial settlement with Mexico -
Treaty of Gaudalupe Hidacao
peace treaty between the United States and Mexico that ended the Mexican War. Negotiations were carried on for the United States by Nicholas P. Trist. The treaty was signed on Feb. 2, 1848, in the village of Guadalupe Hidalgo, just outside Mexico City. -
Compermise of 1850
The annexation of Texas to the United States and the gain of new territory by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo at the close of the Mexican War (1848) aggravated the hostility between North and South concerning the question of the extension of slavery into the territories. The antislavery forces favored the proposal made in the Wilmot Proviso to exclude slavery from all the lands acquired from Mexico. -
Uncle Toms Cabin
Gave white people a look in the slaves lifes and a way to end it for good. -
Gadsden Purchase
strip of land purchased (1853) by the United States from Mexico. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) had described the U.S.-Mexico boundary vaguely, and President Pierce wanted to insure U.S. possession of the Mesilla Valley near the Rio Grande—the most practicable route for a southern railroad to the Pacific. James Gadsden negotiated the purchase, and the U.S. Senate ratified (1854) it by a narrow margin. -
Republican Party Founded
an anti-slavery meeting at the Congregational Church in Ripon, the Wisconsin town where he practiced law. The group voiced outrage at the Kansas-Nebraska Act, soon to clear Congress, which provided that settlers could decide for themselves whether to allow slavery in the new territories. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
irrevocably bound to the bitter sectional controversy over the extension of slavery into the territories and was further complicated by conflict over the location of the projected transcontinental railroad. Under no circumstances did proslavery Congressmen want a free territory (Kansas) W of Missouri. -
Brooks- sumner Incident
Brooks then decided to "punish" Sumner with a public beating. ... Brooks confronted Sumner, who was seated at his desk, writing letters. -
Harper's Ferry Raid
he and his men would establish a base in the Blue Ridge Mountains from which they would assist runaway slaves and launch attacks on slaveholders. -
Election of 1860
The “wedges of separation” caused by slavery split large Protestant sects into Northern and Southern branches and dissolved the Whig party. Most Southern Whigs joined the Democratic party, one of the few remaining, if shaky, nationwide institutions. -
Firing on Fort sumter
the opening engagement of the Civil War. -
First Battle of Bullrun
was the first major engagement of the Civil War. -
Battle of Antietam
First big battle on American soil. -
Monitor vs Merrimac
two irion clads go against each other to go to war. -
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Sherman's March
he developed an alternative strategy: destroy the South by laying waste to its economic and transportation infrastructure.
