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The Northwest Ordinance
It declared slavery illegal in the new territory acquired and it set a percentage of how new states should enter the Union. The new states would have to enter on equal terms. Kick-starting the Westward Expansion. The Northwest Ordinance help set up a pathway for the states and establish rights for the settler. The Ordinance divided land north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi river into smaller territories. -
Louisiana Purchase
Territory purchased by Thomas Jefferson from Napoleon who needed money for the revolution. He sent Lewis and Clark to explore this territory in hopes of locating a Northwest passage. This is the largest bought territory in the US and is essential for making up a good portion for the country. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Main as a free state. This drew the land for the expansion of slavery at the '36'30'line. -
Monroe Doctrine
President James Monroe issued the policy in 1823. It prevented further European colonization in the south and Central America. This influence the ideas of Manifest Destiny because America could grow and expand without European interference. Because of the Monroe doctrine, the United States became a powerful leader in Western Hemisphere -
Nullification Crisis
The Nullification Crisis says that states have the right to declare a federal law or tax null and void if it harms the states. The federal government passed a very high protective tariff, which angered the South, John C. Calhoun attempted to nullify the tariff starting South Carolina wouldn't pay. Andrew Jackson wanted to maintain that the federal government was stronger than that of the states. e didn't want to lose the support of the South, SC was forced to pay the tariff. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the first battle of the Civil War and it lasted one day. It occurs in the Charleston Harbor at the Union Fort of Fort Sumter. The fall of the fort leads to Confederate control of the Fort. This is important to US History because it was the start of the Civil War. -
Texas Annexation
The United States had a belief that it was a God-given right to move west. Texas was the 28th state to be annexed to the United States. The controversy over the Annexation of Texas was becuase it would increase the state that allowed slavery. -
The Oregon Treaty
This territory was jointly claimed and acquired by the Americans, the British, and the Spanish. However, the Spanish claim to the territory ended after the Adams-Onis treaty was signed. The conflict between the Americans and the British led to the negotiations of a Btitish-American border. -
The Mexican Cession
The Mexican Cession completed Manifest destiny by giving Americans Control of land from the Atlantic to the pacific. It contained territories that made up most of the rest of the southwestern United States. The United States acquired this treaty and it ended the Mexican War. -
The Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 helped develop the idea of popular sovereignty in the Mexican Cession. It outlawed the slave trade in Washinton D.C and strengthed Fugitive Slave laws. It made California a free state and did not allow slavery in the new territories in the Mexican Cession. -
Bleeding (Bloody) Kansas
Bleeding Kansas started because the US allowed citizens to decide whether it should be a slave state or free state. This debate led to extreme violence. Abolosnists John Brown led anti-slavery fighters in Kansas before his famed raid on Harper Ferry. The significance of Bleeding Kansas is that this crisis really pushed the North and South apart and had a great deal to do with causing the Civil War -
The Battle of Antietam
Also known as "tactical draw", on September 17, 1862, the battle of Antietam was the single bloodiest of the war. Twenty-three thousand soldiers died or got wounded. This was the first Southern invasion into the North. Although the Union experienced more losses than the confederacy. Lee retreated to Virginia and Lincoln had found the opportunity he needed to move forward with the Emancripation Proclamation. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation did not free slaves in the regions under Confederate control or in border states. Only states in rebellion on Jan 1, 1863 would be the command to free their slaves. It allowed African Americans to fight on the side of the Union. -
The Battle of Vicksburg
Ulysses S. Grant led the Union and John C. Pemberton led the Confederate. The Union wanted to take control of the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy in half. Lincoln believed the capture of Visburg is key to bringing an end to the war. -
Battle of Gettyburg
General George G. mead led the union and General Robert E. Lee led the Confederacy. Let set off to Pennsylvania to take some Union ground. Although the confederates seemed victorious as night fell on the first night of the battle, swift thinking and action on the part of the Union put them at an advantage. -
The Gettysburg Address
On November 19, 1863, Lincoln Visited the Gettyburg Battlefield to dedicat a cemetery fro the fallen soldiers. He describe the Civil War as struggl to fullfill the Declaration of Independance and preserve a nation dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. -
Sherman's March to Sea
The March to the sea was led by General William Sherman. It was the jouney of the Union Army from Alanta to Savvanah. Geogia During that trip, the Union Army destroyed all factories, railroads and farms along their path. This was known as total warfare. The main pupose of Shermans March to sea in 1864 was to destroy the South strategic and ecomomic capacity to fight. He felt like the South dellivered the destruction of their lands for making war firs. -
13th Amendment (passed)
This Amendment abolished slavery in the United States. After the Civil War. It was written. It was passed by Congress on Jan. 31, 1855. When slavery was made illegal. Southern states had to free all slaves even though they didn't want to. -
President Reconstruction (1863-1867)
Abraham Lincoln created the 10% plan. It started that only 10% of the voters in the 1860 election needed to promise an oath to the union and accept the terms of the Emancipation Proclamation. High military leader and confederate officials were removed from this process. After Lincoln's assassination Andrew Jackson continued his plan. Johnson wanted to broaden the Reconstruction plan. He also granted pardons to the people who swore allegiance to the Union Later Congress impeached Johnson. -
14th Amendment (passed)
This Amendment granted Citizenship to all the people who were born in the United States including former slaves. It forbids states from denying any person "life, liberty or property, without due process of law or to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. -
The 15th Amendment (passed)
The 15th Amendment granted African American men the right to vote. It states that no man can be denied the right to vote because of their "race, ethnicity, or religion. This did not include woman of any race just men -
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
The Supreme Court ruled that the "separate but equal" provision of the Lousiana law was constructional. The case established this principle of segregation unit it was overturned in 1954. This case established "separate but equal", also known as segregation as constructional. After Jim Crow laws came out.