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Declaration of Independence
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United States Constitution
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Jefferson's Election
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Missouri Compromise
-1821: And also, Denmark Vesey's Conspiracy In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise, admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. -
Tariff of Abominations
-1832: and the Nullification Crisis in South Carolina The "Tariff of Abominations" was a protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States that was designed to protect industry in the northern United States. -
Rise of Immediatist Abolitionism
-1831: And, Nat Turner's Revolt. Nat Turner was an enslaved African American who led a rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia in August of 1831. -
Antislavery Petitions
-1837: Congressional Gag Rule imposed, Texas Republic established, annexation debate Gag rule, in U.S. history, any of a series of congressional resolutions that tabled, without discussion, petitions regarding slavery; passed by the House of Representatives between 1836 and 1840 and repealed in 1844. -
Liberty Party formed
was a minor political party in the United States in the 1840s. The party was an early advocate of the abolitionist cause. -
Texas annexed
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Mexican War
-1847: The Mexican–American War, also known as the Mexican War and in Mexico the American intervention in Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States. -
Free Soil Party formed
was a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections, and in some state elections. -
Compromise on former Mexican territories
Also known as the Compromise of 1850, Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
formation of the Republican Party The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. -
Civil war in Kansas
-1856: height of Nativist politics Kansas entered the Union as the 34th state on January 29, 1861. Less than three months later, on April 12, Fort Sumter was attacked by Confederate troops and the Civil War began. -
Dred Scott decision
Controversy over the Lecompton constitution Also known simply as the Dred Scott case, was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on US labor law and constitutional law. -
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
was an effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
Election of Abraham Lincoln
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Civil War
-1865: The American Civil War was fought in the United States. It was the result of a long-standing controversy over slavery that broke out into war. -
13th Amendment
abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime -
14th Amendment
one of the Reconstruction Amendments to the United States Constitution, adopted between 1865 and 1870, the five years immediately following the Civil War. -
15th Amendment
prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
