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Wilmot Proviso
Wilmot Proviso, in U.S. history, important congressional proposal in the 1840s to prohibit the extension of slavery into the territories, a basic plank upon which the Republican Party was subsequently built.
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Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
The Mexican-American War, waged between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848, helped to fulfill America's "manifest destiny" to expand its territory across the entire North American continent.
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, that brought an official end to the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), was signed on February 2, 1848, at Guadalupe Hidalgo, a city north of the capital where the Mexican government had fled with the advance of U.S. forces.
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Mexican Cession (1848)
The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo was the peace treaty between the United States and Mexico that officially ended the Mexican War. The conflict lasted until the treaty was signed on February 2, 1848, in Guadalupe Hidalgo, a city in south central Mexico.The core of the treaty defined the "Mexican Cession," the territory that Mexico was obliged to cede to the United States as a result of the war.
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Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War (1846–1848).
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Fugitive Slave Law (1850)
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 allowed the capture and return of fugitive slaves to their rightful owners within the territories of the United States. It was one of the five acts included in the Compromise of 1850. According to the US Census the number of slaves reported as fugitives in free states in 1850 was 1,011.
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Kansas-Nebraksa Act (1854)
Kansas-Nebraska Act, (May 30, 1854), in the antebellum period of U.S. history, critical national policy change concerning the expansion of slavery into the territories, affirming the concept of popular sovereignty over congressional edict.
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"Bleeding Kansas" (1856)
Bleeding Kansas, (1854–59), small civil war in the United States, fought between proslavery and antislavery advocates for control of the new territory of Kansas under the doctrine of popular sovereignty.
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Dred Scott v Sanford (1857)
Dred Scott v. Sandford was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on U.S. labor law and constitutional law."a negro, whose ancestors were imported into [the U.S.], and sold as slaves, whether enslaved or free, could not be an American citizen, and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court, and the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the creation of the US"
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1859)
The Lincoln–Douglas debates (aka as The Great Debates of 1858) were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. At the time, U.S. senators were elected by state legislatures; thus Lincoln and Douglas were trying for their respective parties to win control of the Illinois General Assembly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln–Douglas_debates -
Raid of Harper's Ferry (1859)
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (also known as John Brown's raid or The raid on Harpers Ferry; in many books the town is called "Harper's Ferry") was an effort by white abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
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Election of 1860
The election of Abraham Lincoln in November 1860 was perhaps the most significant election in American history. It brought Lincoln to power at a time of great national crisis, as the country was coming apart over the issue of slavery. The electoral win by Lincoln, the candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party, prompted the slave states of the American South to begin serious discussions about secession. https://www.thoughtco.com/election-of-1860-abraham-lincoln-1773934 -
Battle of Fort Sumter (1861)
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the first battle of the American Civil War. The intense Confederate artillery bombardment of Major Robert Anderson’s small Union garrison in the unfinished fort in the harbor at Charleston, South Carolina, had been preceded by months of siege-like conditions.
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Emancipation Proclamation (1862)
One month later, after the qualified Union victory in the Battle of Antietam, Lincoln issued a preliminary proclamation warning that in all states still in rebellion on January 1, 1863, he would declare their slaves “then, thenceforward, and forever free.”
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Battle of Antietam (1862)
The Battle of Antietam, a.k.a. Battle of Sharpsburg, resulted in not only the bloodiest day of the American Civil War, but the bloodiest single day in all of American history. Fought primarily on September 17, 1862, between the town of Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek, it ended Gen. Robert E. Lee’s first invasion of a northern state.
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Battle of Gettysberg (1863)
The Battle of Gettysburg, fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863, is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War.On July 3, Lee ordered an attack by fewer than 15,000 troops on the enemy’s center at Cemetery Ridge. The assault, known as “Pickett’s Charge,” managed to pierce the Union lines but eventually failed with much casualties and Lee was forced to withdraw his battered army toward Virginia on July 4.
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Battle of Vicksburg (1863)
The Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi was the culmination of a long land and naval campaign by Union forces to capture a key strategic position during the Civil War. President Lincoln recognized the significance of the town situated on a 200-foot bluff above the Mississippi River. Capturing Vicksburg would sever the Trans-Mississippi Confederacy from that east of the Mississippi River and open the river to Northern traffic along its entire length.
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Election of 1864
American presidential election held on Nov. 8, 1864, in which Republican Pres. Abraham Lincoln defeated Democrat George B. McClellan. As the election occurred during the American Civil War, it was contested only by the states that had not seceded from the Union.
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13th Amendment (1865)
Thirteenth Amendment, amendment (1865) to the Constitution of the United States that formally abolished slavery. The Emancipation Proclamation, declared and promulgated by Pres. Abraham Lincoln in 1863 during the American Civil War, freed only those slaves held in the Confederate States of America. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Thirteenth-Amendment -
Freedmen's Bureau (1865)
The Freedmen's Bureau was created in 1865 during the Lincoln administration, by an act of Congress called the Freedman's Bureau Bill. It was passed on March 3, 1865, in order to aid former slaves through food and housing, oversight, education, health care, and employment contracts with private landowners.
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Lincoln's assassination (1865)
The Assassination of President Lincoln. April 14, 1865. Shortly after 10 p.m. on April 14, 1865, actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C., and fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln.
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Civil Rights Act of 1866
The Civil Rights Act of 1866, enacted April 9, 1866, was the first United States federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law.
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Military reconstruction (1867)
Essentially, the Reconstruction Act of 1867 turned the South into a conquered military state, which mainly divided the South into five regions, each governed by a Union general. The act is known by several names, including the First Reconstruction Act and the Military Reconstruction Act.
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14th Amendment (1868)
The 14th amendment was adopted in 1868, after the American Civil War, and addresses the equal protection and rights of former slaves. The 14th amendment limits the action of state and local officials. In addition to equal protection under the law to all citizens, the amendment also addresses what is called "due process", which prevents citizens from being illegally deprived of life, liberty, or property.
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15th Amendment (1870)
The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
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Election of 1876
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Compromise of 1877
Compromise of 1877, the End of Reconstruction: The Withdrawal of the Soldiers from the South. The Withdrawal of the federal Soldiers from the South followed the Compromise of 1877. President Rutherford Hayes recalled the troops, and all the Southern states at once passed into the control of the Democrats.
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