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Northwest Ordinance
the Confederation Congress, chartered a government for the Northwest Territory, provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory. -
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 stated that acts of the national government beyond the scope of its constitutional powers are "unauthoritative, void, and of no force". -
Hartford Convention
Hartford, Connecticut, United States, in which the New England Federalist Party met to discuss their grievances concerning the ongoing War of 1812 -
Missouri Compromise
Slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri. -
Tariff of 1828
designed to protect industry in the Northern United States. -
Nat Turner's Rebillion
a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831, led by Nat Turner. Rebel slaves killed from 55 to 65 people, at least 51 being white. -
Nullification Crisis
attempts to use force to collect the taxes would lead to the state's secession. -
Texas annexation debate
annexing Texas to the United States, and consented to the convention. On July 4, the Texas convention debated the annexation offer and almost unanimously passed an ordinance assenting to it. -
Wilmot Proviso
Banned slavery anywhere in any territory that might be acquired from Mexico. -
Compromise of 1850
Attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South.The Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
Fugitive Slave Act
As part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. -
Gadsden Purchase
30,000 square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was acquired by the United States in a treaty signed by American ambassador to Mexico James Gadsden. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. -
Bleeding Kansas
The territory would become a battleground over the slavery question. -
Ostend Manifesto
The incident marked the high point of the U.S. expansionist drive in the Caribbean in the 1850s. -
Presidential Election of 1856
The 1856 United States presidential election was the 18th quadrennial presidential election.