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the missouri compromise
the missouri compromise It is important because the Missouri Compromise stipulated that all the Louisiana Purchase territory north of the southern boundary of Missouri, except Missouri, would be free, and the territory below that line would be slave. -
54-40 or fight
54-40 or fight It was important because Polk's plan was to claim and go to war over the entire territory for the United States. and that was the slogan he used to persuade his voters. -
texas annexation
texas annexation The texas annexation was important because it was a large amount of land that our country would take on, strengthen the United States as a country. -
wilmot proviso
wilmot proviso The importance of wimot proviso was to ban slavery in the territory acquired by the mexican war. but even when the law was passed by the house the senate ajourned without voting on it. making it never go into full effect. -
treaty of guadalupe-hidalgo
treaty of gaudalupe-hidago it is important because the US acquired texas and california from mexico helping us expand our country. -
compromise of 1850
compromise of 1850 it was important because it was a series of bills that tried to alleviate slavery, it made CA a state as well. -
uncle tom's cabin
uncle tom's cabin it is important because it helped fuel the abolotionist cause in the 1850s. -
republican party founded.
republican party founded it was important because the people of the republican party were anti slaver whigs, since the actual whig party had disintergrated. when it was founded it began to rapidly gain supporters in the north. -
gadsden purchase
gadsden purchase the purchase was the last major territorial acquistion in the contiguous united states adding a large area to the united states. -
kansas - nebraska act.
kansas - nebraska act its important because it created the territories of nebraska and kansas opening new lands for settlement and repealed the missouri compromise allowing settlers to choose whether they wanted slavery or not through popular sovereignty. -
brooks - sumner incident.
brooks - sumner incident it was important cause it really put the north and south against eachother, both sides reacted differently. brooks hit sumner so hard with the cane that part of it shattered. -
harpers ferry raid
harpers ferry raid it is important because it was an attempt by white abolitionist john brown to start an armed slave revolt by seizing a united states arsenal on harpers ferry. -
election of 1860
election of 1860 it is important because it accurately registered the country's precarious condition after a decade of sectional turmoil. -
firing on fort sumter
firing on fort sumter the battle of fort sumter is important because that is what jump started the revolutionary war. -
first battle of bull run
first battle of bull run its important because the northern public clamored for a march against the confederate capital just months after the start of the war at fort sumter. -
monitor vs merrimac
monitor vs merrimack it was important cause this battle was apart of the effort to the confedaracy to break the union blockade. -
battle of antietam
battle of antietam its important because it is the first major battle in the american civil war to take place on union soil. -
battle of gettysburg
battle of gettysburg its important because it was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the american civil war. -
shermans march to the sea.
shermans march it is important because it inflicted significant damage, particularly to industry and infrastructure per the doctorine of total war and also to civilian property. -
appamattox courthouse
appomattox courthouse it is important because it was one of the last wars of the american civil war.
