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missouri comprimise
a bill that temporarily resolves the first serious political clash between slavery and antislavery interests in U.S. history. -
texas annexation
After Texas gained independence, its annexation to the United States created diplomatic problems with Mexico and internal controversy over slavery. -
54-40 or fight
The southern boundary of the United States with Mexico was not the only western territory under dispute. -
wilmot proviso
Yet the Pennsylvania representative was so adamantly against the extension of slavery to lands ceded by Mexico, he made a proposition that would divide the Congress. -
treaty of guslupe-hidalago
"There shall be firm and universal peace between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic, and between their respective Countries, territories, cities, towns and people, without exception of places or persons." -
comprimise of 1850
The Compromise was actually a series of bills passed mainly to address issues related to slavery. -
uncle toms cabin
It demanded that the United States deliver on the promise of freedom and equality, galvanized the abolition movement and contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War. -
gadsden purchase
Gadsden’s Purchase provided the land necessary for a southern transcontinental railroad and attempted to resolve conflicts that lingered after the Mexican-American War. -
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. -
republican party founded
In Ripon, Wisconsin, former members of the Whig Party meet to establish a new party to oppose the spread of slavery into the western territories. -
brooks vs sumner incedent
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harpers theory raid
John Brown was a rebel abolitionist who despised everything the Union was attempting to do. -
election of 1860
The crucial point was reached in the presidential election of 1860, in which the Republican candidate, Abraham Lincoln, defeated three opponents -
fort sumter
On Thursday, April 11, 1861, Confederate Brig. Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard dispatched aides to Maj. Anderson to demand the fort’s surrender. Anderson refused. The next morning, at 4:30 a.m., Confederate batteries opened fire on Fort Sumter and continued for 34 hours. -
firstbattle of bull run
The Union army, under pressure to crush the rebellion in the South, marched towards Richmond, but met the Confederate forces coming north from Manassas, a Southern base. -
monitor vs merrimack
On the evening of February 17, 1864, the Confederacy H. L. Hunley sank the USS Housatonic and became the first submarine in world history to sink an enemy ship. -
battle of antietam
Lee was trying to invade the North, change Maryland into a Confederate state, and stop the North from invading the South for a while. -
battle of gettysburg
Lee was forced to withdraw his battered army toward Virginia on July 4. -
shermans march
Sherman's troops carried the war to the Southern home front and blazed a wide path of destruction that delivered the death blow to the Confederacy's will and ability to fight -
appomattox court house
Early on April 9, the remnants of John Brown Gordon’s corps and Fitzhugh Lee’s cavalry formed line of battle at Appomattox Court House.
