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Missouri Comprimse
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In the 1820s tensions began to rise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery when Missouri requested permission to become a slave state. To keep peace congress constructed a 2 part compromise: 1. Missouri would be admitted as a slave state and Maine Would be admitted as a free state. 2. Except for Missouri anyone under the 36 30' line
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"54-40 or Fight"
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Polk called for expansion that included Texas, California, and the entire Oregon territory. The northern boundary of Oregon was the latitude line of 54 degrees, 40 minutes. "Fifty-four forty or fight!" was the popular slogan that led Polk to victory against all odds. Even though he was campaigning for the whole terriotory of Oregon he was secretly willing to compromise. -
Texas Annexation
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The Texas Annexation was a drawn out set of events from Polk declaring war on Mexico to the treaty that set it into place,
the Treaty of Guadalupe. Texas wanted to become apart of the United States but the issue of slavery got into the way and prolonged the annexation. But after paying Mexico the 15 million dollars Texas was apart of us. -
Wilmot Proviso
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When David Wilmot wanted to outlaw slavery from the new terrirories thatwere part of the Mexican Cession. Although the measure was blocked in the southern-dominated Senate, it helped widen the growing sectional conflict, and it inspired politicians of the time such as James Buchanan, Lewis Cass, and John C. Calhoun to formulate their own plans for dealing with slavery as the nation expanded its territory. -
Treaty of Guadalupe- Hidalgo
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The treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including the land that makes up all parts of present-day Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah. Mexico also gave up all claims to Texas and recognized the Rio Grande as America’s southern boundary. In return, the United States paid Mexico $15 million and agreed to settle all claims of U.S. citizens against Mexico. -
Compromise of 1850
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War was resolved, it considered admitting California as a free state intern making Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of slavery by popular sovereignty and it also settled the Texas/New Mexico boundries while ending the slave trade in Washington D.C intern making it easier for Sooutherners to collect fugitive slaves. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Uncle Tom's Cabin was a novel written by an american woman Harriet Beecher Stowe because she wanted to persuade her readers of the evils in slavery. The story examined the "life among the lowly" and helped frame the slavery issue as a moral one. Stowe's dramatic writing style, illustrations proved very persuasive to some readers and offensive to others until some southern states banned the novel. -
Gadsden Purchase
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The treaty settled the dispute over the exact location of the Mexican border giving the U.S. claim to approximately 29,600 square miles of land in what is now southern New Mexico and Arizona, for the price of $10 million. Originally bought for the 1st transcontinental railroad, later realized it completed lower 48 states. All negotiated by James Gadsden. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
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This event was introduced to organize the territory of Nebraska but the southeners objected due to the Missouri Compromise of 1820. To gain support from the south Douglas decided that the region should be made into two seperate areas - Kansas and Nebraska - and he went to his idea of "Popular Sovereignty". Conflict broke out among pro-slavery and anti -slavery and it paved the road for the civil war. -
Republican Party Founded
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The name was first used by Thomas Jefferson's party, later called the Democratic Republican party. At that time the crucial issue of the extension of slavery into the territories split the Democratic party and the Whig party, and opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 organized the new Republican party. Jackson, Mich., is called the birthplace of the party. -
Brooks-Sumner incident
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When Senator Charles Sumner recently gave his "Crime Against Kansas" which taked aout abolishing slavery throughout the Untited States. In his speech he mentioned the name of Senator Andrew Butler whose nephew Senator Preston Brooks took it personally,He proceeded to attack Senator Sumner with a walking stick giving numerous blows to his head and gave him a bad cut because he wanted to punish him. -
Harper's Ferry Raid
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Harpers Ferry was the target of an assault by an armed band of abolitionists led by John Brown. The raid was intended to be the first stage in a plan to establish an independent stronghold of freed slaves in the mountains of Maryland and Virginia. Brown was captured during the raid and later convicted of treason and hanged. the raid scared southerners of slave rebellions and increased tension between North and South. -
Election of 1860
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Abraham Lincoln, former Whig was elected November 6th 1860.On December 20, 1860, the state of South Carolina seceded from the Union. By the time Lincoln delivered his Inaugural Address on March 4, 1861, seven slave states had followed suit. Alabama seceded on January 11, 1861. Lincoln's election only further aggravated tensions. Even if the election did not directly push the nation into civil war, its results clearly hastened the event -
Firing on Fort Sumter
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After a ship called Star of the West arived in Charleston with troops and supplies that was intended for Fort Sumter retreated back to sea because of firing by South Carolina. The major later found 3000 militia breaking into the fort in March 1861.On April 11th 1861 Commander Buegaurd told the Major to leave Fort Sumter and he refused so in rsponse he ordered open fire on Fort Sumter. -
First Battle of Bull Run
www.factmonster.comThis event was the first major engagement of the Civil War where the Union decided to advance with "stone wall" Jackson leading onto the Confederates and their inexperienced army wasn't ready so they retreated. The Confederates also being inexperienced were in no shape to go in pursuit so they rejoiced. -
Monitor v. Merrimac
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On March 9, 1862 as the Merrimack arrived for day two of fighting, it found a Union ship called the Monitor waiting for it. The Confederate ironclad carried more guns than the Monitor, but was unstable. The Union Monitor was the faster and more maneuverable, but it lacked the Rebel vessel’s brutish stregth. Merrimac was blown up on May 11,1862 -
Battle of Antietam
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Generals Robert E. Lee and George McClellan faced off near Antietam creek in Sharpsburg, Maryland, in the the first battle of the American Civil War to be fought on northern soil. Though McClellan failed to utlilize his numerical superiority to crush Lee's army. After a string of Union defeats, this victory led to the Emancipation Proclamation. -
Battle Of Gettysburg
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The greatest battle of the American Civil War, Gettysburg marked the northernmost advance of the Confederate forces and is considered the war's turning point. Three days of fighting ended in the failure of the Confederate army, led by General Robert E. Lee, to invade the North. The North expected the Confederates to break the center of its line. Cut down by enemy fire, the Confederates were quickly overwhelmed&beat -
Sherman's March
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General William T. Sherman led about 60,000 soldirs from Alanta to Savannah Georgia which is about 285 miles because he wanted to scare Georgias population into dropping the Confederates cause.
He said “make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.” -
Appomattox Court House
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General Robert E. Lee of the Confederates surrendered to the Union under General Ulysses S. Grant in Appomattox Court House in Virginia effectivley ending the American Civil War after 4 years of bloody conflict.
