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Manifest Destiny
The belief that people were destined to expand North. The Oregon and Moron trail helped this. -
Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun
These two men were for slavery and Daniel Webster even went as far as too fight in the war but was killed. -
Nat Turner, David Walker, and Fredrik Douglas
All three of these people were African Americans who were very much against slavery and held rebellions of it. -
Henry Clay
He was a spokesperson for some states and was against slavery he was white man. -
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Steps to civil war
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Missouri Comprimise
This compromise made it so that the state of Missouri was a slave state and sp that the state of Maine was a free state they did this in order to maintain the balance between the two sides. -
Liberator is published
Published by William Lloyd Garrison it was an anti-slavery newspaper. -
Chinese Immigrants
During this part of time Chinese people began to immigrate to America and it created another problem with discrimination. There was a Chinese exclusion act put into place later in the 1800's. -
Dred Scott
Dred Scott was an African American who successfully sued for his freedom. The case fell under the same constitutional laws as the Armistad case. Roger B. Taney was the judge that deemed blacks weren't citizens. -
Mexican American War
A war between Mexico and America that was caused by manifest Destiny because the Mexicans felt as though that was their land/. -
Liberia
Liberia is colonized by the free African Americans being sent back to Africa. The US created the Blackzionism movement to do this. -
Harriet Tubman escapes slavery
Harriet Tubman escapes from the place she was being held as a slave and creates the Underground Railroad and helps to free slaves. Helped over -
Compromise of 1850
It made it so that certain states were either free or not. Made up of five acts
California comes in the union as a free state
Popular sovereignty were upheld in New Mexico & Utah
Texas & New Mexico settled disputes about border
Fugitive Slave Act becomes Fugitive Slave Law
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Uncle Toms Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stow publishes Uncle Toms Cabin as part of the pro-slavery movement. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Allowed the states of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not they were going to have slavery. Stephen Douglas made this, he was the person who ran against Abraham Lincoln in the run for the title of the 16th president of the United States. Goes along with popular sovereignty, because the states were allowed to choose for themslves. -
Gadsen Purchase
The purchase of Arizona and New Mexico from -
Harper's Ferry
An Anti-slavery protest led by John Brown was a two day protest. John Brown was hung and killed for this. -
South Secedes from the Union
The first state North Carolina secedes from the union. Fearing that slavery would become totally outlawed the South decided to secede from the Union so that no laws in the Union impacted them. This was the final push that started the civil war.
