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A journey down the Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail was one of the main ways people had access to the west. It was 2,170 miles long and lasted from 1843 to 1884. This well used trail went through six different states, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, and Oregon.
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The Mexican't American War
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Link to Written Piece: https://docs.google.com/a/odathunder.org/document/d/1dO3SNrI7EXIxDDJs7i_xsnwaqFo-Q23jVNCv_QP5YKU/edit?usp=sharing The Mexican American War took place from 1846-1848. It was fought because of border disputes between Mexico and the United States and was settled with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. This war increased America’s land, lead to the emergence of new leaders, and sparked debates about the status of slaves and Mexicans in the new territories. -
PROVISO:THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE LONG FOUGHT DEBATE
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The Wilmot Proviso introduced by David Wilmot in 1846, was an attempt to ban slavery in the territory gained by the United States from Mexico during the Mexican-American war. It sparked serious controversy in the early stages of the war because it further increased tension between the North and the South regarding the issue of slavery. -
The GREATEST Treaty You Never Heard Of
Signed on February 2, 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo shaped American history by allowing for economic and territorial expansion, once again bringing up the issue of slavery, and resolving border uncertainties.
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Inequality=Not Rad
The Radical Republicans were Civil War era legislators who were part of their majority faction of the Republican Party, they heavily opposed slavery and the plans for a lenient Reconstruction process, and they supported measures to increase equality, such as universal manhood suffrage in the South.
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The Grand Old Party
The republican party, formed in 1854, was the beginning of a more persistent abolitionist movement which played a great role in the election of 1860, the emancipation proclamation, and sectionalism existing during the civil war. The Lerning Objective that ties into this subject is politics and power
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"All men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics" / The Know-Nothings
The Know-Nothings VideoThe Know-Nothing Party, also known as the American Party, was a prominent United States nativist and xenophobic political movement of the late 1840s and 1850s, which originated in New England, and was empowered by strong beliefs that immigrants hostile to the American values where overwhelming the country. It sprang from increasingly popular nativist sentiments in reaction to the influx of immigrants resulting from the Irish potato famine. -
Great Scott! No reason to Dred slavery! (The Dred Scott decision)
The Dred Scott decision was a Supreme Court case that heightened tensions over slavery, broadening the gap between slaves and citizens, and eventually leading to the Civil War. The decision sparked many debates about the Missouri Compromise, the Constitution, and the government's stance on slavery. Dred Scott Decision Video Paragraph
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The Lincoln Douglas Debates: To Slave or Not to Slave
The Lincoln Douglas Debate VideoIn 1858, the tension between political parties was rapidly expanding as the dispute over African Americans continued to grow. The debate set the tone for the upcoming election that will ultimately decide the fate of the country. The nation was split between free states and slave states, and the winner of the election of 1860 decided the path the country took. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates are a significant point in history because they clearly define the opinions of each political party and intent -
John Brown's Raid: Harpers Ferry
Harpers Ferry was an attack against slavery led by John Brown which further divided the North and the South because of the differing regional opinions on John Brown's extremist actions. John Brown was an avid abolitionist who saw violence as the only way to stop slavery.
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The Election That Changed Everything
videoThe election of 1860 was not Republicans vs Democrats but North vs South. The election was during the climax of the conflict between the North and South over slavery. The most popular canidate, Abraham Lincoln disliked slavery and when elected with no southern states voting for him it ended with the confederate states being formed and the Civil War beginning. Lincoln won the presidential seat with less than half of voters on his side, which also sparked the south to secede. -
The Civil War, The Armies of the Ultimate Nation
In the match up of the Civil War, the Union had surpeior man power, navy, and an industrial presence leading to a belief of a quick war, however the Confederacy's strong determination and great leadership lead to a 5 year war with hundreds of thousands of death. This is the link to the video
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Fort Sumter is Somethin'
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Got Bodies? (Lincoln's Suspension of Habeas Corpus in Maryland)
President Lincoln suspended habeas corpus in Maryland on April 27, 1861 in response to hearing that anti-war Marylanders were going to destroy a railway that was instrumental in the North’s plan to fight the South. This was to quell opposition in Maryland. He also later suspended it in both the Union and Confederacy, despite the fact that the Supreme Court ruled his suspension unconstitutional in the case /ex parte Merryman/. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7IcqfVQKD41dTZ6ZThyM29HaG8 -
Scott's Great Snake
The Anaconda Plan: the plan to establish the Union Blockade and gain control over the Tennessee and Mississippi River Valleys. The plan was essentially to take away their ability to recieve or distribute weapons and war supplies. This plan won the Union the war against the Confederates.
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Chillin on the Homestead
Homestead Act Abraham Lincoln enacted the Homestead Act after the Civil War on May 20th, 1862. It stated that any citizen, or settler intending to become a citizen, could claim up to 160 acres of land as long as they lived on, and improved, it for at least five years. A settler could also choose to pay $1.25 an acre and obtain the land after only 6 months of living on it. The Homestead Act promoted westward expansion and agriculture across the US, to help ordinary people, however many problems arose with land -
The Great Gettysburg: The Second Battle for American Freedom
Gettysburg was a major and strategic point in the Civil War that would determine the fate of the Union and more importantly determine the future of social, political, and economic systems in the United States. Click me for more information Click me to watch the video on Gettysburg -
What a Riot!
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Following Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, floods of free blacks from the South poured into the economies of the North. Fueled by racial hatred, the new source of cheap labor arising in the North, and the exemption of blacks from the first drafts for the Civil War, pro-slavery whites in New York City led an insurrection which ravaged the city from July 13-16, 1863. -
Sherman's March to the Seas
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Civil War Amendments
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The Civil War Amendments, otherwise known as the Reconstruction Amendments, are the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and the Fifteenth Amendments in the US Constitution. They were adopted immediately after the Civil War(1865-1870) to protect and ensure equality for recently freed slaves. -
Land of the Freedmen, home of the Brave (Freedmen's Bureau)
Watch Video Here!!After the establishment of the Freedmen’s Bureau Bill on March 3, 1865, the United States federal government agency offered aid to newly freed slaves and refugees through education, essential goods, and legal recognition and documentation of African American marriage. Lead by General Oliver O. Howard, the Freedmen’s Bureau worked to assist newly freed slaves in the process of becoming independent. The Freedmen’s Bureau is most famously noted for its education of African Americans and its family -
The Black Codes
After the Civil War and the signing of the 13th Amendment, free African Americans still had restrictions of freedom due to the new set of Southern Laws passed in 1865 and 1866 called the Black Codes. These codes denied newly freed slaves basic constitutional rights, created new methods of forcing involuntary servitude, and later led to the establishment of new civil rights laws. Link to the video:
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Young Hickory and the New Look Union
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Thesis: The assassination of President Lincoln severely hampered a strong reconciliation between the North and the South. It also made Andrew Johnson the President and he changed the policy for Reconstruction while trying to balance the angry Northerners, provide fairness to Southerners, and protect newly freed slaves. Thesis and Paragraph: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Nzrs0eQr7CLKeGtMprc9r2fAFFazBmTTDKl_egZ6kv8/edit -
The KKK or "Confederate Ghosts"?
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Death to Reconstruction
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The Election of 1877 sparked controversy throughout the United States over voting irregularities and ultimately led to the end of Reconstruction.
