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The civil war
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3\5 compromise
At the constiutional convention, it was agreed that every 3 out of 5 slaves would count towards representation in congress. helps lead to the civil wart becuase as states were added debate over states v, slaves increased. -
The Missouri compromise
The Missouri Compromise seemed to reslove the issue by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, keeping the amount of free and slave states equal. It also seperated the rest of the Louisiana Purchase into slave and free territory. -
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The Missouri compromise
Slavery first appeared in america in the early 1600s. It was still active during the American Revolution, even after Thomas Jefferson wrote his famous sentences in the Declaration of Independence, "All men are created equal. -
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Kansas nebraska act
The kansas nebraska act was another compromise to end slavery.
It allowed people in their terriotires to decide whether or not allow slavery. -
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Mexican American war
Mexico becomes an independent country. Mexico grants slaveholding
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Mexican American war
Many settlers rebel against mexico and demand independence. Mexico dosent see texas as an independent state. -
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Manifest Destiny
In this article it shows western terriortory expansion with slavery.
And John l sullivian expressing the United States should stop treating texas like its not a state. -
Manifest Destiny
¨“Our national birth was the beginning of a new history…which separates us from the past and connects with the future only…we may comfortably assume that our country is destined to be the great nation of futurity.”¨ This attitued increased western settlement and raging war against mexico. -
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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Maryland. He served Various masters and was separated from his family and loved ones throughout his time being a slave. -
Fredrick Douglass
In Fredrick douglass early 20’s, after many failed actions, he ran away to New York, eventually living in Massachusetts where he worked for both religious and abolitionist organizations. Fortunate to learn literature skills as a young man, Douglass developed great skill with the written and spoken word as a freed man. -
kansas nebraksa act
The kansas nebraska act was an act to help end slavery when the missouri compromise didnt. This act was created by stephen A douglass from illionis. His goal was to end slavery expansion. -
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Dred Scott Decison
¨The three hundred and forty-seven thousand five hundred and twenty-five Slaveholders in the Republic, accomplished day before yesterday a great success -- as shallow men estimate success. They converted the Supreme Court of Law and Equity of the United States of America into a propagandist of human Slavery.¨ -
Dred Scott Decison
The supreme court made a decison that changed slavery. The supreme court granting the rights to slave owners to bring their slaves into western terriories. -
Debates in history
The major issues seperating the nation--slavery against free labor, popular sovereignty, and the legal and political status of african Americans --were brought into the main focus in a series of dramatic debates during the 1858 election campaign for U.S. senator from Illinois. -
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Debates in history
Stephen Douglass was a U.S senator from illionis.
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Union vs Confederacy
The confederate states of america was a government formed in 1861. This government was made to take down the union of the united states. -
Union vs Confederacy
The confederacy was made from the southern states secession from the united states. Jefferson Davis was the president during this time. -
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Emancipation Proclamation
After two years of war, Lincoln suggested to free the slaves that were in confederacy ¨(but not those in Union states)¨. On September 22, 1862, he issued the first version of the proclamation which said that the final document would take place January 1, 1863. -
Emancipation proclamation
President lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation on january first 1863. This is the 3rd year the nation approached its bloody war.
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Gettysburgh Address
The gettysburgh address was a speech made to tribute the soldiers who fought in the battle of gettysburg. This speech symbolizes a little bit of the declaration of independence. -
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Gettsyburgh address
Six months after the Union won in the Battle of Gettysburg, Lincoln delivered his speech as part of a tribute of the Gettysburg cemetery. 23,000 Union soldiers and 28,000 Confederacy soldiers died at the battle of Gettysburg
