U.S. History

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    French and Indian War

  • Proclamation Line

    Americans weren't allowed to settle west of the Appalachians

  • Stamp Act

  • Boston Massacre

  • Battle of Lexington

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    American Revolution

  • Decleration of Indipendence

  • Articles of Confederation

  • Treaty of Paris

    Established American freedom

  • Raticifation of Constitution

  • George Washington - Federalist

  • Adopion of Bill of Rights

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    Whiskey Rebellion

    A rebellion protesting a tax on whiskey.

  • First US Bank

  • George Washington - Federalist

  • John Adams - Federalist

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    Alien and Sedition Acts

  • Thomas Jefferson - Republican

  • Lousiana Purchase

  • Thomas Jefferson - Republican

  • James Madison

  • Florlida Cession

    Spain sold Florida to the U.S.

  • Missouri Compromise

    An agreement where Missouri joined America as a slave state and Maine joined as a free state keeping the balance equal. Slavery was also banned above a certain latitude (Except Missouri)
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    Andrew Jackson Presidency

    Indian Removal Act, many treaties

  • Indian Removal Act

    Granted Natives unsetted land far west in exchange for land within state boundaries

  • American Anti-Slavery Society

    This society was founded with the goal to end slavery by spreading the aboloitionist message. They mailed out pamphlets and had meetings.

  • Burning abolitionist literature in Charleston

    A mob of slavery supporters burnt abolitionists literature in Charleston. A lot of the material burnt was from the American Anti-Slavery Society.

  • Gag Rule

    A rule that forced House of Representatives to ignore all anti-slavery petitions. Abolitionists sill wrote letters/petitions to end slavery and eventtually the rule was overturned becausee of strong opposition to slavery in the North

  • Pennsylvania Hall Burns

    A mob completely burnt a building in Pennsylvania. This building was commonly used for abolitionist meetings before it was burnt.
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    James Folk Presidency

    Won Mexican-American War

  • Texas Annexation

    Texas joining America as the 28th state
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    Mexican American War

    War started my America which rsulted in America gaining a lot of Mexican territory

  • Oregon Treaty

    Established border between America and British North America

  • Mexican Cession

    Mexico sold about half of its territory to the U.S. for $15 million

  • Fugitive Slave Act

    Made U.S. marshalss and deputies help slave owners to recover their escaped slaves. Southerners were unhappy that the North was helping escaped slaves and abolitionists though that states should be allowed to ignore the law.

  • Compromise of 1850

    California became a free state, the slave trade was banned, and the new territories got to vote on whether they would have slavery when they became states

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

    A book published in respose to the fugitive slave act. It was the highest selling book of the 19th century. It explained how bad slavery was.

  • Gadsden Purschase

    U.S. bought whatt is now Arizona and New MExico from Mexico

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Act that got rid of the Missouri Compromise line. It allowed Nebraska and Kansas to become slave states based on the popular vote. Abolitionists were unhappy about this.

  • Bleeding Kansas

    Many people moved into Kansas to influence the vote on whether slavery would exist in Kansas. Because of disagreements on whether there should be slavery, there was lots of violence.

  • Dred Scott Decision

    A supreme court case where a slave sued for freedom because his master had taken him into free territory. Court ruled against Scott and said that no slave or their decendant could be a citizen, and that congress has no power to outlaw slavery, so any state could become a slave state if they wanted.

  • John Brown's Raid

    A group of men raided a town in Virginia, trying to give slaves weapons and free them. They help many important people hostage, but were eventually caught and hanged.

  • Election of Abraham Lincoln

    Many Southereners were extremely unhappy that Lincoln got eected because they though that he would try to end slavery.
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    Secession

    Many Southern states were afriad that slavery would end so they left the U.S.

  • Fort Sumter

    Southerners believed that they had their own country and started taking over federal buildings. But Lincoln though that no state is allowed to legally leave the U.S. Southern troops attacked Fort Sumter to take control of it and Lincoln made federal troops defend the fort. This was the start of the civil war.