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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was the legislation that provided for the admission to the United States of Maine as a free state along with Missouri as a slave state, thus maintaining the balance of power between North and South in the United States Senate. In addition, the 36 30 was created because of this compromise. This line stated that slavery was abolished forever above this line in the Louisiana purchase territory. -
Wilmot Proviso
It was a amendment that sought to prohibit slavery from territories acquired from Mexico. Introduced by Pennsylvania congressman David Wilmot, the failed amendment ratcheted up tensions between North and South over the issue of slavery. The conflict over the Wilmot proviso was one of the major events leading to the American Civil War. I was ultimately an unsuccessful proposal -
Mexican American War
The Mexican American War started on April 4, 1846 and ended on February 2, 1848. One of the main factors that lead to war is Texas's independence in 1846. Also because American military in Texas were attacked by Mexican military. president at the time James Polk wanted to expand the US, "manifest destiny". -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Hidalgo was a peace treaty that officially ended the Mexican American War. As a result of this treaty the United States gained an immense amount of land (525,000 square miles). It included present day California, New Mexico, Arizona Nevada, Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. -
Compromise of 1850
Admitted California as a free state, opened New Mexico and Utah to popular sovereignty, ended the slave trade (but not slavery itself) in Washington D.C., and introduced a more stringent fugitive slave law. Widely opposed in both the North and South, it did little to settle the escalating dispute over slavery. The Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850 added more tension between the North and South, leading to the Civil War. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This proposed that the issue of slavery be decided by popular sovereignty in the Kansas and Nebraska territories, thus revoking the 1820 Missouri Compromise. Introduced by Stephen Douglass in an effort to bring Nebraska into the Union and pave the way for a northern transcontinental railroad.
