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mexican/american war
The Mexican–American War, was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836 Texas Revolution. -
wilmot provice
major events leading to the Civil War, would have banned an event tht banted slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future, including the area later known as the Mexican Cession, but which some proponents construed to also include the disputed lands in south Texas and New Mexico east of the Rio Grande. -
compromise of 1850
was a package of five bills, passed in September 1850 which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War -
fugitive slave act
This was one of the most important acts of the 1850 compromise and Northern fears of a slave power conspiracy. It declared that all runaway slaves be brought back to their masters -
uncle toms cabin
A book that talks about the hard life on being the slave it also reinforced by a story that when Abraham Lincoln met Stowe at the start of the Civil War, Lincoln declared, "So this is the little lady who started this great war." -
Kansas/nebraska act
The act was passed by Southern votes, Democratic and Whig alike, and Douglas had little to do with it this was the first appearance of the Solid South, and the opponents of the Act saw it as the triumph of the hated Slave Power and formed the Republican Party to stop it -
ostend manifesto
The Ostend Manifesto was a document written in 1854 that described the rationale for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain while implying that the U.S. should declare war if Spain refused -
caning of charles sumner
In 1856, South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks nearly killed Sumner on the Senate floor for ridiculing slaveowners as a pimp after three years of medical treatment Sumner returned to the Senate as the war began. -
Dred Scott Decision
was a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that people of African descent brought into the United States and held as slaves were not protected by the Constitution and could never be U.S. citizens -
bleeding kansas
is a group of violent political confrontations involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and towns of Missouri between 1854 and 1858. the question of whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free state or slave state -
John Brown's raid
was an attempt by white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt by seizing a United States Arsenal at Harpers Ferry in Virginia in 1859. Brown's raid was defeated by a detachment of U.S. Marines led by Col. Robert E. Lee. -
underground railroad
Created in the early 19th century, the Underground Railroad was at its height between 1850 and 1860.[5] One estimate suggests that by 1850, 100,000 slaves had escaped via the "Railroad".[
