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Fugitive Slave Act
It said that Escaped slaves had to return to their owners -
Louisiana purchase
Brief Description:Thomas jefferson sent james monroe to go and negotiate with france for the port city of new orleans but during the time there was a slave revolt and france was going to war so The U.S. got a deal for it all around 15 mill for all of louisiana -
Obtaining florida
Brief Description: there were seminole that would raid georgian farms along with slaves that would run away to florida to hide. Then andrew jackson was set to patrol the border but he decided to attack and take a nearby military post. Spain was angry at the U.S. for this act and after think the president said “GOVERN OR GET OUT” Then America bought the land from them -
Missouri Compromise
This added Missouri and Maine ias state in the US and one was made a slave state and one is a free state -
Trail of tears
Andrew Jackson ignored the orders of a treaty with the Cherokee. U.S. troops rounded up about 15,000 Cherokee and put them in prison camps. Local residents burned the native’s homes. Troops then sent the Cherokee west in groups of about 1,000 on a path known now as the Trail of Tears. -
Oregon Trail
The trail started in missouri and it went 2000 miles for settlers in oregon this was from 1811-1840 -
Obtaining Texas
Brief Description: American settlers moved to texas. They decided not to be a part of mexico Then they began their own revolution. After a while texas won ad it became its own country after ten years us annexed texas -
Gold Rush
John augustus sutter found the first gold and caused many people to dash to california in hope of gold. Due to this the city san francisco grow to be a huge city -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Brief Description: This treaty was signed and ended the mexican- american war as a result result the border between the 2 was set at the rio grande. They got the land known as the mexican cession, known as california nevada utah new mexico and arizona -
Compromise of 1850
This was created after the mexican-american war, and it was set to affect all the and of the mexican cesson. It said only new mexico and utah were to have slaves -
Fugitive Slave Act 2
It set Penalties for anyone who helped slaves escaped -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Nebraska and Kansas were added as territories. This act repealed Missouri compromise. This allowed states to chose if they wanted to allow slavery or not. -
Homestead Act
It prompted people to buy land and build houses out west, They can buy up to 16o acres of land and the requirements are They had to work on the land and improve it along with they had to be a head of a family or they had to be over 21 -
Transcontinental Railroad
It was a railway where Union pacific started in the midwest and Central Pacific in Nevada
