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Mexican-Americna war
Was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848. American forces invaded New Mexico, the California Republic, and parts of what is currently northern Mexico. -
Underground Railroad
At the height of the railroad dmany slaves were able to escape from slave holding states. over 5,000 court cases were recorded. -
Bleeding Kansas
The most violent war. The United States had long struggled to balance the interests of slaveholders and abolitionists. -
Wilmot Provijo
After an earlier attempt to acquire Texas the treaty had failed to receive the necessary two-thirds approval of the Senate, the United States needed the Republic of Texas resolution for Congress that required a majority vote in each house. -
Caning of summer
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sumner](http) Lived on the streets for a very long time then moved into a house. An American politician and senator from Massachusetts. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Was the best top selling novel in the world. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies of the book were sold in the United States; -
Kansas- Nebraska Act
Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty if they would allow slavery within each territory -
Ostend Manifesto
Described the rationale for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain and implied the U.S. should declare war if Spain refused. Cuba's annexation had long been a goal of U.S. expansionists, particularly as the U.S. set its sights southward following the admission of California to the Union. -
Dred Scott Decision
Was an African-American slave in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom. -
Fugitive slave act
Was passed by the United States Congress. As part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. -
Compromise of 1850
Was a package of five bills, passed in September 1850, defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories. -
John Brown's raid
Americnan Revolutionary Abolitionist. John Brown led the Pottawatomie Massacre which five men were killed. In 1856 Bleeding Kansas, John made his name in the unsuccessful raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859.
