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Missouri Compromise
Agreement that admits Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. -
Santa Fe Trail
Stretched 780 miles from Independence, Missouri to
Santa Fe in the Mexican province of New Mexico. -
Missouri Compromise
Agreement that Maine was admitted as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. -
Santa Fe Trail
Stretched 780 miles from Independence, Missouri, to
Santa Fe in the Mexican province of New Mexico. -
San Felipe De Austin
A colony where “no drunkard, no gambler, no profane
swearer, and no idler” would be allowed. Created by STephen F. AUstin. This was made possible from permission by Spain and Mexico. -
Mexico abolishes slavery
Mexico insisted that the Texans abolish slavery too, and many Mexican states revolted because they supported slavery. -
The Liberator
Active in religious reform movements
in Massachusetts, Garrison became the editor of an antislavery paper in 1828.
He wrote the Liberator which he wrote that he wanted immediate emancipation. -
Nat Turners Rebellion
In August 1831, Turner and more than 50 followers attacked four
plantations and killed about 60 whites. White people eventually captured and executed
many members of the group, including Turner -
Stephen F Thompson goes to jail
Stephen Austin had
traveled to Mexico City in 1833 to present petitions to Mexican government. While
Austin was on his way home, they had Austin imprisoned for inciting
revolution. -
Texas Revolution
Mexican President Santa Anna suspends local powers in Texas and other Mexican states and many people revolted against this. -
Oregon Trail
Stretched from Independence,
Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon.Proved that wagons could ride on thsi trail, mostly pioneers migrated on this trail. -
Manifest Destiny
The belief that the United States was to expand to the Pacific
Ocean and into Mexican and Native American territory. -
Manifest Destiny
Expressed the belief that the United States was to expand to the Pacific
Ocean and into Mexican and Native American territory. -
Abolition
The movement to abolish slavery, became the most important of a series of reform movements in America. -
Texas enters the United States
On December 29, 1845,
Texas entered the Union. -
The North Star
Anti slavery paper created by Fredrick Douglass. -
Mexican-American War
Armed conflict between United States and Mexico -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Mexico agreed to the Rio Grande as the border between Texas and Mexico and
ceded the New Mexico and California territories to the United States. -
Compromise of 1850
California admitted into union as free state, and proposed better fugitive state laws. -
Underground Railroad
Free African Americans and white abolitionists developed a
secret network of people who would risk themselves to help hide fugitive
slaves through a system of secret routes. -
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was a free black person, and he came back to be a conductor on the underground railroad to help free slaves. -
Fugitive Slave Acts
Under the law,
alleged fugitive slaves were not entitled to a trial by jury. In addition, anyone convicted of helping a fugitive was liable for a fine or could go to prison. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
By Harriett Beecher Stowe which stressed
that slavery was not just a political contest, but also a great moral struggle. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Nebraska in the north and
Kansas in the south -
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Dred Scott’s slave master had brought him from the slave state
of Missouri to live for a time in free territory and in the free state of Illinois. Eventually
they returned to Missouri. Scott believed that because he had lived in free territory, he
should be free. In 1854 he sued in federal court for his freedom. The court ruled against
him, and he appealed to the Supreme Court. -
Abraham Lincoln and Fredrick Douglass debates
Neither wanted slavery in the territories,
but they disagreed on how to keep it out. Douglas believed deeply in
popular sovereignty. Lincoln, on the other hand, believed that slavery
was immoral. -
John Browns Raid/ Harpers ferry
On the night of October 16, 1859,
John Brown led a band of 21 men, black and white, into Harpers Ferry, Virginia
(now West Virginia). His aim was to seize the federal arsenal there
and start a general slave uprising. -
Abraham Lincoln becomes president
Lincoln emerged as the winner with less than half the popular
vote and with no electoral votes from the South. He did not even appear on the
ballot in most of the slave states because of Southern hostility toward him. The
outlook for the Union was grim. -
Income Tax
A tax that takes a specified percentage of an individual’s income -
Formation of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis was president, S. Carolina, Mississipi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, And texas -
Attack on Fort Sumter
AN island on Charleston Harbor that got attacked by the union. -
Battle at Antietam
The clash proved to be the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with casualties
totaling more than 26,000. -
Battle At Gettysburg
Began on July 1 when Confederate soldiers led by A. P. Hill encountered several brigades of Union cavalry under the command of John Buford, an
experienced officer from Illinois. -
Gettysburg Address
In November 1863, a ceremony was held to dedicate a cemetery in Gettysburg. There, President Lincoln spoke for a little more
than two minutes. And gave his Gettysnurg Adress -
Battle of Bull Run
25 miles from
Washington, D.C. The battle was a seesaw affair. In the afternoon Confederate
reinforcements helped win the first Southern victory. Fortunately for the Union,
the Confederates were too exhausted to follow up their victory with an attack on
Washington. Still, Confederate morale soared -
Emancipation Proclamation
The proclamation did not free any slaves immediately because it applied only
to areas behind Confederate lines, outside Union control. Nevertheless, for many,
the proclamation gave the war a moral purpose by turning the struggle into a fight
to free the slaves. -
Conscription
A draft that forced men to serve in the army.
In the North, conscription led to draft riots, the most violent of which took place
in New York City. -
Battle at Vicksburg
One of the two remaining Confederate strongholds on
the Mississippi River. Vicksburg itself was particularly important because it rested
on bluffs above the river from which guns could control all water traffic. -
Shermans March
In the
spring of 1864, Sherman began
his march southeast through
Georgia to the sea, creating a
wide path of destruction. His
army burned almost every house
in its path and destroyed livestock and railroads. -
Surrender at Appomattox Court House
On April 3, 1865, Union troops conquered Richmond, the Confederate capital. Southerners had abandoned the city the
day before, setting it afire to keep the Northerners from taking it. -
Thirteenth Amendment
The U.S. Constitution now
stated, “Neither slavery nor involuntary
servitude, except as a punishment for crime
whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States" -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth killed President Abraham Lincoln
