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| Land Ordinance (Appalachians in 1784; sold land 1785) |
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| Constitutional Convention (check and balances) |
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| Northwest Ordinance (1st organized territory) |
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| Federalists vs. Anti-federalists |
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| Indian leader who fought with the British against US |
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| Why was the war of 1812 fought? |
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| Fought against the British b/c the US had not paid its debts. |
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| attempts by British to colonize in US are considered acts of aggression |
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| agreement between proslavery and anti salve factions that involved regulation of slavery in Western Territories. Prohibited slavery in former Louisiana Territory North of the parallel 36x30. |
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| replaced many office holders with people from his own party who helped to elect him. |
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| South Carolina didn't like Tariff of 1828 & 1832 |
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| Spain grants independence to Mexico |
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| Series of events leading to Texas Revolution |
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| Spain's grants independence to Mexico; US tries and fails to buy Texas; wants good soil for cotton; Stephen Austin is granted huge land |
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| 300 American families move to Texas with Stephen Austin |
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| Over 20,000 Americans (protestant and English speaking); Mexico halts immigration and bans slavery |
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| Stephen Austin goes to Mexico City to ask for independence |
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| Santa Anna wins a the Alamo and Goliad |
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| Sam Houston fight Santa Anna and wins |
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| Texas Republic declared; Sam Houston first president; not recognized by Mexico |
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| Events leading up to declaration of Mexican American War |
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| July 1845 - Taylor crosses the Rio Grande; Nov 1845 - Slidell negotiates; Dec 1845 - Taylor goes to fight; May 1846 Polk declares war |
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| Polk declares War - Mexican American war |
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| Events after declaration of war (Mexican American war) |
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| 1846 - Sloat wins Monterey & SF; 1847 - Taylor wins Buena Vista; 1847- Scott wins Vera Cruz & Mexico City |
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| Calif could be a state if would be an anti-slave state |
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| Why is cotton so important in 1850? |
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| 3/4 of world's cotton grown in South; in 1860 9 million people work on cotton - 4 million slaves; slave rebellions on uprise |
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| drew strength from NY; anti-slave; opposed expansion of slavery in Western Territories; absorbed by Republican Party |
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| proposed by Stephen A. Douglas; a bill to organize territory west of MO & IA; self determination; rights of states |
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| outsiders went to Kansas to push for or against slavery. Conflict broke out. |
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| Name the parties in the election of 1856 |
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| Free Soil Party; Democrats; American; Know-Nothings: Whigs (later many became Repub) |
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| Missouri slave sued govt after his owner died (while he was in a free state); lost b/c Judge Taney deemed that he was property and MO compromise unconstitutional |
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| John Brown led 22 men in attack on HF; gave slaves guns but they wouldn’t fight; John Brown fought guilty of treason and hung |
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| Democrats - proslavery; Republicans - antislavery |
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| Important Democratic leaders in 1860 |
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| North - Stephen A. Douglas; South - John Breckenridge |
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| after Lincoln elected, SC secedes; Followed by Miss, FL, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and TX; Confederacy established 1861; Jefferson Davis - 1st President |
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| fought in Virginia - confederates win decisively; meant war would be long; South strong |
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| took place in West; Grant vs. Johnson; Union wins d/t last minute arrival of help; more casualties than ever before (in any war) |
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| Lee plans to invade North; copy of Lee's battle plans fall into Union hands; McClellan v Lee; Union technically wins; Lee retreats to Virginia; win provides political opp for Lincoln to announce Emancipation Proclamation |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| all slaves in Southern States freed (not in border states); made war about slavery |
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| fought in PA; Union victory; 27% fatality rate for union - 37% for confeds; Led to Gettysburg address |
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| Siege of Vicksburg ends in Union victory; won by Grant; followed by draft riots in North east |
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| Lee surrenders at Appomattox; Union wins the war |
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