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Manifest Destiny

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Westward expansion from sea to sea. God given right to possess a continent

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Oregon Trail

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Path used primarily for moving westward

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Nativists

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Prioritized native-born rights and did not like immigrants

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Republicans

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New party. Did not want to SPREAD slavery. Very mixed bag

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Free-soil party

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Believed free-laborers in the west. Either to build an all white utopia or to abolish slavery.

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Piece of literature showing the horrors of slavery in the form of a fictional story book. Made by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Annexation of Texas

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2 Presidents stopped it to avoid a war with Mexico. When it finally happened, it came with a lot of land and the topic of slavery and abolition kept popping up.

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Mexican-American War

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American troops settled on the Rio Grande looking to pick a fight. The mexicans shot at them and the Americans declared war. In the end the Americans won and gained a lot of land.

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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Established the Rio Grande as the Southern border of texas.
Mexican Cecsion: cedes CA + NM to the US for $15M

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Wilmot Proviso

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-proposed that the land gained from Mexico should be free

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Ostend Manifesto

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Polk offers $100M for cuba from spain. Sends Pierce over to negotiate. Plan gets leaked and they abandon it

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Caning of Summer

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Summer gets beat tf up by Brooks bc he blamed Bleeding Kansas on Butler

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Compromise of 1850

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  • NM and UT would remain popular sovereignty
  • California free state
    -Fugitive slave law
    -Slave trade banned in D.C.
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Fugitive Slave Act

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Slaved are returned to their masters, even in free states

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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  • Stephen douglass said that it would be split into 2, and would be popular sovereignty
    -essentially overturned the compromise of 1820
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Bleeding Kansas

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Fights broke out between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery people in Kansas.

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Dred Scott v. Sandford

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-tried to sue his master
-DENIED bc basically said he was property and that they cannot take away property and is not a citizen
-also said compromise of 1820 was unconstitutional

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John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferrt

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Believed he was told by god to stop slavery. He used violence. Stole weapons and tried to give them to slaves to start an armed revolution. He was hung.

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Election of 1860

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Lincoln wins without a single southern states. The southern states get scared.

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Secession

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Southern States begin to leave (SC was the first) the union and form the Confederate States of America.

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Civil War

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North wins

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Emancipation Proclamation

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Essentially frees slaves in the confederacy. Many of these free people go to the union and even fight for the union.

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Gettysburg Address

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-United nation
-Portrayed the struggle against slavery as the fulfillment of America’s democratic ideals

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13th Amendment

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Abolished Slavery

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14th Amendment

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Gave former slaves citizenship

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15th Amendment

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Gave black men the right to vote

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James Polk

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President. started the Mexican-American war. Democrat. Loved Manifest Destiny.

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Zachary Taylor

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General of the troop that settled at the Rio Grande

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Stephen A. Douglass

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proposed the Kansas Nebraska act

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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John Brown

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Abolitionist who fought with violence

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Abraham Lincoln

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Republican president during the civil war. His views on slavery change over time

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Jefferson Davis

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President of the CSA

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Union General

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Robert Lee

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Confederate General

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William Sherman

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Union General (march to the sea)

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Andrew Johnson

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Vice president. Southern. Pretty racist. Took over after Lincoln died. Vetoed bills around Civil Rights.

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Fredrick Douglass

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Abolitionist speaker

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Sojourner Truth

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Abolitionist. Former slave. Activist for Civil rights, women’s suffrage, and temperance.

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Harriet Tubman

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Key person in assisting others along the underground railway.

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John Wilkes Booth

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Assassinated Lincoln

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Women’s suffrage activist who was enraged by the 15th amendment. Co-creator of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association

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