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Texas became a part of the US which allowed for major territorial expansion
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Gave the US even more territory pushing settlers out west and furthering debate on slavery areas
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The conflict between the Mexicans and Americans over territory in the southwestern part of America. gaining many future states as well as driving political debates of slavery in the region.
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Ended the Mexican American war and gave the US major territories as well as giving the Mexican Government 15 million dollars as settlement. The end of the war caused major debates in politics like the debate on slavery and citizenship in the area.
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Lead the Way for Women's rights from Elizabeth Cady Staunton
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Sparked major westward expansion with little to no success leaving many settled in the west.
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Used the term popular sovereignty to determine the legality of slavery in the west after the mexican american war with significant short term reduced sectionalism, but deepened sections long term.
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Harriet Breacher stowe wrote a piece of literature that affected the US into believing more and more that slavery was bad.
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The kansas Nebraska act caused the Bleeding Kansas as the act separated the two states into free and popular sovereignty and the clash left Kansas in ruins.
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Dred Scott tried to sue for freedom but supreme court ruled that property could not sue.
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Raid upon an armory that pushed the revolt of slavery closer to the civil war.
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The election of Lincoln caused many of the southern states to start to move toward secession as he was an advocate for abolition.
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The start of the Civil War was largely due to the Secession of the southern states, but also the conflict of Fort Sumter when a Union supply ship was fired upon causing the civil war to start.
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The first major conflict of the Civil War where the Union were stopped and realized that the conflict was not going to be quick as they had hoped it to be.
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Yay. Boring. The Civil war was a conflict majorly based around the debate on slavery as well as the deep sectiontionals that the US was under.
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Federal act that allowed for the funding of colleges and land grants for agriculture education.
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Bloodiest day of the Civil war in which the Union victory stopped the southerners from entering the US
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160 acres for free after 5 years to persuade the northerners to go west.
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Turning point battles in the north pushing the southerners farther south leading to the end of the war.
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Lincolns decree that all of the Slaves were free in the south which shifted the focus of the war to slavery,
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The March to the Sea started to help the Union come closer to Victory, paired with the relection of Lincoln the union was one step closer to winning.
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End of the War.
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Southern laws that restricted African Americans from the recent 13th amendment. This helped shape groups like the KKK as well as measures taken to oppose these laws.
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A northern attempt to help the reconstruction in the south by providing for recently enslaved and poor individuals. Failed but helped see the efforts of reconstruction.
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Shifting Reconstruction to a less put together president, Johnson. This weakened the reconstruction period
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13th Amendment freeing everyone in the US regardless of color. Mainly for enslaved individuals.
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This was the time after the civil war in which the federal government attempted to "reconstruct" the south and although not working the time period helped to reshape America.
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The 14th amendment stated that everyone that was born or naturalized in the US was to be a citizen and have the protections of a citizen, which had much disgust in the south.
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The Enforcement Acts helped to the effort to get rid of the groups like the KKK which lifted Habeas Corpus and gave the government the right to apprehend people.
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15th Amendment gave everyone in the US the right to vote regardless on race, sparked conflict in the South.
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The Panic of 1873 was not just a US depression but also a worldwide depression which was caused by the failure of banks and the economy.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1875 gave equal rights to public infrustruce like transportation which led to the end of the reconstruction era as the act was a failure especially in the south.
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Ended reconstruction as the compromise lifted stationed troops from the south in an attempt to preserve the peace.