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Election of Abraham Lincoln (1860)- he was elected

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Mexican-American War(1846-1848 - marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil.

MIssouri Compromise (1820)

Texas Revolution(1836-1845)-rebellion of colonists from the United States and Tejanos against the centralist government of Mexico in the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas.

Compromise of 1850(1850) called for the admission of California as a "free state," provided for a territorial government for Utah and New Mexico

Kansas-Nebraska Act(1854)-repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty

13th Amendment (1865) abolished slavery and involuntary servitude

Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842) resolved several border issues between the United States and the British North American colonies

John Brown's Raid (1859) - a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

Formation of the Confederate States of America (1861)-unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865.

Dred Scott Decision(1857)-upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional.

Bleeding Kansas(1854-1856) - Violence broke out immediately between these opposing factions and continued until 1861 when Kansas entered the Union as a free state on January 29.

Emancipation Proclamation (1863)- made all slaves free

Ostend Manifesto (1854)- advocated U.S. seizure of Cuba from Spain

American Civil War (1861-1865)-war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy

Admit missouri as a slave state and Maine state, north was slave free and south had a choice,

Gadsden Purchase (1853) - created the Utah Territory and the New Mexico Territory

Fugitive Slave Act (1850) required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state

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Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852) - a book to help people understand the pain of enslaved mothers

Buchanan's Presidency (1857-1861) - Buchanans term as president

Underground Railroad (c. 1830s-1860s) - network of people, both whites and free Blacks, who worked together to help runaways from slaveholding states travel to states in the North and to the country of Canada, where slavery was illegal.

Confiscation Acts (1861-1862)-laws passed by the United States Congress during the Civil War with the intention of freeing the slaves

Fort Sumter (1861) - marked the official beginning of the American Civil War

Homestead Act (1862) - provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land

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