1820-1877

Missouri Compromise 1820 Indian Removal Act 1830 Nat Turner’s Rebellion 1831 Trail of Tears 1831 Mexican American War 1846-1848 Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo 1848 Compromise of 1850 Kansas Nebraska Act 1854 Civil War 1861-1865 Assassination of Lincoln 1865

**__Civil War__**
[] [] Influences...
 * 1) Economic Differences between south and north
 * 2) States rights
 * 3) Slavery vs. Non-Slavery
 * 4) Abolition movements
 * 5) the election of Abe Lincoln

The civil war, was the war to preserve the union. It is the only civil war in American history and it is also the bloodiest war we have ever been in. This is probably the most important war in the history of the US and it shaped America greatly. It settled the dispute on slavery, states rights, and linked the country economically.

__**Missouri Compromise**__
[] [] Influences…


 * 1) Western expansion
 * 2) Admission of Maine and Missouri
 * 3) Differences between pro-slavery and anti-slavery states
 * 4) Louisiana Purchase
 * 5) Increase in territorial size

The Missouri Compromise was important because it admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It also kept the balance between slave states and free states and set a rule as to no slave states above the 36/30 latitude line in the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase.

**__Compromise of 1850__**
[] Influences…


 * 1) The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
 * 2) Wilmot Proviso
 * 3) California gold rush
 * 4) President Taylor dies
 * 5) Increased sectional tension

The Compromise of 1850 was a new compromise after the Missouri Compromise to try and minimize sectional tension. The main points of the compromise were California admitted as a free state and popular sovereignty to be allowed in New Mexico and Utah.

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 * __Kansas Nebraska Act __**



Influenced… By 1854 the organization of the vast Platte and Kansas river countries W of Iowa and Missouri was overdue. The debate over slavery was all over the new territories. Some sort of order had to be set. The Kansas-Nebraska Act, made on May 30, 1854, by the U.S. Congress established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.
 * 1) Slavery
 * 2) Territory
 * 3) Lack of Organization
 * 4) Transcontinental railroad
 * 5) Western Expansion

**__Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo__**
[] [|http://www.historyguy.com/Mexican-American_War.html#.T1O3cvWUWTU] influences...
 * 1) The Mexican-American war
 * 2) Manifest Destiny
 * 3) The Alamo
 * 4) Texas' fight for independence/Annexation of Texas
 * 5) Salutary neglect by Mexican government to Texans

The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was very important because it increased the size of America greatly and more importantly added California, and cleared up the boundary of Texas. The treaty also ended a war with Mexico that didn't really have to be fought in the first place. The only real reason was for the acquisition of land.

[] Influences… 1. Andrew Jackson 2. Jealousy from whites 3. Some tribes threatened the U.S with war 4. Cherokees in court 5. Fear of Indians <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The Indian Removal Act was led up to by much friction between Indians and civilians. For years there has been much fighting with the Indians and Andrew Jackson was not going to let the Indians have any power. He approved the Indian Removal Act which allows the President to negotiate treaties to remove tribes. This resulted in the Trail of Tears
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Indian Removal Act __**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">This war was important to US history because it resulted in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The terms of the treaty were as follows: <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">-Mexico declared the Rio Grande River as the southern boundary of Texas <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">-Mexico gave the United States the Mexican Cession which granted California and New Mexico to the US for $15 million. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">It also resulted in the Wilmot Proviso. Although never passed, it played a key role in the development of the US. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">-An amendment to a bill that would forbid slavery in any new territories acquired from Mexico <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">The war became a cause of the Civil War by renewing the conflict over the spread of slavery into the new territories
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Mexican-American War __**

**__Assassination of Lincoln__**
[] Causes:
 * 1) Union winning the Civil War
 * 2) Possible consequences towards the south after the war
 * 3) Southern hatred towards the north
 * 4) Plan to overthrow Union government
 * 5) Angry as to how war was fought

The assassination of Abraham Lincoln was important because it killed one of our best Presidents and changed how Reconstruction happened. John Wilkes Booth ran into Fords Theater and shot the President in the back of the head, and than fled. He was killed weeks later.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">http://mapoftheunitedstates.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/trail-of-tears-map/ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">4,000 Cherokees died on the trail of tears. This event was important to the history of the United States because Jackson violated a court order from the US Supreme Court ordering him to protect the Cherokee from state militias. Instead, Jackson used federal law enforcement officials to remove the Cherokee.
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Trail of Tears __**

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 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Nat Turner’s Rebellion (1831) __**



<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Caused by: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">1. Nat Turner’s dreams <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">2. Signs from the Sun <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">3. Mistreatment of Slaves <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">4. Education of Slaves <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">5. Switching of masters <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Nat Turner’s Rebellion was inevitable. Slaves had become more educated and were able to plan a rebellion. Nat Turner had seen many signs telling him to revolt. Him and 4 slaves killed their master and went door to door killing white people and getting more slaves to join in. They killed over 55 people before troops arrived. Over 80 people were executed, including Nat Turner.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The rebellion was important because the fear of similar slave revolts ended antislavery movements in the south

**__Abraham Lincoln__**
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- Lincoln was one of our most important Presidents ever. He enacted the Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves in southern states. He also was President during the Civil War and helped preserve the Union. He was killed five days before the war ended.

**__Andrew Jackson__**
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- Jackson was important because when he was in power, the focus on the common man was greatly increased. All white men could vote, and he gave more power to the states while reducing the power of the Federal Government. He also destroyed the National Bank of the US and saved America from civil war by using the Force bill and signing the Compromise tariff of 1832. Jackson was also a very important General in the American Army.

**__Henry Clay__**
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- "The Great Pacificator" was the perfect nickname for Henry Clay. He came up with the Missouri Compromise, The Compromise of 1850, The American System, and The Whig party. Clay was Speaker of the House for many terms, and was also the Secretary of State for John Quincy Adams. Although he ran for President many times, he was never elected because he did not appeal to Democrats.

[] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Ulysses S. Grant was the symbol of Union victory during the Civil War, and then the logical candidate for President in 1868. He started out in command of a very sorry regiment and whipped them into shape. Then he worked his way up to Major General against the South. He finally captured Lee and won for the North. After the victory he became president but didn’t get much done. He treated the presidency militarily some historians say.
 * __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Ulysses S. Grant __**


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Frederick Douglass __**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">http://www.onthisdeity.com/20th-february-1895-%E2%80%93-the-death-of-frederick-douglass/



<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">Douglass was a black abolitionist and former slave. He strongly advocated political and direct action to end slavery and racial prejudice.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">Douglass was a key figure in this time period. In 1847, he started the antislavery journal, The North Star. The publication of this journal proved that African Americans are not illiterate and are not useless beings.

=**__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Robert E. Lee __**= <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Robert E. Lee, to this day, is considered one of the best generals of all time. He did not have much support compared to the north but still managed to hold on for three years. He was the face of the south during this time period. Ulysses S. Grant eventually captured Lee and won the war. Without Lee the south wouldn’t have stood a chance

__**John C. Calhoun**__
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- John C. Calhoun was important because he was the secretary of war under Monroe, and served as Vice President of John Quincy Adams and Jackson. Calhoun was a Warhawk when he was in congress, and he was also a very adamant supporter of the American System. John C. Calhoun resigned from being the Vice President of Jackson, because the Tariff of 1828. The tariff upset many southerners and Calhoun, from South Carolina, considered nullification and seceding from the Union

**__Harriet Tubman__**
[] -Harriet Tubman was a very important because she helped free lots of slaves. She started the Underground Railroad which was a way of freeing slaves and taking them up to the north. She even risked her own life by going back to the south multiple times to free other slaves. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">Smith founded the Mormon religion in 1830, also known as the Church of Latter Day Saints. He led the Mormons from New York, then Ohio, then Missouri, and lastly to Illinois, where Smith was murdered. To escape religious prosecution, Brigham Young led Mormons towards the west. There, he took Smith’s place and founded the New Zion on the Great Salt Lake in present day Utah.
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Joseph Smith __**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DanielWebster.jpg <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">Webster was one of the most famous orators and influential Whig party leaders of the Second Party System. With his strong nationalistic views, Webster, as the secretary of state, negotiated the Webster-Ashburn treaty. This treaty established the definitive border between the United States and Canada.
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Daniel Webster __**

KW: Jackson, Clay, Calhoun, Civil War, Guadalupe Hidalgo. GT: Lincoln, Tubman, Assassination of Lincoln, Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850. PW: Grant, Lee, Indian Removal Act, Nat Turner's <span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; top: -25px; width: 1px;">[] BD: Webster, Smith, Douglas, Trail of Tears, Mexican-American War