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James Polk

Elected 1844, support western migration wanted to add Oregon and Texas to US

Mexican American war

Ended with US gaining California and New Mexico territories and caused huge debate on slavery in these states

Free soil party

New land should be given to settlers

Wilmot proviso

Attempt to ban slavery in new territories unsuccessful and south threaten succession

Compromise of 1850

California become free state New Mexico and Utah use popular sovereignty stricter fugitive slave laws

Kansas Nebraska act

Northern section of Louisiana purchase divides into Nebraska and Kansas and use popular soverignity

Bleeding Kansas

People moved west to vote on slavery in Kansas and let to conflict and riots

Dred Scott decision

Enslaved man who tried to go back to his state after becoming free and sued for his freedom decided that he was not a citizen and couldn’t sue, increased abolition

Election of 1860

Lincoln won and declared expansion of slavery was over causing south states to secede from the union and form confederation

Civil war

North and south or anti slavery vs pro slavery, south relied on slave labor north relied on industrialization

Battle of Antietam

First union victory giving Lincoln opportunity to issue the emancipation proclamation

Emancipation proclamation

Made war about slavery instead of union and huge disadvantage for south who relied on slave labor

Battle of Gettysburg/ Gettysburg address

Bloodiest battle, Lincoln provides speech saying he will unify the nation and portrayed the struggle of slavery

End of civil war

Lee surrenders, union wins and south joins union leads to more jobs for white women and slaves

Reconstruction

Period after the war when the US tried to reintegrate the south back into the union and help integrate freedmen into society

13 amendment

Outlaw slavery

14 amendment

Equal rights for us born citizens

15 amendment

African American can vote

Ten percent plan

If 10 percent of southerners pledge loyalty and create new democratic constitution they can establish govts

Reconstruction effects

Increase for women’s suffrage sharecropping rise of white supremacy

Compromise of 1877

Election of Rutherford b Hayes saying he would remove troops from south if they elect him, ends construction bc they can’t enforce laws in south anymore, rise in Jim Crow laws