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Manifest destiny

the 19th-century American belief that the U.S. had a God-given right and duty to expand its territory across North America, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, spreading democracy and American values, which justified westward expansion, conflicts, and displacement of Native Americans.

Annexation of Texas

The The Republic of Texas was the only state to enter by treaty into the United States and admitted to the Union as the 28th state on December 29, 1845 following mexican american war

Mexican-American War

War over Texas and US boundaries

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

Ended Mexican American War

Popular sovereignty

Popular sovereignty is the principle that a government's power comes from the consent of the people

Compromise of 1850

between slave and free states over territories won from Mexico, admitting California as a free state, creating popular sovereignty for Utah/New Mexico, ending the slave trade (but not slavery) in D.C., establishing a stricter Fugitive Slave Act, and settling Texas's borders for federal assumption of its debt.

Fugitive Slave Act

Made it a crime to help escaped slaves, allowed for renslavement

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Abolitionist book by Harriet Beech Stowe

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Said that Kansas and nebraska’s status as free states would be determined by popular sovereignty

Bleeding Kansas

Skirmishes in Kansas as the result of people moving there in an effort to sway its status to free or slave state

John Brown’s Raid

Dred Scott v. Sanford

Declared black people noncitizens

Republican Party

Formed after the collapse of the Whigs

Election of 1860

Lincoln wins

Abraham Lincoln

President During civil war, started as Illinois representative

Southern Secession

Starts with south carolina, states leave the union to form a separate independent county

Fort Sumter

Fort in SC that Lincoln wouldn’t give up, resulted in first fight of civil war

Anaconda Plan

The Unions original plan to cut off confederacy

Robert E. Lee

Confederate general

Ulysses S. Grant

Union general

Bull Run

first real battle of civil war

Sherman’s March

This campaign, known as Sherman's March to the Sea, was marked by its objective, to cripple the Confederacy's ability to wage war. They destroyed anything and everything important to the war effort, leaving ruins where Georgia's great cities once stood.

Emancipation Proclamation

The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order by President Abraham Lincoln, effective January 1, 1863, during the Civil War, that declared enslaved people in Confederate states to be free, shifting the war's focus to ending slavery, allowing Black men into the Union Army, and paving the way for the 13th Amendment, though full national abolition came with the war's en