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| Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1803) |
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| President thomas jefferson doubled the size of the US by purchasing the Louisiana Territory from France for 15 million dollars.The price worked out to about 3 cents an acre for over 500million acres of land. |
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| The missouri compromise provided that, except for Missouri itself, slavery would be banned in territories contained within the area of the Louisiana Purchase above 36 30 north latitude. Missouri would be admitted to the union as a slave state. |
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| South Carolin exposition and protest 1828 |
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South carolina legislature in 1828 announced its intention to nullify the federal tariff of 1828.
Calhoun argued that a protective tariff was unconstitutional. |
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| Hayne- Webster Debate 1830 |
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series of senate debates about the nature of the union between robert hayne of south carolina and daniwel webster of Massachusetts.
Hayne took the position that the constitution was a compact between sovereign states, while webster asserted tht the union was a union of people, not of the states. |
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| signd by president andrew jackson gave the president the power to negotiate treaties with american indian tribes east of the mississippi to white settlement. |
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| Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions |
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Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and others organized the first womens rights convention in the united states. it was held in senneca falls, New york.
through this document demmanded their right to vote (women) |
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| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848 |
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| treaty ended the Mexican-Americn wr. mexico gave over 500,000 square miles of land to the US in exhange for 15million DOLLAS what is california nevada and utah as well as parts of arizona, colorado, new mexico and wyoming. it also establishes rio grande as th border. |
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Henry Clay prsented it with help of stephen Douglas in order to reconcile several issues related to new states and slavery.
clifornia would be admitted as a free state and other states would be free to take a position on whn they applied for statehood. |
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This required citizens including thos within fre states to assist in returning escaped slavs to their masters , and denied jury trials to fugitive slaves.
resulted of the underground railroad. |
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| introduced by stphen douglas divided the nebraska territory into two parts: Kansas and Nebraska. |
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| Abraham Lincoln's Cooper Union Address 1859 |
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In this speech, Abraham defended his Republican Party's view of slavery- that congress had the power under Article 1 to control slavery in new territories as identical to the view of the majority of the signers of the constitution.
he discussed federalism and acknowledged that the national gov did not havethe power to free the slaves in the states in existing. |
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