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1795 treaty between the US and Britain. It accepted Brtains's right to stop neutral ships in return it allowed Americans to submit claims for illegal seizures and required the British to remove their troops and Indian agents from NW territory.

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1803 purchase of French Territory west of The Mississippi River that stretched from The Gulf of Mexico to Canada. It nearly doubled the size of the US and opened the way for future American expansion west. The purchase required President Jefferson to exercise powers not explicitly granted to him by the constitution.

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This was a war fought between Great Britain and The United States. It was fought to deal with issues revolving around trade and American Land expansion. The Native Americans also got involved due to land issues causing everyone to expand west. This ended with The Treaty of Ghent.

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In 1820 the missouri compromise took place. From the compromise it was decided that any states north of Missouri were free states and any states south of Missouri were still slave states. This would later create a problem due to California being so big and not fitting into the category of either a north or south state.

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On May 28, 1830, this act was signed by Andrew Jackson. It allowed him to push Indians out of their land and move west of the Mississippi river so there could be more white settlement. This was very unconstitutional leading to lots of controversy.

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1845 Texas was annexed. It was the 28th state to become independent. It was very hard to get texas annexed due to issues with Mexico. One of Mexico's generals was held captive during the war and was forced into signing a treaty to free Texas. This was a very big step for both the US and Texas.

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This war was fought from Apr 25, 1846 – Feb 2, 1848. This war was fought over the now day state Texas. The United States won the war winning over Texas. This was a very victorious win for the US but tragic for Mexico. They saw economic loss, population decline, and land loss.

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It admitted California as a free state, left Utah and New Mexico to decide for themselves whether to be a slave state or a free state, defined a new Texas-New Mexico boundary, and made it easier for slave owners to recover runways under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. A series of bills were passed to determined whether states were free states or slave states.

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The Fugitive Slave Act or Fugitive Slave Law was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern interests in slavery and Northern Free-Soilers. This set Federal Courts to determine the status of runway slaves.

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1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to choose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty. This act was introduced by Stephen Douglas who would later run against Abraham Lincoln.

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A declaration (1854) issued from Ostend, Belgium, by the U.S. ministers to England, France, and Spain, stating that the U.S. would be justified in seizing Cuba if Spain did not sell it to the U.S.

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A black slave, had lived with his master for 5 years in Illinois and Wisconsin Territory. Backed by interested abolitionists, he sued for freedom on the basis of his long residence on free soil. The ruling on the case was that He was a black slave and not a citizen, so he had no rights. A Missouri slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his four year stay in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory made free land by the Missouri Compromise had made him a free man. The U.S, Supreme Court decided he couldn't sue in federal court because he was property, not a citizen.

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This occurred in 1856. The Beating of Charles Sumner, or the Brooks–Sumner Affair took place in the United States Senate chamber, when Representative Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery Democrat from South Carolina, used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist Republican from Massachusetts.

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Democratic Candidate Stephen A. Douglas was the nominee and lost to Republican Candidate Abraham Lincoln, whose victory prompted the secession of 11 Southern states and the formation of the Confederate States of America.
The Election of 1860 demonstrated the divisions within the United States just before the Civil War. The Constitutional Union Party was also new; 1860 was the first and only time the party ran a candidate for president. The results of the 1860 election pushed the nation into war.

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The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 was one of the reasons the civil war happened. He worked really hard and rose to where he was. He was the first member of the republican party to be elected for president which really changed politics in America. He decided he didn't want a split in the country it would be either one way or the other which led to the Civil War.