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1783 - America has won the revolutionary war

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1783 - America has won the revolutionary war

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The American Revolution was fought to gain complete freedom from Great Britain. Not all of the colonists agreed on the way it should be done. The American Revolution was fought with British colonists, who were now settlers in the 13 colonies, these people were not yet free from Great Britain, and the British government. This soon leads to the US winning the war and Britain leaving the Territory to focus on Europe. We then decide to buy it and eventually buy slaves to work on the new land. We wanted to make the very best out of this land.

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1783 - Great Britain leaves the US to focus on Europe

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1783 - Great Britain leaves the US to focus on Europe

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The defeat of the American colonies was ensured with the end of the American War of Independence. When the Treaty of Paris was signed on September 3, 1783, England acknowledged the existence of the United States of America and their separation from Britain. This eventually, leads to the Louisiana Purchase. Without this purchase, slavery wouldn't have been a debate or even a problem, in which Slavery was the reason the Civil War occurred.

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The constitution created a law in which stated that the Executive has the power to suppress all riots or insurrections to keep law and order. This meant depending on who the president was the slaves could have more power protesting and standing up for themselves. Because of this there was much disagreement and debating. This lead to the Civil War because most presidents were trying to stop slavery although they would not do much to stop their protesting.

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The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 was a law that gave power to the Congress and the right to divide the Northwest Territory into three to five smaller territories and created a way to govern them. As soon as a territory had 60,000 people, it could apply to Congress to become enrolled to the Union. Which created more states. That were not declaired as free or slave states. This law also banned slavery in the Northwest Territory. This resulted in arguing between the North and the South, turning into more problems that built the Civil War.

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In 1794, cotton made history. A man named Eli Whitney not only created the cotton gin, but also had invented a machine for a cash crop. The process of removing cotton took much time and effort. Cotton was picked off of the stem, the seeds are very sticky. Back then, Slaves were purchased to do this job, although it still wasn't efficient. This machine called the cotton gin solved that problem. Cotton goes on a belt that removes all of the seeds from the cotton by a turn of lever. This made the demand for slaves sky rocket. Everyone wanted someone to be able to pick and turn the cotton gin for them, just because it was a easy job they didn't have to do themselves. This created more arguing and tension between the North and the South. The North did not want anymore slaves in the US, but this invention made the total population of enslaved people in the south up to 4 million! This was extremely aggravating to the North.

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1801 - Thomas Jefferson is elected president

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1801 - Thomas Jefferson is elected president

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In 1801, Thomas Jefferson was elected the 3rd president of the USA. The Louisiana Purchase wouldn't have been negotiated to us, without him. The purchase lead to the Lewis and Clark expedition which eventually lead to much Slavery. All of this adds up to the Civil War, and began when he was elected.

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1803 - The Louisiana Purchase was negotiated

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1803 - The Louisiana Purchase was negotiated

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In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson wanted New Orleans as a main port therefore he bought it. This was the main reason he purchased the Louisiana Territory. When Great Britain decided to leave all of the US to focus on Europe, the territory also came along with the Port. As a result, this purchase doubled the size of the land we had.  This set the stage for expansion to the Pacific Ocean. With all of the un decliared states this lead to extreme tension between the North and South over slavery that eventually led to the Civil War.

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1804 - Lewis And Clark set off to start what would be an 8,000 mile expedition in under 2 and a half years

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1804 - Lewis And Clark set off to start what would be an 8,000 mile expedition in under 2 and a half years

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In 1804, Lewis and Clark set off on an expedition in St. Charles, Missouri that would revolutionize us forever. The Ultimate goal was to explore the land what was now ours and the Pacific Northwest. The most immediate impactual effect was the rise in the northern plains fur trade between 1806 and 1812. With more people wanting to move West, the debate of slavery that eventually lead to the Civil War shooted up.

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During Lewis and Clark's journey, they came across the Shoshone, a Native tribe in which they met Sacagawea, Sacagawea helped the Corps of Discovery communicate, she did this translating along with her husband. As the Corps traveled eastward in 1806, returning to St. Louis, they stopped at the Mandan and Hidatsa villages. Without Sacagawea, Lewis and Clark couldn't have made relationships between any of the tribes, which was one of the many goals they had on their trip that President Jefferson assigned to them. Not only did she help translate, but she also taught them all about the environment and terrain throughout the Journey. Without her, the expedition may not have succeeded. The land we owned may have never been able to be a place to extend west when Manifest Destiny showed up. Slavery wouldn't have grown to the level it was, and land west later became the land the Civil War was fought on.

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The 1808 Act involved heavy penalties on international traders. This drove trade underground, and ships caught illegally trading were often brought into the United States and its passengers sold into slavery. This created tension between the North and South. The North believed it was not right to bring these passengers to work for people on our land, while on the other hand the South strongly supported it. Due to not being able to ban the Trans Atlantic slave trade until 1807, the total enslaved population in the South was at its highest with 4 million. The whole population itself was around 18,000,000 million then. This was very impactful and eventually lead up to the civil war.

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To keep the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 allowing Missouri as a slave state but also making Maine as a free state. This patched the problem temporarily and created more Tension between the North and South, because the Missouri Compromise line is not in the middle of the US. This means that one of 2 sides will have more states or more land in it, bringing up debates and arguments on it.

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In 1845, the term manifest destiny had spread throughout different regions of the united states, classes, and political persuasions. When people began rushing west for new opportunities and lives, the tension began rising. Slavery was expanding rapidly and causing problems for every individual who settled to be free

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To the United States, this massive land grab was significant because the question of extending slavery into newly acquired territories had become the leading national political issue. Event after another, the North and the South have been getting more aggressive towards each other, both fighting for what they believe

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This compromise added California to the United States as a free state but allowed certain newly acquired territories to decide on slavery or freedom for themselves by letting their people vote. Part of the Compromise also added the Fugitive Slave Act, which was highly unpopular in the North. This law required people to return runaway slaves to their owners under penalty of law. This compromise overturned the Missouri Compromise and left the overall issue of slavery unsettled.

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty. It also produced a violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas,” as proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote. This created uproar between the North and the South eventually leading to the Civil War.

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The sacking of Lawrence was a part of the Bleeding Kansas events happened on May 21, 1856, when pro-slavery settlers, led by Sheriff Samuel J. Jones, attacked and ransacked Lawrence, Kansas, a town which had been founded by anti-slavery settlers from Massachusetts who were hoping to make Kansas a free state because of the popular souvinerity laws. Soon, The debate of whether Kansas would be free or a slave state eventually lead to bleeding kansas.

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In 1859, abolitionist John Brown led himself and 21 other men downtown to Harpers Ferry in West Virginia. They planed was to take over the town's federal armory. The raid failed, but six years later, Brown's dream was realized and slavery became illegal. At the time, this was an act of anger on the south, ultimately attacking them in retaliation for supporting slavery.

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Bleeding Kansas was a time period of repeated outbreaks of violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery activist's following the creation of the new territory of Kansas from popular voting in 1854. In all at least 55 people were killed between 1855 and 1859. The fighting between the North and South was in anger of the sacking of Lawrence and soon to come raid lead by John Brown.

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Lincoln ran with the goal to stop the expansion of slavery and help have all men created equal. As soon as he was elected there was outbreaks of fighting and arguments because many of the southerners were worried about losing their slaves. This would lead to the civil war and eventually his own assassination.

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The Gadsden Purchase territory is about a 30,000 square-mile area of where now is southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. The United States came about this land after purchasing it from Mexico. After the united states purchased the land they still had the same problem to decide with all of their land. Whether it would be free or slave territory.