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The Slave Trade was a route overseas that transported slaves for goods between many countries. This was important because it was a huge problem and it affected many lives of innocent people over the next 200 years.

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The French and Indian War turned the U.S. and Britain's forces against the French. After the War, the U.S. was able to expand past the Appalachian Mountains. This is important because this brought up the thoughts of what to do with the new land.

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The Three-Fifths Compromise was where slaves of a state could be counted towards the state's population. Each slave would count as 3/5 of a person. This was important because it gave the slaves a number or a cost to them. This sparked the slave trades.

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The Northwest Ordinance banned slavery in the western territory. This was important because it freed many slaves and created tensions between the southern area of the U.S. and the government.

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The Cotton Gin was a machine created for the sole purpose of making cotton more efficiently and faster. This is important for the expansion of the U.S. because it caused more slavery. more people wanted more cotton, so they needed more slaves.

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The U.S. bought the Louisiana territory from the French in 1803. This is important because the thought of Manifest Destiny came up, this was questioned as a way to spread slavery.

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The Lewis and Clark Expedition was an expedition created by Thomas Jefferson and was fulfilled by Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery. This was an important event because it showed what land the U.S. just bought and what tribes were in the area that may become problems in the future.

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The Slave Trade Clause made it so that Congress could not ban the transatlantic slave trade for 20 years. This was important for the evolution of the U.S. because it allowed people and slaves to move around the U.S. at the time. It expanded the economy between different countries and continents.

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The Slave Trade, which was a system used by other countries and the U.S. to give slaves for goods was ended in January of 1808. This was important because it freed many slaves from the clutches of other countries. They were being thrown around, but someone caught them and let them go.

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The 1808 Act was an act that said that no new slaves could be imported into the U.S... This was important because it showed a slow to the slavery problem, though it was not over yet, it did show improvement.

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The Slave Insurrection Clause made it so that the executive has the power to suppress all riots or insurrections to maintain law and order. This was very important because around the time that all the slaves were uprising or rioting, the executive couldn't do anything legally. But now he could suppress most of the harmful riots, this made it more difficult for the slaves to get what they wanted.

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1818 - The Land Above the Louisiana Territory

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1818 - The Land Above the Louisiana Territory

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The land above the Louisiana Territory was a compromise with Britain to split up the territory in two. This is important because it became a free state.

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The Spanish Cession was a negotiation with Spain for the territory of Florida. This is important because it was a slave state.

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The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was a huge event between the North and the South of the U.S. The North wanted Missouri as a free state, while the South wanted it as a slave state. This is important because figuring out which states are slave states and which ones aren't was a huge topic that led up the the civil war.

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The Mexican American War was a war to decide who would get the land of Texas and Along the Rio Grande River. This was important because it led to more debate over the Mexican cession and slavery.

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The Mexican Cession was a result of the Mexican American War of 1846. The land the U.S. received was a huge debate for the U.S. government. This was important because the U.S. was split in half with one half being anti-slavery and the other half being for slavery. The U.S. government needed to figure out which side would get the land.

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In the fugitive act, any federal official who did not arrest a freedom seeker or escapee was to pay a fine. This was a huge point in history because it provoked even more people to end slavery.

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was an act where the U.S. government split the northern part of the Louisiana Territory into two states - Kansas and Nebraska. This is important because this caused a lot of fighting and tension between the north and south sides of the U.S. on the topic of slavery.

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Bleeding Kansas had two parts to it - 1st part was where over 700 pro-slavery people attacked the anti-slavery town of Lawrence. 2nd part was where the anti-slavery people invaded the pro-slavery town of Pottawattamie. This is important because it shows how the tensions rose between the two sides.

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When Abraham Lincoln was elected, the south was infuriated. He promised to end slavery, so the south started the war. This was an important event because he fought against the South.