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MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE AND COLONIZATION LAWS
August 21, 1821 : August 18, 1824
These events were initiated by the dictator of Mexico, General Antonio Lopez, due to increasing tension and instability between Mexico and Spain. His first major action was to secede from the Spanish empire in the south and form a new country, Mexico. He then saw that Mexico's economy was starting to fail and needed more business options. This lead to the immigration laws that prompted the Mexican-American War.
This event is so important because it lead to the Mexican-American war. If Mexico had not left Spain, they would not have required assistance from Americans to boost the economy and the immigration issues would never have arisen. Since Mexico did allow immigration, they prompted the Mexican-American war which lead to the annexation of Texas and the rising debate of slavery in the US.
This event took place in the mid 1840s. Texas had recently seceded from Mexico and was a free nation. However, they wanted to be annexed into the union as a slave state. This lead to issues of sectional power in congress and caused three presidents to put off the annexation. Finally, Texas was annexed but it lead to the same issues that had been brought up by the presidents had brought up before.
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This is so important because it restarted the issue of slavery in the US. After the Missouri Compromise, the issue of slavery faded away. It didn't disappear but it drifted away from the center of all attention. However, with the annexation of Texas, slavery was brought up again across the nation because of the unbalanced power the South would have over the North in the senate.
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KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT
May 30, 1854
This event occurred in 1854 and was centered around where slavery can emigrate to in the US. This act overturned the Missouri compromise but establishing that the territories of Kansas and Nebraska had the right to vote on whether they should be slave or free. No longer where they bound by the rules saying they could only be free.
This event is so important because it was classified as a major win for the south. The south now had a chance to get slavery to spread and not stay so restricted. This prompted another major turning point, this one demonstrating how far people are will I get to go to get their ideals to spread.
This event is based around who will control the new state Kansas. It was caused by thousands of immigrants rushing into Kansas to sway the votes in their favor. Hundreds of people came from the north in attempt to stop the expansion of slavery, likewise, hundreds came the south, but they were focused on expanding slavery.
This was so important because it demonstrated the lengths at which people were going to go to protect or save slavery. There were many major, almost radicalistic, people from both the north and south that made it their job to see that slavery did or didn't expand. Kansas sort of set the stage for the level of violence people were willing to accept for that they believed in.
This event is important because of what decisions were made concerning slavery in the north. The case was that Dred Scott should be a free man because his master brought him across free states and into free territories for multiple years. The Supreme Court, after hearing the case, made 2 major decisions. The first stated that because Dred Scott was only 3/5 of a man, he could not go to court. Second, they said he was still a slave in free land so they implied all land is slave land.
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This event is important because it basically said that popular sovereignty was illegal. They also implied that congress did not have the power to abolish slavery. If congress could not abolish slavery, a group of lowly residents could not either. This led to increasing sectionalism amongst the northern and southern population.
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John Brown was a rising abolitionist who believed it was his divine task from God to destroy slavery. He was most well known for two major crusades against slavery. First, in Kansas, he killed 5 white settlers, then he went and raided the US Arsenal in Harpersferry in hopes of starting a slave rebellion.
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This event is so important because it also showed how far people were willing to go for their beliefs. John Brown brought things up a level and showed that religion is also playing a role in this fight. He also discouraged future slave revolts because, being the first, he got crushed so quickly slaves didn't want to get killed for nothing.
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This event occurred in 1860 when Abraham Lincoln ran for presidency. The south was already displeased with Lincoln because of his morals about slavery. However, he won presidency without a single southern electoral vote.
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This is so important because this event clearly shows that the south is losing power in their voting rights. They don't need to have any say in the electoral college and they still lose the vote. This was the snapping point for the southern states and this was the last straw until they left.
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This was the institution that the entire issue of slavery arose from. If slavery had never existed in the US, there would be no war over slavery.
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