Unit 2: Forging of a Nation

"I think it is the right of the United States to stretch its land to the Pacific Ocean."

"I think that slavery should not exist in any lands above the 48 degree latitude, 40 degree longitude line."

"I do not believe that we should purchase the Louisiana Territory from France."

"We should live in alongside the Native American tribes in our states."

You place more importance on racial issues than any other issues. 

The idea that your nation is more important than your region. 

You place your importance on foreign affairs more so than domestic affairs.

The idea that your region is more important than your nation. 

It was to make sure that all of the states were free states.

It was to make sure that slavery was outlawed in the United States. 

It was to balance the slave states and the free states.

It was to spread slavery into all of the new territory acquired by the United States. 

States would vote on whether a state should be slave or free.

States below the 48 degree latitude 40 degree longitude line would be slave states. 

The Supreme Court would decide whether a state was a slave or free state. 

Native Americans would be removed from acquired lands. 

Many people became rich so it allowed slavery to spread in that area. 

The population of California increased so it became a state in 1850.

Not a lot of people decided to move there due to the travel time. 

California lost a lot of residents to Mexico due to its slavery policy. 

Texas wanted to become a slave state after winning its independence from Mexico. 

The acquisition of the Kansas and Nebraska territory led to the compromise. 

The United States gained land from winning the Mexican American War.

It resulted from the United States acquiring land from the Louisiana Territory. 

A law that said that both states would become slave states. 

A law that removed Native Americans to move to the territory after being removed. 

A law that said both of the states could not spread slavery into those territories.

A law that decided slave or free state based on popular sovereignty. 

To resist the oppression from slavery.

To passively resist the evils of slavery. 

To join the North in the Civil War. 

To gain rights for blacks with the 13th Amendment. 

The passage of the 13th Amendment

The Kansas - Nebraska Act

John Brown's Raid

The election of Abraham Lincoln.

The Union troops gained steps toward victory after this battle because it ended General Lee's plans to invade the North. 

The slaves in the United States were freed after this battle. 

The slaves and freemen were able to fight in the war after this battle. 

The Union was able to burn all of the land from Georgia to the Atlantic Ocean. 

13th Amendment

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Compromise of 1850

Emancipation Proclamation

To free all of the slaves in the United States

To find Abraham Lincoln's killer

To protest the Dred Scott decision

To gain rights, including voting rights, for women. 

It led to conflicts over the spread of slavery in those territories that were gained after the Mexican American War.  

It led to conflicts  over whether to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act to capture escaped slaves. 

It led to conflicts over whether slaves would be able to move into those territories after freedom. 

It led to conflicts over whether slaves would be able to fight in wars after freedom. 

It increased the demand for slave labor. 

It allowed many slaves to become free. 

Many slaves were able to get paid for their work. 

It caused the Southerners to leave the Union. 

It allowed many blacks to gain their freedom. 

Slaves were able to get paid after this decision. 

It made the Missouri Compromise a constitutional act. 

It did not limit slavery to slave states.