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Kansas-Nebraska Act |
Pro-slavery and Anti-slavery voters fight |
Seneca Falls Convention |
Women meet to discuss Women's Rights |
Temperance |
Against Alcohol |
Texas |
Annexation, leads to Border Dispute |
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
Ends Mexican War |
Compromise of 1850 |
California Enters as a Free State and Fugitive Slave Act is passed |
Abolitionists |
Against Slavery |
Harriet Tubman |
Conductor on the Underground Railroad |
Gold Rush |
Population / economic boom in the West |
Mexican Cession |
Land gained from Mexican War |
Bessemer Steel Process |
Cheap steel for railroad tracks |
Transcontinental Railroad |
Connects markets |
Gadsden Purchase |
Land purchased to build a railroad. Last piece added. |
Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, Abolitionist movement grows |
Manifest Destiny |
Heading West, occupy continent |