Important Events, Documents, Treaties, etc. III

Declared women's rights

Settlement in West; pioneers rushing across Great Plains in search of a better life.

Slavery permitted in part of Louisiana Territory south of 36°30' line. Banned south of this line.

• 1. California entered the Union as a free state.
• 2. Rest of Mexican Cession divided into territories of New Mexico & Utah. Voters would decide slavery question each territory.
• 3. Slave trade ended in Washington D.C.
• 4. Strict new fugitve slave law passed.

Demanded all citizens to help catch runaway slaves.

Mexico sold to U.S. a strip of land in present-day Arizona and New Mexico.

Divided Nebraska Territroy in two: Kansas & Nebraska. Slavery decided by voting.

Slavery made legal in all territories.

led to southern secession in 1861.

Union (North) vs. COnfederacy (South)aka War of Northern Aggression; War of Secession; War to Preserve the Union; War of Recent Unpleasantness; Jefferson Davis (Pres. of Confed.); Grant (Norhtern) & Lee (Southern)

Freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion; changed the character of the war to include ending slavery as well as preserving the Union.

Assassinated by John W. Booth at Ford Theater; Radical Republicans gained power; military reconstruction followed.

Banned slavery throughout the nation

Gave citizenship to all people born in the U.S.

Divided South into 5 military districts

First impeachment of a president; Johnson had challenged Congressional law.

Forbade any state from denying African-American males the right to vote.

Troops removed from South (Pres. Hayes)