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17 de abr. de 2024 · Focus on Westward Expansion. In US history, the period of settlement 1800–50 when Americans pushed the frontier westwards in search of land and resources, economic opportunities, a better life, and, for some, religious freedom.
24 de abr. de 2024 · On December 20, 1860, a special convention called in South Carolina unanimously passed an ordinance of secession. Mississippi , Florida , Alabama , Georgia , and Louisiana followed in January, and Texas voted to secede on February 1, 1861—still more than a month before Lincoln was actually inaugurated.
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17 de abr. de 2024 · "Further Resources" section for each entry provides a gateway to additional research opportunities. Provides in-depth descriptions of important events, including trends, movements, conflicts, and diplomatic efforts that shaped America in the first half of the nineteenth century.
25 de abr. de 2024 · In 1820, a bitter debate over the federal government’s right to restrict slavery over Missouri’s application for statehood ended in a compromise: Missouri was admitted to...
17 de abr. de 2024 · Manifest Destiny, in U.S. history, the supposed inevitability of the continued territorial expansion of the boundaries of the United States westward to the Pacific and beyond. Before the American Civil War (1861–65), the idea of Manifest Destiny was used to validate continental acquisitions in the Oregon Country, Texas, New Mexico ...
15 de abr. de 2024 · Dred Scott decision, legal case (1857) in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (7–2) that a slave who had resided in a free state and territory was not thereby entitled to his freedom, that African Americans were not and could never be U.S. citizens, and that the Missouri Compromise (1820) was unconstitutional.
Hace 6 días · September 2014. In June 2014, Humanities Texas held institutes in San Antonio and Denton examining significant events and themes of the Civil War era. The "America in the 1860s" institutes covered topics central to the state's eighth-grade social studies curriculum.
