A law passed in 1820 that admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, and prohibited slavery north of the 36°30' parallel in the Louisiana Territory.
US History Terms - Semester 2

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Missouri Compromise
Louisiana Purchase
Compromise of 1850
Adams-Onis Treaty
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The seventh president of the United States, who served from 1829 to 1837 and was known for his controversial policies, including the Indian Removal Act and the spoils system.
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Jackson
James Monroe
Thomas Jefferson
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The forced relocation of approximately 100,000 Native Americans from their ancestral homelands in the southeastern United States to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) in the 1830s, resulting in the deaths of thousands.
Trail of Tears
Push/Pull immigration
Manifest Destiny
Reconstruction Acts
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A conflict fought between 1846 and 1848, resulting in the United States acquiring significant territory in the Southwest, including present-day California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, and Oklahoma.
Mexican War
War of 1812
American Revolution
French and Indian War
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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A series of laws passed in 1850 that resolved disputes between free and slave states, including the admission of California as a free state and the Fugitive Slave Act, which required citizens to help capture and return runaway slaves.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Comprmoise
Navigation Acts
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A landmark Supreme Court case in 1857 in which the court ruled that African Americans, whether free or enslaved, could not be considered citizens and had no right to sue in federal court.
Dred Scott v. Sandford
McCulloch v. Maryland
Marbury v. Madison
Gibbons v. Ogden
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The 16th president of the United States, who served from 1861 until his assassination in 1865, and is known for his leadership during the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
Ben Franklin
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