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  1. 4. This was passed by Congress along with the Compromise Tariff, authorizing the president to use the military to collect federal tariff duties.
  2. 6. This was a statement delivered by President James Monroe, warning any European powers to refrain from seeking any new territories in the Americas. The US lacked power to back up this statement. The British later enforced it
  3. 10. Released by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, it freed all slaves in seceded slave states. It did not apply to slaves in Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland, or Missouri as these slaves states had not seceded.
  4. 12. this constitutional amendment prohibited states from denying citizens the franchise on account of race. It disappointed feminists who wanted the Amendment to include guarantees for women's suffrage.
  5. 14. was a civil war in Kansas over the issue of slavery in the territory, which was fought intermittently until it merged with the National Civil War.
  6. 16. This was the belief that the United States was destined by God to spread its "empire of liberty" across North America. This served as a purpose for expansion.
  7. 17. this was a constitutional amendment that extended civil rights to freedmen and prohibited states from taking away such rights without due process.
  8. 18. war was a series of clashes between American and Canadian lumberjacks in the disputed territory of Northern Maine.
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  1. 1. was an uprising in China directed against foreign influence. It was suppressed by an international force of some eighteen thousand soldiers, including several thousand Americans.
  2. 2. This proposed that the issue of slavery be decided by popular sovereignty in the Kansas and Nebraska territories, thus revoking the 1820 Missouri Compromise, introduced by Stephen Douglass in efforts to create a northern transcontinental railroad.
  3. 3. This prohibited most further Chinese immigration to the United States. This was the first major legal restriction on immigration in US history.
  4. 5. This was the South Carolina location where Confederate forces fired the first shots of the Civil War on April of 1861.
  5. 7. This admitted California as a free state, opened New Mexico and Utah to popular sovereignty, ended the slave trade (but not slavery itself) in Washington D.C., and introduced a more stringent fugitive slave law. This was widely opposed in both North and South.
  6. 8. This woman wrote the majority of the Declaration of Sentiments and campaigned for women's rights at the Seneca Falls Convention.
  7. 9. This was Congressional legislation that compelled railroads to publish standard rates, and prohibited rebates and pools. Railroads became adept at using this to achieve their own ends, but it gave the government an important means to regulate big business.
  8. 11. this was a constitutional amendment that prohibited all forms of slavery and involuntary servitude. Former Confederate States were required to ratify the amendment prior to gaining reentry into the Union.
  9. 13. The members of this secret society used sheets to conceal their identities and terrorized freedmen after the Civil War.
  10. 15. This law promised blacks equal access to public accommodations and banned racism in jury selection, but the Act provided no means of enforcement and was therefore ineffective.