The Missouri Compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state
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Why did the South leave the Union, Who was the first to leave and what did they form?
Abraham Lincoln and his Majority of Republicans, South Carolina, Formed the Confederate States of America
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Who won the election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
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Who were Generals Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett?
Jim Bowie was an American Pioneer and was also known for his sand bar fight and Davy Crockett was a U.S. Representative and Soldier, he was from Tennessee
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What was the first main Battle of the War?
Bull Run
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What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
A Peace Treaty & it started that the U.S. gained full title of Texas with the Rio Grande as a boundary. The U.S. also gained CA & all of what was called NM
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What happened at the Alamo and at San Jacinto?
At the Alamo 2000 Mexican troops besieged 188 Texans. A mission stationed in San Antonio. At San Jacinto Creek, Houston forces turned and attacked.
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What was the Compromise of 1850?
Stronger fugitive slave laws, no more slave trade in DC and California became a state.
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What Act started the Civil War?
When Southern troops fired on Fort Sumpter, A federally controlled military post in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina
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Who was Stephen F. Austin? What did he do?
An American settler, took over a grant of land that the Spanish Gov't had given his father. He brought 30,000 people to TX or Northern Mexico
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What happened at the CA gold rush?
Gold was discovered in CA and people told stories about instant riches, then came the Goldrush from the Eastern US and Europe. Gold was discovered in CA in 1849
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How were the settlers treated (laws) in Texas?
The law against slavery was not strictly enforced in Texas. In 1830 Mexico passed a law restricting further immigration.
