He was a fiery abolitionist who believed that his mission was to liberate enslaved people and punish slave holders

Slave trade, not slavery was forbidden in the district of Columbia. Basically the return policy of a slave.

At the Alamo 2000 Mexican troops besieged 188 Texans. A mission stationed in San Antonio. At San Jacinto Creek, Houston forces turned and attacked.

Abraham Lincoln and his Majority of Republicans, South Carolina, Formed the Confederate States of America

Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson

The law against slavery was not strictly enforced in Texas. In 1830 Mexico passed a law restricting further immigration.

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

John Tyler

Harriet B. S. was an author who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin", which was a novel portraying slavery at its worst.

Dred Scott is still a slave even though he passes over 36 degree 30 line & the consequence = no African can sue a fed. court &a ban on slavery unconstitutional

Stronger fugitive slave laws, no more slave trade in DC and California became a state.

What started the war was the southern boundaries of Texas