APUSH AP Exam Review period 5-9

Texas annexed and Polk elected

Oregon Treaty established northern border with Canada

   -America acquires OR, WA, parts of ID, WY, MT

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Mexican-American War

   -the Wilmot Proviso defeated quickly

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

   -ends Mexican-American War

   -Mexican cession  $15 million for C(alifornia) A(rizona) N(evada) C(olorado) U(tah) N(ew Mexico)

Taylor dies; Fillmore takes over

Compromise of 1850 written by Stephen Douglas & Henry Clay

   -CA is a state

   -stronger fugitive slave law

   -UT & WM territory created; popular sovereignty will decide slave or free eventually

   -abolished slave trade in DC

Uncle Tom’s Cabin published

- Franklin Pierce elected

Kansas Nebraska Act

   -repealed Missouri compromise

   -championed popular sovereignty

   -ends Whig party essentially

   -Republican party emerges

   -leads to increased sectionalism

Bleeding Kansas

- Bleeding Sumner

- Dred Scott decision

Lincoln-Douglass debates

   -Freeport Doctrine

John Brown raid on Harper’s Ferry

South Carolina seceded from union; 7 more join to form CSA with Jefferson Davis as President