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Expansion from CW

Expansion from CW to 20th century

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This event sparked massive immigration to California Gold Rush
Added to the western section of the country in southern Arizona and New Mexico Gadsden Purchase
Allowed California to come in as a free state, outlawed slavery in DC, passed a new Fugitive Slave Law, established popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah territories, adjusted the Texas boundaries Compromise of 1850
Used the idea of popular sovereignty as a means of determining whether states from the Louisiana Purchase should be free or slav Kansas Nebraska Act
Established that Congress had no authority to restrict slavery in the territories Dred Scott v. Sanford
Written by the proslavery government in Kansas, accepted by Buchanan but opposed in Congress Lecompton Constitution
Gold rush in the area in 1858 sparks flood of miners moving to this area Colorado
Gave free land to settlers Homestead Act
Gave land to states to establish colleges devoted to agricultural research Morrill Land Grant Act
Linked the country; finished in 1869 Transcontinental Railroad
Blacks who emigrated from the South to Kansas after the Civil War Exodusters
Terminated the treaty process with Indians and said the federal could manage tribal affairs without tribal Indian Appropriations Act
Transported thousands out west; nicknamed prairie schooners Conestoga Wagons
This invention put an end to cattle drives Barbed Wire
Posited that the frontier had had a unique impact on the formation of the American character Frederick Jackson Turner
Said that we needed overseas possessions to maintain a strong navy which was essential to military strength Alfred Thayer Mahan
Resisted annexing Hawaii Grover Cleveland
Said that we had no interest in annexing Cuba Teller Amendment
Gave us the right to interfere in Cuban affairs to maintain order Platt Amendment
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