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