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Missouri Compromise
In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
California gold rush
Miners extracted more than 750,000 pounds of gold during the California Gold Rush. Days after Marshall's discovery at Sutter's Mill, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed, ending the Mexican-American War and leaving California in the hands of the United States
The compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War.
figure slave act
Most importantly, it decreed that slave owners and their “agents” had the right to search for escaped slaves within the borders of free states. ... The law also imposed a $500 penalty on any person who helped harbor or conceal escaped slave
Uncle toms cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin begins with the daring escape of the young slave woman, Eliza, and the sale of the kindly, middle-aged slave, Tom, to settle the debts of his master, a struggling Kentucky farmer. ... When Tom encourages and helps two of Legree's slaves, Cassy and Emmeline, to escape, that's the last straw.
The Fighting Temeraire
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. HMS Temeraire was one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. [more]
The Hireling Shepherd
This is a painting by William Holman Hunt, a leading British Pre-Raphaelite.
Ophelia
Ophelia is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais, completed between 1851 and 1852. It depicts Ophelia, a character from Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark. [more]
Kansas Nebraska act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´.
