... General Andrew Jackson. In 1819, after years of diplomatic wrangling, Spain reluctantly signed the Adams-Onis treaty ceding Florida to the United States in return for U.S. assumption of $5 million in damages claimed by U.S. citizens against Spain. Official U.S. occupation took place in 1821, and Andrew Jackson was appointed ... . Because the West was expanding rapidly, territorial organization, despite these difficulties, could no longer be postponed. Four attempts to organize a single territory for this area had already been defeated in Congress, largely because of Southern opposition to...

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... the biggest reason why the southern states seceded. There were also many compromises that failed to accomplish anything. The Compromise of 1850, for example, was designed to balance the interests of both sides by proposing that slave trade would be abolished in Washington D.C., but to ... The Southern Rebels were very near Washington D.C., and England was talking about recognizing the Confederate States of America. Antietam was a crucial victory for the Union Army. After many Confederate victories, the Union soldiers were beginning to get discouraged and some deserted the Army. The Vic...

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... colonization, the moderates of the American Colonization Movement assumed that African Americans could not fully integrate into American society; they were just not as able, as equal. In arguing for increased rights for African Americans, Garrison made clear that he believed in legal equality, but not social equality. And consistent with the attitudes of his race, he preferred light-skinned to dark ... racial equality. Stevens argued repeatedly that the property of former slave owners should be given to their former slaves. This would crush slave owning aristocrats and establish a solid...

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