Answer:
Here's the answer with all the relevant time periods!
- Under the Missouri Compromise, Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state 1820
- The Mexican-American War ended with the United States gaining more than 500,000 square miles of Mexican territory 1846-1848
- Under the Compromise of 1850, California was admitted as a free state, and the territories of Utah and New Mexico were created 1850
- Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States 1860
- The Southern states formed a confederation known as the Confederate States of America 1860-1861
Explanation:
It gives all accused criminals the right to a fair trial. This way the government cannot prosecute them for something they did not do.
The period saw major technological advances, including the adoption of gunpowder, the invention<span> of vertical windmills, spectacles, mechanical clocks, and greatly improved water mills, building techniques (Gothic architecture, </span>medieval<span> castles), and agriculture in general (three-field crop rotation).</span>
