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Missouri Comprimise
Dividing line of free and slave states, any new states below will be slave, and any above free. -
Comprimise Of 1850
Fugative slave law changed in order to keep the balence when the Slave Trade law was removed. -
Fugative Slave Law
All slaves will be returned to their owners even if found in a free state -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Says that Kansas and Nebraska will determin if they are slave of free states by popular vote, violating the Missouri Comprimise. -
Bleeding Kansas
Series of deaths and violence caused by the anti slaves person John Brown and pro slave groups -
Douglas - Lincoln Debates
Debate between two men running for IL senete, one pro slavery one anti slavery, important because it gets Lincolns name known -
Harpers Ferry
John Brown attempts to arm slaves by steeling an arsenal at Harpers Ferry, but fails. -
Dred Scott Decision
A supreme Court decision that essentially means slaves are property not people -
Election of 1860
Licoln wins the the election and North Carolina gets upset and secedes. This causes a federal boundry issue. -
Fort Sumter
The surrenderes near Charleston, shortly after Decoration of Secession -
Bull Run 1
First battle of the war. The Cnfederated win stunning the Nort. The people realize this is not a afternoon TV show, its serious and bad. -
Ft. Donelson
Union captures Confederat fort near the Tennesse and Kentucky border, opening up the Cumberland River so the North could use it to their advantage. -
Battle of Pea Ridge
Confederates move to upper Arkansas, in an attempt to capture Arkansas and Missuri, led by Samuel Curtis -
Battle of Shiloh
Also known as Pittsburge Landing, major battle in Tennesee, Confederates try to regain Tennesee but fail. -
Bull Run 2
Popes army fights Jacksons, lots of casualties on both sides resulting in a stalemate. -
Frederickson
Battle fought in Virgina between Robert Leigh and Confederates, -
Emancipation Proclimation
Lincoln decalsred in the proclamation "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." bringing hope to the slaves. -
Gettysburg
Largest battle of the CIvil war Fought in SOuthern Pennslyvania. Turning point in the war because the north wins bringing up spirits and proving the Northern abilities -
Antietam
one of bloodiest day in the was history ended in a tie, but the Confederate retreat gave Abraham Lincoln the end result he wanted. -
Theory of Total War
A theory that to win you must destroy all civilization to cut off resources and kill everything so there is no coming back. -
Vicksburg
Vicksburg surrendered after long seige attempts. This devides the Confederates. -
Sherman's March to the Sea
Union army marches afterShermans gone. Atlanta is burned, cutting off a major Southern Hub, signifaicantly damadging the South -
13th Amendment
Abolished slavery, raising black hopes, -
Apprmattox Courthouse
One of the last battles of the Civil war, showing that the North is going to win. -
Assassination & Death of Lincoln
John Booth shoots Lincoln in a theater, Lincoln is taken to the house across the street and dies the next morning