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Andersonville Prison
Camp Sumter, was the South’s largest prison for captured Union soldiers and known for its unhealthy conditions and high death rate. February 1864 - April 1865 -
Compromise of 1850
It strengthened the fugitive State Law, the North gained California as a free state and slave trade was prohibited in Washington D.C but slavery was not. -
The Kansas Nebraska Act
Allowed each territory to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty. Kansas with slavery would violate the Missouri Compromise which was holding the Union together for the last 34 years -
Bleeding Kansas
Series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian", or "southern yankees". -
The Dred Scott Decision
Affirmed the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the western territories. Completely negating the ideology of popular sovereignty and undermining the Republican Party. -
Lincoln – Douglas Debates
The issues Lincoln and Douglas discussed were exceedingly important to the sectional conflict over slavery and states’ rights and also touched deeper questions that would continue to influence political discourse. Lincoln’s viewpoints caused many to believe he was abolitionist which caused the southern states to succeed. -
Harper’s Ferry
John Brown lead a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery. -
Lincoln’s Election
Abraham Lincoln was elected a the 16th president of the U.S, and he was the first Republican that won the presidency . This was the turning point of the feud between the north and the south over slavery. -
Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment in 1861 of U.S Fort Sumter in North Carolina. These were the first shots of the war. -
Bull Run
The Battle of Bull Run was the first major battle of the American Civil War in Virginia -
Antietam
This is the first major battle to take place on Union soil, it is the bloodiest single-day battle in the American history -
Emancipation Proclamation
This was a proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln and it changed the federal legal status of enslaved people in the south from enslaved to free. Causing massive uproar in the south and letting certain union states keep slaves as a political move. -
Reconstruction
Reconstruction shook southern society's foundations then subsided. But it left the national landscape forever changed. The first black institutions of higher learning were founded. (1863 - 1877) -
Gettysburg and Gettysburg Address
After the bloody Battle of Gettysburg, Lincoln gave a speech, which was delivered over two to three minutes. In it, he invoked the principles of human equality embraced by the Declaration of Independence and redefined the Civil War as a struggle not only for the Union, but as "a new birth of freedom" that would bring true equality to all American citizens. -
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
Where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his soldiers to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, which effectively ended the American Civil War. (April 9, 1865) -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
He was mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth in the Presidential Box of Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. Booth shot him because he was a confederate sympathizer, and hated Lincoln