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Compromise of 1850
Laws were passed that dealt with slavery. New stated on both sides were added to the Union -
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The Kansas Nebreska Act
Ten states were created by this act. Tension rose due to the Missouri Compromise not alowing states to become slave states past a certian border. -
Bleeding Kansas
Due to popular sovereignty the states could choose whether they would be slave or non. When Kansas was created pro and anti slave people rushed to the new state. A radical abolitionists named John would ingite a bloody battle after killing pro slavery people in thier own houses. -
The Dredd Scott Decision
The Supreme Court decied that any black man is not an American citizen. There for can not sue in federal court. -
Lincoln-Douglass Debates
Lincoln and Douglass would have debates for Illnois seat in the Senate. Lincoln would go on to loose the campaign. -
Lincoln Election
Elected November, 6, 1860, Presient would become the 16th president. His election would become one of the trigger events for the war. -
Fort Sumter
The first shots of the Civil War happended in South Carolina -
Antietam
A bloody battle fought in Virinia that would kill/injury 23,000 soldiers. -
Harper's Ferry
Confederates captured a Union arsenal in Maryland -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Lincolns speach, which stated, that all men are free. White or black. -
Gettysburg and Gettysburg Address
Gettysburg, Pennslyvania would witness the wrost battle of the war. A staggering 51,000 soldiers were either killed or wounded. On November 19, 1863 President Lincoln would adress the battle. Giving one of the most memorbale speeches in Unted Staes history. -
Andersonville Prison
A Confederate prison that held Union prisoners. Conditons were vey poor. It almost always held more men then it was built for. -
Surrender at Appomattox Court House
The Confedrates would surrender to the Union. Robert E. Lee would sign the treaty in Virginia. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
At Ford's Theater, actor, John Wilkes Booth would assassinate President Lincoln. -
Reconstruction
By this date all Confederate states were back to being in the Union. Some Southerners refused to go back and created the KKK
