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Missouri Compromise
This compromise was stated in the year of 1820. this compromise was to admit Maine as a free state, and Missouri as a free state. Slavery would be prohibited north of latitude 36 degree 30'. This compromise threatened the balance of the number of slave and free states. -
Compromise of 1850
A compromise that gave the north and the south part of what they wanted. The compromise allowed California to enter the UNion as a free state. The Compromise enacted the Fugitive Slave Law which required free states o return escaped slaves to their owners. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
An act that was stated in 1854. This act was stated to settle the issue of slavery in the Kansas and Nebraska areas.Violent raids vecame known as "Bleeding Kansa". It tore the Whig party apart. It divided the nation in half over the issue of slavery, and repealed the Missouri Compromise. -
Dred Scott Case
Occured in 1857. A slave who lived in a free territory, and wanted to sue in federal court for his freedom. The court denied his right to sue, and that congress could not ban slavery from America's terrirtories. Anti-slavery forces were ouraged, and the nation was maore divided over the institution of slavery. -
Election of 1860
A four- way contest for the next president in 1860. The country was in a deadlock over the future of slavery. The debate of slavery was the boiling point in this election. Abraham Lincoln against slavery, and he won the elction. The south became powerless, and Georgia and six other states at shocked seceded from the Union. South Carolina was the first to secede, and Georgia followed. The south developed their own declaration of independence. -
Union Blockade 1861
The Union Blockade was set-up in 1861. This was a blockade to prevent all ships from entering or leaving southern parts. The Union wanted to keep the south from gaining more weapons and supplies. Afraid slaves would be freed or escape to the north, and the economy of the south would decline -
Emancipation Proclamation
A document issued by president Linoln on January 1, 1862. This was a document stating all persons held as slaves in any state aor part of a state waging war aganst the U.S.A shall be forward and forever set free. Slavery continued in Georgia as before. Slaves were welcomed to join the Union Army. Many slaves left the confederate states and went to the Union States. -
Battle of Antietam
A battle fought on Septeber 17, 1862. The battle was the most bloodiest one- day battle in American history. The battle was fought on Sharpsburg, Maryland. The number of casualties were shocking for both sides. The Union and Confederacy both realized this war would be long and brutal. -
Battle of Gettysburg
A battle fought in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on July 1-3, 1863 This battle was the bloodies battle of the Civil War, and the Union won. This was the war's turning point, and it electrified the north. A speech was give bt President Lincoln to honor the Union's dead soldies, and to redifine purpose of the war known as the Gettysburg Address. -
Sherman's Campaign/ March 1864
Sherman's March to the Sea is the name commonly given to the Savannah Campaign conducted through Georgia from November 15, 1864 to December 21, 1864 by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army in the American Civil War. The campaign began with Sherman's troops leaving the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia, on November 16 and ended with the capture of the port of Savannah on December 21. Sherman's forces destroyed military targets as well as industry, infrastructure, and civilian prop -
Appomattox Courthouse 1865
The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought on the morning of April 9, 1865, was the final engagement of Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, and one of the last battles of the American Civil War. When he realized that the cavalry was backed up by two corps of Union infantry, he had no choice but to surrender. The signing of the surrender documents occurred in the parlor of the house
