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Lincoln's Election
16th President of the united states. -
Compromise of 1850
the creators of the Constitution limited the authority of the national government by creating 3 branches of government so one branch couldnt overthrow the others. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
divide the area of the Nebraska territory into two terretories. -
Bleeding Kansas
the namesake given to Kansas due to the violence that erupted over the vote on slavery in the territory. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
a series of formal political debates. -
Fort Sumter
a series of resolutions presented to the Senate by Henry Clay to tackle the issue of the statehood of the expanding state of California. -
Bull Run
First major land battle of the American Revolution. -
Harper's Ferry
the fall of this Union hold, which was on an island in Charleston, South Carolina, brought the begining of the Civil War. -
Antietam
a series of powerful assaults against Robert E. Lee's near Sharpsburg, Maryland. -
Emancipation Proclamation
an executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln freeing the slaves in all regions behind Confederate lines. -
Gettysburg and Gettysburg Address
a speech by U.S. President Lincoln , considered one of the most well known in American History. -
Andersonville Prison
Confederate-at-war-camp (Fort Sumter) -
Surrender at Appomattox Court House
Robert E. Lee and his army surrendered to General Grant ending the bloodiest conflict in the nations history. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth took the life of the President at Ford's Theatre. -
The Dred Scott Decision
brought about a major Supreme Court decision, whose owner took him from the slave state of Missouri to free territory in Illinois.
