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Compromise of 1850
After the Mexican-American war they made some territory slave sates and some not. California was a free state, New Mexico and Utah were to be determined and all slave trade ended in Washington -
The Kansas Nebraska Act: (1854)
Mandated popular sovereignty, which allowed each state to decided if slavery was permitted. -
Bleeding Kansas:(1854 after Kansas Nebraska act)
The period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. Pro-slavery settlers went into Kansas trying to influence the decision. Abolitionist John Brown led anti-slavery fighters in Kansas to fight them. -
The Dred Scott Decision(1857)
Made it a right for slave owners to take their slaves to the West. This caused controversy in whether slaves are allowed in the West. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Debates between Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 Illinois state election campaign. They discussed many topics like slavery and other deeper questions usally not talked about in debates. -
Harper’s Ferry (1859)
Harpers Ferry was a target of an attack by abolitionist John Brown. It was intended to be the first stage of a plan to establish an independent stronghold of freed slaves in Maryland and Virginia. This increased the tension between the north and the south before the war. John Brown was captured and hung after this event. -
Lincoln’s Election (1860)
16th president of the united states and the first republican to ever win. His main opponant was the Democratic represenitive,Stephen Douglas. -
Fort Sumter 1861
General P.G.T. Beauregard for the Confederate army fired at Fort Sumter, a Union army fort. These shot were considered the first of the Civil War. Major Anderson and his troops quickly surrendered and the Confederate army controlled the fort for the next 4 years. -
Bull Run (July 21,1861)
The first major battle of the Civil War. The South won giving them a confidence boost. The North was shocked and they realized the war would not be as easily won as they thought it would be. -
Antietam (September 17, 1862)
First battle on northern land by Antietam creek in Sharpsburg, Maryland. After many Union defeats, this provided Abraham Lincoln the political cover he needed to issue his Emancipation Proclamation. This was one of the bloodiest days in American history, with more then 22,000 casualties. -
Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863)
After the Battle of Antietam, President Lincoln declared that “all persons held as slaves (within the rebellious states) are, and henceforward, shall be free.” This did not actually end up freeing any slaves, but set the tone for the war. -
Gettysburg and Gettysburg Adress (November 1863)
President Lincoln gave a speech that is considered as one of the most important speeches in American history. -
Andersonville Prison (1864)
Largest Confederates military prison. All of the captured Union soldiers would be sent there and they suffered unhealthy conditions. -
Surrender at Appomattox Court House (April 9, 1865)
Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his approximately 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in the front parlor of Wilmer McLean’s home in Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (April 14, 1865)
John Wilkes Booth shot the president at Ford’s Theatre. This was only five days after the confederates surrendered. -
Reconstruction (1865)
Period after the war ended. Many people had questions and had great pain from losing people in the war.
