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Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress -
The Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebrask Act was an 1854 bill that mandated “popular sovereignty”–allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas is the term used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraksa Act overturned the Missouri Compromise’s use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory -
The Dred Scott Decision
The United States Supreme Court issues a decision in the Dred Scott case, affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories, therefore negating the doctrine of popular sovereignty and severely undermining the platform of the newly created Republican Party. -
Lincoln – Douglas Debates
The Lincoln–Douglas Debates of 1858 were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate -
Lincoln’s Election
This was the day licion was elected president of the Unitede States -
Harperrs Ferry
Their was a battle at harpers ferry that led to the surrender of the garrison located in the town -
Antietam
was the first battle to take place on union soil. -
Emancipation Proclamation
this is the date most Americans identify as the day the Emancipation Proclamation officially took effect, the ideals of the Proclamation had been carefully contemplated by President Lincoln many months before. -
Gettysburg and Gettysburg Address
this was the most bloodiest and decisive battle in the civil war. -
Andersonville Prison
Camp Sumter as it was known officially, held more prisoners at any given time than any of the other Confederate military prisons -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
this was the night Jhon Wilks Booth shot Aberham lincoln in the head. -
Surrender at Appomattox Court House
General Robert E Lee surrendered aproximatly 28,000 troops to General Ulysses S. Grant. This ended the Civil War. -
Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter is a sea fort located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, and notable for two historic battles of the American Civil War -
Reconstruction
during the recostruction of the south the state legisture passed "'Black Codes"'. Lincon said in a speech he gave "blacks who enlisted in the military should be able to vote.
