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Compromise of 1850
Written by Henry Clay, there are 5 parts;
-California is admitted as a free state
-New Mexico and Utah can choose to be free or slave
-no sale on slaves in Washington D.C.
-Texas would give up claim to New Mexico territory
-Fugitive slave act; required citizens to apprehend runaway slaves -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Toms Cabin sparked a big political debate between the North and South. The North viewed the horrors of slavery and the South thought it was over dramatic. -
Dred Scott Case
Scott was a slave who tried to sue for his freedom in court. It got so big it went all the way to the Supreme Court and at the end of the day he lost because blacks were considered property and had no rights to be a human. -
Abraham Lincoln's Election
Mostly not on the Southern ballots, Lincoln was a Republican and his views on anti-slavery made a lot of southerners worried.Shortly after southern states started to withdraw from the union. -
Bleeding Kansas
Starting in 1851, Kansas Nebraska acts was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free Staters and proslavery Border Ruffian, or southern people in Kansas. At the base of the conflict was the question of whether Kansas would allow or not allow slavery, and enter the Union as a slave state or a free state. -
The First Battle at Bull Run
It was the first major battle of the civil war and the Confederates took the victory. -
Battle of Antietam
Also known as Sharpsburg, the bloodiest battle of the civil war, Robert E. Lee's first invasion of the North. -
Battle of Gettysburg
3 day battle, Union victory, major victory because it kept Lee from invading the North again. More than 50,000 men died making it the bloodiest battle in civil war history. -
Battle of Chancellorsville
The Battle of Chancellorsville, started April 30th and ended May 6, 1863, resulted in the Confederates winning, and with that stopped an attempted flanking movement by Joseph Hooker’s Army of the Potomac against the left of Robert E. Lee’s Army. The Southern victory was crushed by the death of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, who was accidentally shot and killed by his own men. -
Siege of Vicksburg
Ulysses S. Grant's armies attacked Vicksburg, destroying the city and entrapping a Confederate army under Lt. General John Pemberton. On July 4, 1863 Vicksburg surrendered after long siege operations. -
Freedman's Bureau
provides shelter, food, water to emacipated slaves. It was super costly and was abolished in 1872. -
Ku Klux Klan
The Klan was a group of white men who did HORRIBLE things to African Americans for no reason. They murdered innocent black people and or hurt them just for the fun of it. Which created more political problems. -
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Confers citizenship on African Americans and guarantees equal rights. -
Ulysses S. Grant elected President
He has NO experience in the political field what so ever. The people looked for him to end the termoil, but he didnt reslly know how. He brought alot of his Army staff into the white house. -
First black Senator was elected
Hiram Revels of Mississippi elected to U. S. Senate as the first black senator. He was born free in North Carolina, and then moved to Ohio where he got to vote before the civil war started.
