-
Compromise of 1850
It was the admission of California as a free state; the strengthening of the Fugitive Slave Law; popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico concerning the question of slavery; the abolition of the slave trade in D.C.; and the federal assumption of Texas's debt. -
The Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas Nebraska Act allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. -
The Dred Scott Decision
The Supreme Court ruled that Scott was still a slave, and that means he has no right to file suit in a United States court as he was not a citizen and did not have the rights of such. -
Lincoln - Douglas Debates
There were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Senator Stephen Douglas -
Harper's Ferry
John Brown initiated an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
Lincoln's Election
Lincoln again faced Douglas and won the his party's presidential nomination. -
Fort Sumter
The Confederate States Army started attacking the fort, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army that started the American Civil War. -
Bull run
Union and Confederate armies clashed near Manassas Junction, Virginia, in the first major land battle of the American Civil War. -
Bleeding Kansas
A series of violent political confrontations in the Kansas between the anti-slavery and pro-slavery sides. -
Antietam
Over 23,000 men died in the 1-day Battle of Antietam, making it the bloodiest day in American history. The Union victory at Antietam resulted in President Abraham Lincoln making the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation granted freedom to the slaves in the Confederate States if the States did not return to the Union by January 1, 1863. -
Gettysburg and Gettysburg Address
Is a speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln at the Soldier's National Cemetery, where the soldiers of the Union who died at Gettysburg were buried. -
Andersonville prison
Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the final twelve months of the American Civil War. -
Surrender at Appomattox Court House
Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. -
Reconstruction
The period following the Civil War of rebuilding the United States and endless questions of what to do next.
