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The Wilmot Proviso
the Wilmot Proviso suggesting that slavery be banned in any territory acquired through the Mexican Cession. It passed in the house -
The Election of 1848
the FREE-SOIL PARTY. They wanted to keep new territories and states free of slavery. They nominated former President Martin Van Buren against the Whig candidate -
The Compromise of 1850
California was admitted as a free state.
Set Texas-New Mexico border -
Fugitive Slave Act
This event was highly controversial. this made it a crime to aid a runaway slave -
The Kansas- Nebraska Act
The Kansas - Nebraska act was turned into a law -
Bleeding Kansas
thousands of so called Border Ruffians crossed the border to vote from the slave state of Missouri -
The Republican Party and the Election of 1856
Northern Democrats and Free-Soilers to
are not the same as create the Republican Party
their roots. -
Dred Scott
Supreme Court case about an enslaved man named Dred Scott fueled the abolitionist cause. Scott was a slave to an army doctor in Missouri, -
Fort Sumter
marked the beginning of the civil war in response lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to serve in the army for 90 days. -
Battle of Bull Run
Ended both sides hopes for a short war. -
Battle of Antietam
on september 17,1862 was the bloodiest day of the civil war.union and confederate casualties combined exceeded 23,000 -
Battle of Chancellorsville
was lees greatest victory see illustration below. -
Emancipation Proclamation
this document freed enslaved people in all areas that were in all areas that were in rebellion against the united states. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The skirmish that took place on July 1, 1863, developed into the historic three-day battle of Gettysburg. -
Ku Klux Klan
One such group was the Ku Klux Klan, which formed in 1866 and began terrorizing African Americans and whites who supported their rights. -
The Fifthteenth Amendment
The Fifthteenth Amendment was protecting the voting rights of African Americans males -
Fifteenth Amendment
To protect African American voting rights, Republicans quickly pushed the Fifteenth Amendment through Congress in February 1869. -
Sharecropping
Instead of working for wages, freedmen could receive share of their employer's crop, a system known as sharecropping. -
Liberal Republicans
Those who broke with the party over the enforcement Acts and corruption -
Liberal Republicans
Conditions in the South strengthened the Liberal Republicans, those who broke with the party over the Enforcement Acts and corruption scandals in the Grant administration.