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Compromise of 1850
California would be a free state and it proposed a new and more effective fugitive slave law. -
Fugitive Slave Act
Proslavery forces held that alleged fugitives were not entitled to a trail by a jury. -
Underground Railroad
A network of safe places that runaway slaves could get North. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Established popluar soveriginity -the right for citizens to vote for or aganist slavery. -
Republician Party
Anti slavery forces believed that spread of slavery threatened the free states. -
Dred Scott Decision
Being in free territory didn't make a slave free. -
Lincoln and Douglas Debate
Lincoln had challenged Douglas to a series of debates. Limcoln would win the debate. -
Harpers Ferry
An attempt to ignite a general slave. -
Union Army First Invasion
In February 1862 a Union Army invaded western Tennessee by General Ulysses S. Grant. -
Union Army two Confederate Forts
Ulysses Grants captured Fort Henry on the Tennessee and Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River. -
The War for the Captials
McClellan was leading his army toward Richmond, he met a Confederate army commanded by General Joseph E. Johnston. After a series of battles, Johnston was wounded, and command of the army was passed on the Robert E. Lee. -
Antietam
McClellan ordered his men to pursue Lee, and the two sides fought on September 17 near a creek.The clash proved to be the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with casualties totaling more than 26,000. -
The Tide Turns
Lee's army had defeated the Union Army of the Potomac at Fredericksburg, Virginia. -
Battle of Frederickburg
The South looks to tought to be beaten. -
Abraham Lincoln Decision
Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation. -
Confederate States
In April and May, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee seceded, bring the number of Confederate State to 11. -
Another Victory
The South defeated the North again at Chancellorsville, Virginia. -
Stonewall Jackson shot
As General Stonewall Jackson returned from a patrol on May 2, Confederate guards accidentally shot him in the left arm. -
Battle of Chancellorsville
Stonewall Jackson was shot and killed. -
Battle of Gettysbrug
Lee is pushed back to Virginia by the Union Army. -
Battle of Vicksburg
Union gain control of the Mississippi River. -
Battle of Atlanta
The Union destroyed one of the Confederates major city. -
Richmond/Appomattiox Court House
Confederates surrender to end the Civil War. -
Thirteenth Amendent
Abolished slavery in the United States, -
Lincoln Assassinated
While Lincoln and his wife were at Ford's Theatre in Washington and man crept up behing Lincoln and shot Lincoln in the back fo his head. -
12 Days After Lincoln Assassination
Union cavalry trapped John Wilkes Booth in a Virginia tobacco shed and shot him dead. -
Grant Election
In 1868 Presidential Election, Grant won by a margin of only 306,000 votes out of 6 million ballot casted. -
Reconstruction Process
The South and North had to rebuild becasue the damge done to the North ann South
