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Underground Railroad
established in the United States. This helped slaves escape from the South and gave them sage passage to the North. one of the most famous person who ran the Underground Railroad was Harriet Tubman. The earliest mention of the Underground Railroad came in 1831 when slave, Tice Davids, escaped from Kentucky into Ohio and his owner blamed an “underground railroad” for helping Davids to freedom.https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/underground-railroad -
Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1850 allowed California to be admitted as a free state. However there were no slavery restrictions in Utah or New Mexico territories. Slave trade was prohibited in Washington D.C. Slaveholding however was permitted in Washington D.C.
Texas lost the boundary dispute with New Mexico but Texas gets $10 million dollars. The Fugitive Slave Law said that slaves had to be returned to the South. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas is a term used to describe when states could decide if they wanted to allow slavery or not. Proslavery and free-state settlers flooded into Kansas to try to influence the voting. Kansas was voted to allow slavery and the citizens rebelled by fighting and killing those who were proslavery. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Election of 1860
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Secession of Southern States
After Lincoln became President in 1860 the South decided to leave the Union and form the Confederate States of America. The South was afraid that Lincoln was going to end slavery. -
Seven Days Battle
The Union army tried to take over the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia. The Confederates were able to defeat the Union army
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Battle at Shiloh
On April 6, 1862, 40,000 Confederate soldiers under the command of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston fought Ulysses S Grant. The Union army won but there were over 26000 casualties.
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Reconstruction
The Union victory in the Civil War in 1865 may have given some 4 million slaves their freedom, but the process of rebuilding the South during the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) introduced a new set of significant challenges. Ku Klux Klan–would reverse the changes wrought by Radical Reconstruction in a violent backlash that restored white supremacy in the South. -
Battle of Vicksburg
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South Surrenders
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Lincoln's Assassination
John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C.
https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/abraham-lincoln-assassination
