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MIssouri Comprimise
This made slavery North of the line made by this compromise illegal, and slavery South of the line legal. Maine was admitted as a free state and MIssouri was admitted as a slave state. The rest of the Lousiana purchase was split in half. -
Abolition
The Abolition became one of the most important movements in history. It was the movement to abolish slavery throughout the U.S -
Underground Railroad
Attempting to escape slavery was very risky bussiness and the underground railroad was a popular route to take. -
Harriet Tubman
A famous slave born in Maryland who became a conductor on the underground railroad and helped free over 300 slaves. -
Santa Fe Trail
One of the busiest routes westward to Santa Fe with many covered wagons with goods. Similar to the Oregon Trail. -
San Felipe De Austin
The main settlement of a colony founded by Stephen F. Austin, an American settler who was given a large amount o fland due to his father who had recieved a land grant from Spain. -
The Liberator
William Loyd Garrison wrote The Liberator in 1828 to deliver the message of emancipation. -
Mexico abolishes slavery
They have banished slavery which had made serious problems, for trade with Texas. Texas had freed their slaves and politics between these two had been a huge issue. -
Texas Revolution
The 1836 rebellion in which Texas gained its
independence from Mexico. -
Fugitive Slave Act
This took away many rights that all americans had from Slaves and this caused an ouroar in the North leading to many protests. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Turner and more than 50 followers attacked 4 plantations and killed about 60 white people. They captured and executed dozens of people. -
Stephen F. Austin goes to Jail
Imprisoned by the Santa Anna for inciting revolution in Mexico. The Texas Revolution soon arose from this. -
Oregon Trail
A trail form Independance, Missouri to Oregon City, first traveled by two methodist named Marcus and Narcissa Whitman. -
Mexican American War
The Mexican American war was fought for the reason of Manifest Destiny. The Mexicans were taking up land that Americans believed was thiers. This then lead to a war over borders. -
Manifest Destiny
The idea that this country was amde to be colonized and we all should foolow the American Dream because it's what we were out on this Earth to do. -
Texas enters the United States
Texas finally entered the Union and was headed quickly towards war. -
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas Debates
Douglas believed in popular soverignty and Lincoln believed that slavery was immoral and should be banished. -
The North Star
Frederick Douglas escaped a life of slavery to become a writer for a newspaper and wrote The North Star as a guide that helped runaway slaves to freedom. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Mexico agreed the Rio Grande as the border between Texas and Mexico. New Mexico ceded into the U.S as well as California territorries. -
Comprimise of 1850
This allowed California into the Union and made a new policy for slavery in the South. This comprimise was rejected unfortunatly. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Beecher Stowe published this novel as a political nover and it became very controversial for it talk about slavery, and the travels she went through as well as the morality of slavery itself. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Slave holding in Kansa, New Mexico, and Utah was something that was argued over for this act and deciding which states to allow slavery was tough. THey wanted to allow as few states as possible for slavery. -
Dread Scott .Vs. Sandford
The Supreme court ruld that "citizens" did not include slaves and that Dred had no arugment and could not claim rights under the constitution. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
As the war broke out between the North and the South. Lincoln was unable to defend his troops and sent supplies to dying men in need of reinforcements not supplies. -
Battle of the Bull Run
The first bloodshed of the war, the Union managed to prevail due to the Confederacy's exhaustion from the battle of Fort Sumter. Stonewall Jackson was the victor for the battle keeping his troops strong. -
Formation of the Confederacy
The U.S split and half became known as the Confederacy, they copied the constitution except they allowed for slavery and had it as a protected right. -
Battle at Antietam
The bloodiest day of american history nearly 26,000 casualties in a single day. Mcellen, the leader at the time nearly lost them the war by not pursuing the other army when they couldve. -
Thirteenth Amendment
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.”. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln used the freeing of slaves as a weapon of war allowin gslaves to become free and fight against the Confederacy. -
Conscription
as the fighting intensified , a draft that forced men to serve in the army known as conscription came into place. -
Income Tax
A tax that takes a specified percentage of an individual’s income. -
Battle as Gettysburg
The three-day battle produced staggering losses: 23,000 Union men and 28,000 Confederates were killed or wounded. Total casualties were more than 30 percent despite the devastation. -
Battle at Vicksburg
One of the two remaining confederate strongholds on the Mississippi River. The confederacy was defeated and now only half of their forces remain. -
Gettysburg Address
Lincoln spoke for over two minutes straight at the cemetary to commemorate all the deaths that occurred in the war. -
Sherman's March
General Sherman began to carve a path through Georgia and to the Sea. They destroyed everything in their path, he was followed by nearly 25,00 slaves. -
Surrender at Appomattox Court House
General Lee and Grant met at a private home to discuss the end of the war. Within a month all remaining Confederate resistance collapsed. After four long years, the Civil War was over. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln was shot and murdered in a theater not long after the war had finally ended. John Wilkes Booth was the murderer and was found 2 weeks later and shot dead.
