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Compromise of 1850
Admitting California as a free state, and cutting the Texas territory. Popular sovereignty In the Mexican Cession. -
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1850 to 1875
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Kansas- Nebraska Act
Kansas and Nebraska were created. It gave the people choice to be a slave state or a free state through popular sovereignty. Broke the Missouri Compromise of 1820 -
Jefferson Davis
Was the president of the Confederacy. West point military academy. -
Fort Sumter
It happen in Charleston Harbor in South Carolina. Confederate won the beginning of the civil war. When 500 Confederates attack 80 union soldiers. -
Bull Run 1st
First real battle of Civil War, which northern troops and civilians fled back to Washington. When the north realized this was going to be a long war. It gave the south confidence 20k Confederate vs 35k Union Confederate won, -
Harper's Ferry
John Brown leads his sons into Harpers Ferry to try and steal guns. He wanted to create a uprising have the near by salves join him. Brown was executed for treason. -
2nd Battle of Bull run
Jackson fries on Pope. Jackson had 15,000 vs Pope 40,000. Lee out general with Stonewall Jackson. Confederate victory. One of Lee's first victories. -
Antietam
Was the bloodiest battle of the war. Bloody Land was when the both sides fight on the opposite side of the road. Burnside Bridge where the Confederates trying to get over. Union victory was the bloodiest with a total of 25,000 dead on both sides. -
Battle of Fredricksburg
Failed at taking over Richmond the capital. Unions lost the double as may as the Confederates did. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Declared all salves to be free but it didn't do much to the salves in the south has they were still under Confederate control. It did make them look weak. Lincoln views about getting the south back remained the same as before. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Lee marched his army to the north for his 2nd invasion. But General Joseph Hooker had his men in defense position this made the Confederates retreat or die. Between 46,000 and 51,000 soldiers from both armies were dead. -
Siege of Vicksburg
The take over the control of the Mississippi river and split the Confederates in half. 19,000 dead. it took 48 days but was on most successful. Union victory -
Gettysburg address
Lincoln wrote this to reunite the South and North. To honor all the people that died in the war. To save the nation become 1 whole again. -
13th 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, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." - U.S. Constitution It was to end slavery forever everywhere in the United States -
15th Amendment
It gave all African American male right to vote. "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." - U.S. Constitution
