-
Undergound rail road
Was a network of "safe places" for runaway slaves to stop at on their way up north.
Harriet Tubman was a main conductor for the railroad.
anti-slavery forces . -
Compromise of 1850
Proposed a new and more effective fugitive slave law. Provided that California be admitted as a free state. -
Fugitive slave act
Anyone convicted of helping a runaway slave was arrested .
pro slavery forces -
Dred Scott case
The U.S. supreme court voted against Dred Scott stating that being on free territory didn't make a slave free. permits extension of slavery. -
The election of President Lincoln
Wasn't on most ballots in the south
opposed slavery
Anti-Slavery forces -
South Carolina leaves the union
Convinced the north wouldn't respect their need and slavery would end. South Carolina would be the first of 11 states to leave the union. -
Anaconda Plan
Was a strategy created by Union General Winfield Scott, to surround the south cutting off their resources land and sea,pushing them inward, squeezing them till they surrender. -
Fort Sumter attacked
Confederate soldiers fire the first shots at Union troops at Fort Sumter, starting the Civil War.
Lincoln has no choice but to declare war on the south. -
Battle of Bull Run
The confederates will the first major battle of the Civil War
This shocked the North -
Battle of Antietam
-bloodiest battle of the Civil War
-union claims victory -
The Emancipation Proclamation
Changed the federal legal status of more than 3 million enslaved people in the South, from slave to freemen -
The 54th Massachusetts
The abolitionist Governor John A. Andrew of Massachusetts issued the Civil War’s first call for black soldiers. Massachusetts did not have many African-American residents, but by the time 54th Infantry regiment headed off to training camp two weeks later more than 1,000 men had volunteered. -
Abraham Lincoln assassination
John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. -
president Andrew Johnson
-Pardoned most confederates who swore allegiance to the union
-House of representatives brings impeachment charges
-found Innocent by one vote -
the 15th amendment
gave the right to vote to African Americans
- The KKK was formed to keep Africans from going to the polls
there were impossible to pass literary test and taxes to pay to vote
