Civil war battle 2

Civil War

By grantlockwood

  • abolition

    abolition
    movement to abolish slavery

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    Maine is free state Missouri is a slave state

  • Manifest Destiny

    Manifest Destiny
    Belief US was destined to spread west

  • Santa Fe Trail

    Santa Fe Trail
    Large trail for moving west. 780 miles from Missouri to New Mexico

  • Oregon Trail

    Oregon Trail
    Missouri to Oregon City. Blazed by Marcus and Narcissa Whitman. Proved wagons could travel on the road

  • San Felipe de Austin

    San Felipe de Austin
    Land named after Stephen F. Austin. A bunch of land grants to families moving west,

  • Mexico Abolishes Slavery

    Mexico Abolishes Slavery
    Mexico hath abolished slavery

  • The liberator

    The liberator
    Antislavery paper established by William Lloyd Garrison; demanded immediate emancipation.

  • Stephen F. Austin goes to jail

    Stephen F. Austin goes to jail
    Arrested for inciting revolution in 1833.

  • Nat Turner's Rebellion

    Nat Turner's Rebellion
    Turner and 50 followers attacked 60 white men

  • Texas Revolution

    Texas Revolution
    Several rebellions broke out, one was the Texas revolution. After Stephen F. Austin was arrested and Santa Anna suspended local powers.

  • Texas Enters the U.S.

    Texas Enters the U.S.
    Texas joins U.S.; southerners wanted it to extend slavery. Northeners feared it would tip the balance of states with slavery and without it.

  • Mexican American War

    Mexican American War
    Caused by controversy of Texas' independence from mexico, manifest destiny

  • The North Star

    The North Star
    antislavery paper established by Frederick Douglas.

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
    U.S. received mexico and california territories from mexico for $15 million. Also included present day new mexico, nevada, utah, arizona, colorado, and wyoming.

  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    California admitted as a free state. In return, south states got residents of new mexico and utah could vote for or against slavery.

  • Fugitive Slave Act

    Fugitive Slave Act
    alleged fugitive slaves were not entitled to a trial by jury, anyone convicted of helping a fugitive was liable for a fine of $1,000 and imprisonment for up to six months.

  • Underground Railroad

    Underground Railroad
    The system of escape routes slaves used

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Uncle Tom's Cabin
    Bestseller written for anti-slavery purposes. By Harriet Beecher Stowe.

  • Harriet Tubman

    Harriet Tubman
    Leader of the underground railroad and a former slave.

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act
    Law dividing Kansas and Nebraska. Opposed the Missouri Compromise.

  • Dreadscott V. Stanford

    Dreadscott V. Stanford
    Dred Scott, a slave whose owner took him from
    the slave state of Missouri to free territory in Illinois and Wisconsin
    and back to Missouri. Being in free territory didn't make a slave free.

  • Abraham Lincoln & Stephen Douglas debates

    Abraham Lincoln & Stephen Douglas debates
    Lincoln challenged Douglas to a debate on slavery. Lincoln lost but gained attention.

  • John Brown's Raid/ Harper's Ferry

    John Brown's Raid/ Harper's Ferry
    He believed that the time was ripe for similar uprisings in the
    United States. Brown secretly obtained financial backing from several prominent Northern abolitionists. Took 21 men to Harper's Ferry.

  • Abraham Lincoln Becomes President

    Abraham Lincoln Becomes President
    All the other candidates split the votes, didn't even appear on southern ballots.

  • Formation of the Confederacy

    Formation of the Confederacy
    Delegates from the secessionist states met in
    Montgomery, Alabama, where they formed the Confederate
    States of America, or Confederacy. They also drew up a
    constitution that closely resembled that of the United
    States, but with a few notable differences

  • Attack on Fort Sumter

    Attack on Fort Sumter
    The most important was Fort Sumter, on an island
    in Charleston harbor. Lincoln decided to neither abandon Fort Sumter nor reinforce it. He would merely send in “food for hungry men.

  • Battle of Bull Run

    Battle of Bull Run
    The first bloodshed on the battlefield occurred about three months
    after Fort Sumter fell, near the little creek of Bull Run, just 25 miles from Washington, D.C. The battle was a seesaw affair. In the morning the Union army
    gained the upper hand, but the Confederates held firm, inspired by General Thomas J. Jackson

  • Battle of Antietam

    Battle of Antietam
    The clash proved to be the bloodiest
    single-day battle in American history, with casualties
    totaling more than 26,000. The next day, instead of pursuing
    the battered Confederate army into Virginia and possibly
    ending the war, McClellan did nothing

  • Conscription

    Conscription
    a draft that forced men to serve in the army.

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation
    Document by Lincoln ending slavery.

  • Battle of Gettysberg

    Battle of Gettysberg
    Battle that decided the war. By the second day of battle, the Confederates had driven the Union troops
    from Gettysburg and had taken control of the town

  • Income Tax

    Income Tax
    Congress decided to help pay for the war by collecting the nation’s first income tax, a tax that takes a specified percentage of an individual’s income.