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Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1850 was made to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As apart of this act the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington DC was abolished. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was a very crucial event leading up to the Civil War. This is when pro slavery "border ruffians" poured into Kansas to attempt to establish that territory as a free state. Bleeding Kansas also led to the establishment of the republican party. -
The Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas Nebraska Act allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery in their borders through the process of popular sovereignty. The act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery in the north. -
The Dred Scott Decision
Sandford, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled that a slave, Dred Scott, who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States. -
Lincoln- Douglas Debate
Slavery is the issue debated by both candidates; Douglas wanted slavery determined by popular sovereignty and Lincoln accepted slavery where it currently was but did not want it to expand into the new territories. -
Lincoln's Election
Lincoln wanted to stop the spread of slavery, not the end it completely and to keep the Union together at all costs
South Carolina threatened to secede if Lincoln was elected. Once elected in 1860 southerners moved away and created the confederate states of America in 1861 to go against Lincoln's beliefs. -
Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army that started the American Civil War. -
Bull Run
The first major land battle of the civil war. McDell enters Virginia with the aim of taking the Confederate capital of Richmond; upon arrival at Bull Run he is confronted by Confederate troops. The strong Confederate soliders cause the Union to retreat back to Washington. -
Harper's Ferry
Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery. -
Antietam
It allowed Abraham Lincoln to issue to Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln had to wait for a Union vctory before declaring slaves forever free. If the union lost the battle, the executive branch would have to wait for another two months. -
Gettysburg and Gettysburg Address
The Battle of Gettysburg was a Union victory that stopped Confederate General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North. The Gettysburg Address is a speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln at the November 19, 1863, dedication of Soldier's National Cemetery, a cemetery for Union soldiers killed at the Battle Of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The emancipation proclamation declared all salves in confederate territory free. This did not free many slaves because they land was under confederate control so the union had trouble freeing them. The plantations were usually located far away from the union. This law also said that that northern slaves were not free. Lincoln didn't want to free all salves because he thought he didn't have the constitutional power to do so. This weakened the south and made the civil war into a war of liberation. -
Andersonville Prison
One of the largest of many established confederate prison camps during the American Civil War. Built early in 1864, more than 45,000 Union soldiers were kept here, nearly 13,000 died from disease, poor sanitation, malnutrition, or exposure to the elements. -
Surrender at Appomattox Court House
The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War. It was the final engagement of Confederate States Army general Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Ulysses S. Grant. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Occurring near the end of the American Civil War, the assassination was part of a larger conspiracy intended by Booth to revive the Confederate cause by eliminating the three most important officials of the United States government. -
Reconstruction
The period after the Civil War, 1865 - 1877, was called the Reconstruction period. Abraham Lincoln started planning for the reconstruction of the South during the Civil War as Union soldiers occupied huge areas of the South. The Civil War ended on April 9, 1865.
