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Compromise of 1850
California came in as a free state and to avoid crisis between the North and the South, Henry Clay and Stephan Douglas made a compromise that had five parts to it. Having the fugitive slave law amended and having slave trade in Washington, D.C. be abolished were apart of those five parts. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe was a woman who wrote the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin". It was a book that stressed how slavery wasn't just a political issue but a great moral issue as well. This stirred northern abolitionists to increase their protests against the fugitive slave act. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
There was a divide between Kansas and Nebraska where Nebraska would be a part of the North and Kansas was a part of the South. The bill repealed the Missouri compromise but still became a law. -
Bleeding Kansas
By March 1855, Kansas had enough people in a territory to hold an election for territorial legislature. Missourians came across the border (border ruffians) and voted illegally. eventually, bloody violence surfaced the struggle for Kansas earning the name Bloody Kansas. -
Dred Scott Case
A slave who's owner took him from slave states to free states. He felt that he was a free man since he was on free soil and he took this case to the supreme court. The courts ended up overrulling his case because only citizens could sue and by definition he was a piece of property. -
South Carolina Leaves the Union
After Lincoln took office in 1860 South Carolina, furious with the election, decides to branch off from the Union. Several other southern states decide to follow in South Carolina's footsteps and leave also; creating the Confederate States of America. -
P.G.T Beauregard Opens Fire on Fort Sumter
Pres. Lincoln didn't want to start a war but he needed to send supplies to Fort Sumter. Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard, new general of the CSA opened fire on the fort and this was the first declaration of war from the south. -
Antietam, Maryland
Robert E.Lee invades the North and while there, the North found Lee's orders wrapped around three cigars. The North tried to use the orders against the South but within the first three hours, 12,000 men were killed. It ended up as a draw and no one really won but on paper the North took the win. -
Emancipation Proclomation
After the battle of Antietam, Pres. Lincoln passes the emancipation proclamation; freeing all slaves in rebellious states. It, however, did nothing for the slaves in the Northern states but kept foreign help away from the CSA. -
The Battle of Chancellorsville
This battle was known as Lee's greatest victory. He took a huge risk splitting his army up and hitting the North's army from two different sides. Lee's right hand man ended up dying from wounds in his left arm. -
Gettysburg
This was known as the turning point of the war because Lee ordered an attack that pierced union lines but eventually failed. He only had !5,000 soldiers with him so that is what lead to his downfall. -
!3th Amendment
The 13th amendment abolished slavery in all states and territories. This stopped the spread of slavery for good. -
Appomattox Court House
Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant in a peaceful manner. He only asked for two things: that his men get to keep their horses and that he should get to keep his gun. -
14th Amendment
The 14th amendment made it so that all persons born in the U.S. were citizens. It also prevented any of the former CSA members from holding political power. -
15th Amendment
No citizen could be denied the right to vote based on color or race or previous servitude. The 13th, 14th, and the 15th amendment were a part of the "punish the south" idea. The North didn't want the sound to get away with what they did so the North made all of these amendments.
