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Compromise of 1850
A series of bills are set into effect in order to stop the new tensions between the northerners and the southerners -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This act allowed the title of "Territory" to Kansas and Nebraska, repealing the Missouri Compromise and (due to popular sovereignity) caused thousands of people siding with both the north and the south, ending in Bleeding Kansas. -
Bleeding Kansas
After the Kansas-Nebraska act, the north and the south encountered a series of violent political confrontations in the Kansas Territory -
Dred Scott Decision
A Supreme Cout decision that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens, causing outrage of the majority of the northerners -
Lincoln–Douglas Debates
A series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas over slavery -
Harper's Ferry
A small group of abolitionists stage attack against a federal armory in Virginia. The intention was to insight a slave revolution to bring downt the institution of slavery. -
Election of Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln defeated Hannibal Hamilton in the election of 1860, in turn, sparking the civil war -
Battle of Fort Sumter
The first battle of The Civil war which took place in South Carolina following the secession of the 7 confederate states. -
Battle of Antietam
The bloodiest battle of the civil war and the first battle on Union soil. (ended in Union victory) -
Emancipation Proclamation
In the third year of civil war, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Procolamation declaring all salves to now be free citizens. This only applied to states that were considered to be in rebellion and excluded states like Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri. -
Gettysburg and Gettysburg Address
4 months before the Union victory of the Civil War. This speach was made at the Gettysburg military cemetary intended to give thanks and appreciation to the Union soldiers who died in the battle for their beliefs. -
Surrender at Appomattox Court House
After the Battle of Appomattox Court, the Confederate Army under leadership by Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union forces, effectively ending the war in Virginia, and in consequense the country. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
While attending "Our American Cousins" at Ford Theater five days after the surrender of confederate troops, Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth , a well known stage actor who was attempting to revive the confederate cause -
Andersonville Prison
The Andersonville Prison was liberated and after liberation, the commanding officer, Henry Wirz, was tried by military tribunal and was found guilty and in turn was sentenced to death on 10 November, 1865. -
Reconstruction "*ERA*" begins
Postwar era of United States' history based on reuiniting the country and bringing the south and the north back on their feet from the long years of war that they had just left. This era involved liberation of slaves, Suffrage, looking to free slaves in South/Central America and the Caribbean along with American slaves, the banning of discrimination based on color, carpetbaggers, scalawags, constitutional ammendments, radical reconstruction, military reconstruction, and the slave unions. -
End of Reconstruction Era
President Grant signed the Electoral Commission Act which effectively ended the era of reconstruction.
