-
Missouri Compromise
The balance of power was separated between slave and free states. This led to conflict between the states. -
Nat Turner Slave Rebellion
Slave rebellion led by Nat Turner involving slaves who killed whites. Inspired the Virginia Slavery debate. -
War With Mexico
War fought over Texas land between Mexico and America. This doubled the size of the U.S. -
Wilmot Proviso
A proposal in the U.S congress to ban slavery in the territory acquired from Mexico. This proposal was unsuccessful. -
Compromise Of 1850
Five laws passed creating California as a free state. Utah and New Mexico were left to decide whether to be a slave or free state. Texas and New Mexico established a border. -
Fugitive Slave Act
Act that required slaves to be returned to their owners even if they were in a free state. The Federal Government was responsible for finding and returning, escaped slaves. -
Publication of Uncles Tom's Cabin
Anti-Slave novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe. This book widened the arguments between the North and South. This weakened British sympathy the South. The North grew stronger in abolitionism. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Missouri Compromise was reversed. This allowed Slavery to be legal in the original areas of the Louisiana Purchase. -
Bleeding Kansas
Pro and anti-slavery mini war. Led to Republican Party. -
Dred Scott Decision
The U.S Supreme Court exceeded in Missouri Compromise because it had no power to forbid or abolish slavery in the west and north. -
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
Raid with a small group of people led by John Brown. Attempt to start an armed revolt of enslaved people and destroy the institution of slavery. -
Abraham Lincoln elected president
Lincoln did not want slavery to expand anymore. He refused to accept any resolution that would result in Southern succession from the union. -
South Carolina secedes
The first state to secede from the Union. South Carolina was one of the founding member sates of the Confederacy. -
Formation of the Confederate State of America
7 southern states left the Union to make up the Confederate states. These states including, South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and with representatives from Texas. -
Fort Sumter
Battle between Union and Confederate. The Union were forced to surrender the fort. -
Antietam
Enabled the Union to repel the first Confederate invasion of the North. A tide of momentum swept Robert E. Lee's army of Northern Virginia. This halted his invasion of Maryland. This allowed Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. -
Vicksburg
Victory for the Union that gave them control over the Mississippi river. The Union shut down confederate trade, transportation, and military. -
Gettysburg
The Confederates were winning the war, but the Union won this battle. The Union forces halted Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army. -
Appomattox Courthouse
The surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee to the Union commander Ulysses S. Grant.
