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Missouri Compromise
This compromise was meant to admit Maine as a free state and Missuori as a free state. During the compromise slavery was prohibited North latitude 36 degrees 30. The compromise the balance between slaves states and free states. -
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Compromise of 1850
The 1850 compromise allowd California to enter the union as a free state.The compromise enacted the Figtive state law required free states to return escape slave to their owner -
Kansas/Nebraska Act
The Kansas/Nebraska Act tore the Whig Party apart and divided the Nation in half over the issue of slavery and repealed the Missouri Act . -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott 's owner moved from a slave state to a free state. He wanted his freedom so he took it to court and they denied his rights to sue the federal court and congress couln't band slavery from American's territory. -
Election of 1860
The country was in deadlock over the future the future slavery which was the boiling point. Abrahm Lincoln won who was against slavery. -
Union Blockade
The blockade is was to prevent all ships from entering or leavig southern ports. The union also wanted to keep the south from gaining weapons and supplies. -
Beginning of the Civil War
the Confereates opened fire on Fort Sumter (Charleston, South Carolina) .The Union surrendered and the Conferates raised a new flag "Stars and Bars" . -
Emancipation Proclomation
this announcement was made by President Lincoln during the Civil War on September 22, 1862. It proclaimed all those enslaved in Confederate territory to be forever free, and ordered the Army to treat as free all those enslaved in ten states that were still in rebellion, thus applying to 3.1 million of the 4 million slaves in the U.S -
Batte of Antietam
This battle was located in Sharpsburg, Maryland on Antietam Creek. it was the bloodiest sinle day war. both the Confederates and Union were shock about the number of deaths.they ralize that the battle was too long and brutal. -
Battle of Gettysburg
This Battle was located in Gettysburg, Pennsylivania. It was the bloodiest 3 day war of the civil war and the turning point of the war. The Union won this war -
Battle of Chickamauga
This war was locatedaround on the Georgia and Tennessee border.The confederates won and stopped the Union from advancing in Georgia. the battle was costly and claimed 34,624 deaths. -
Sherman's March to the Sea
The march went through Georgia from November 15, 1864 - December 21,1864. Sherman's troops went from Atlanta, GA to the port of Savannah. The purpose of this “March to the Sea” was to frighten Georgia’s civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause. -
Appomattox Court House
On April 9, 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his approximately 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in the front parlor of Wilmer McLean's home in Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War (1861-65). -
End of the Civil War
