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Compromise of 1850
California was part of the union with the compromise. Also slavery trade was stopped in D.C. There was an amendment to the fugitive slave act. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act was a bill focused on popular sovereignty that allowed travelers to determine if slavery was going to be allowed in new states. It was proposed by Stephen Douglas. -
Bleeding Kansas
Men went into a town in Lawrence, Kansas and burned a hotel and burned the home of the governor. 200 people died and 2 million dollars of property was destroyed. -
The Dred Scott Decision
He gave a speech at the supreme court and there was a debate on slavery in the territories. The decision angered many people and caused tension for 4 years leading up to the Civil War. -
Lincoln- Douglas Debates
They criticized conflict over slavery and touched deeper question on things regarding to slavery. They basically set goals to acheive political objectives. -
Lincoln's Election
Lincoln was heavily supportive of the union and he was not for slavery. He was the president of the United States during the Civil War. -
Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter was initially a Union controlled area, until Confederate batteries opened fire on the fort for 34 hours. The Union eventually surrendered the fort to the Confederacy, with no deaths caused. This battle marked the beginning of the Civil War. -
Harpers Ferry
Robert E. Lee captured critical Union supplies at Harpers Ferry. They were attacked and Miles surrendered his supplies and 12,000 men -
Antietam
George McClellan launched many attacks against Robert E. Lee. Although many of them failed allowing Lee to launch counter attacks. This was the bloodiest single day battle in American history. -
Emancipation Proclamation
This was an order made by Abraham Lincoln. It freed slaves and allowed them to be part of the Union Army which therefore raised the Unions army and made them stronger. -
Gettysburg and Gettysburg Address
Is considered to be the biggest battle of the civil war. It was a huge win for the Unions who pushed Robert E. Lee's army into Pennsylvania. It was the bloodiest battle of the war and basically shut down Lee's hopes of battling far North. The Gettysburg Address was a speech given by Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1963, remembering the Unions Soldiers who died. -
Andersonville Prison
Andersonvile or Camp Sumter, was a prison camp used by the Confederacy to imprison Union soldiers. Over 45,000 soldiers were held here, and nearly 13,000 died from disease and poor conditions. Overcrowding was a huge problem in this prison, and was a main cause of death. -
Surrender at Appomattox Court House
General Robert E. Lee was the leader of the confederate army. He surrended to Ulysses Grant in front of the Appomattox courthouse. 28,000 troops went to grant. This event had quickly ended the Civil war. -
Reconstruction
Slavery was abolished following the recontruction era and under Andrew Jackson, there was a bill called "Black Codes" that controlled behavior of former slaves, -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theater, by the famous actor, (and Confederate sided) John Wilkes Booth. Following the assassination, the manhunt for Booth was one of the largest in history, with over 10,000 soldiers and law enforcement desperately trying to find the killer.
