Civil War

Missouri Compromise

Oct 12, 1820

These agreements made Maine a free state and Missouri as a slave state. A dividing line was set at 36,30 north latitude. South of line slavery was permtted. In the North, not permitted.

San Felipe De Austin

Oct 12, 1821

After Mexico won the War against Spain, they offered land to Americans.Stephen F. Austin established a colony to make it free from sins.

The Liberator

Oct 12, 1828

William Lloyd Garrison established his own paper to deilver an uncompromising demand, immediate emancipation.

Mexico abolishes slavery

Oct 12, 1829

Mexicans abolished slavery in 1829, insisted in vain that the Texans free their slaves too. There we're differences between cultures.

Santa Fe Trail

Oct 12, 1830

Stretched from Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico. One of the busiest routes.

Nat Turner's Rebellion

Oct 12, 1831

Him and more than 50 slaves attacked four plantations and killed about 60 whites. Whites eventually captured the rebellion and executed them

Stephen F. Austin goes to jail

Oct 12, 1833

Austin jailed to inciting revolution in 1833.

Texas Revolution

Oct 12, 1833

Revolution that America got independece from Mexico.

Oregon Trail

Oct 12, 1836

Stretched from Missouri to Oregon City. First travelers We're two Methodist missionaries. They proved wagons could travel on the Oregon Trail.

Manifest Destiny

Oct 12, 1840

Belief that U.S was ordained to move westward and it was obvious and inevitable.

Abolition

Oct 12, 1840

The movement to abolish slavery, became the most important of a series of reform movements in America.

Texas enters the United States

Oct 12, 1844

The South annexed Texas and made it a slave state.

Mexican-American War

Oct 12, 1846

A two year war on the fight for Mexican land. Ended with the treaty of Hidalgo, which set boundaries to what we have today.

The North Star

Oct 12, 1847

Fredrick Douglass escaped slavery and wrote his own paper, That guided runaway slaves to freedom 1847.

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Oct 12, 1848

Mexico agreed to the Rio Grande as the border between Texas and Mexico and ceded the New Mexco and California territories to the United States.

Harriet Tubman

Oct 12, 1849

One of the most famous conductors. She helped 300 slaves including her own parents, flee to freedom.

Compromise of 1850

Oct 12, 1850

Henry Clay attempted to compromise and avert a potential crisis against the North and South.

Fugutive Slave Act

Oct 12, 1850

Made slave trade illegal in Washington D.C.

Battle of Antietam

Oct 12, 1850

The Bloodiest battle in American History with 26,000 dead. The Confederates retreated after the war, the Union general did nothing.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Oct 12, 1852

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which stressed that slavery was not just a political contest, but also a great moral struggle.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Oct 12, 1854

Steohen Douglas:Conflict between Nebraska being a free or slave state. Kansas became a slave state

Dread Scott v. Sandford

Oct 12, 1854

Dread Scott was a free slave brought back to the south as a slave, Sued because he was living in free territory. Appealed to the supreme court.

Underground Railroad

Oct 12, 1855

Harriet Tubman, provided with secret tunnels, fake hiding places, food, water.

Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas Debates

Oct 12, 1858

Neither wanted slavery but but they disagreed on hot to keep it out. Douglas won the senate seat, Republicans looked to Lincoln as a candidate for presidency.

John Brown's Raid/Harper's Ferry

Oct 12, 1859

Raided Virginia's arsenal, captured it with the hope of the slaves joining him, but they didnt.

Formation of the Confederacy

Oct 12, 1860

The south seceded from the United States and called themselves the Confederacy. Protected and recognized slavery in the South.

Abraham Lincoln becomes President

Oct 12, 1860

Pledged to halt the further spread of slavery, also tried to reassure Sputhereners that a Republican administration would not interfere with their slaves. Many southereners viewed him as an enemy.

Attack on Fort Sumter

Mar 12, 1861

On an island in Charleston harbor, South tried to seize federal installations, forts. Lincoln sent food. The deadly struggle against the North and South was under way.

Consciption

Oct 12, 1863

A draft that forced men to serve in the army.

Battle of Gettysburg

Oct 12, 1863

50000 troops died. A complex war over Gettysburg and ended witha Northern win.

Gettysburg Address

Oct 12, 1863

Lincoln, "remade america". A speech that helped the country to realize that it was not just a collection of individual states; it was one unified nation.

Battle of Vicksburg

Oct 12, 1863

Union General Ulysses S. Grant fought to take one of the two remaining Confederate Strongholds on the Missiippi river.

Emancipation Proclamation

Oct 12, 1863

Lincoln in 1863 issued the Proclamation to capture national attention. It said "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."

Battle of Bull Run

Oct 12, 1864

A little creek just 25 miles away from D.C, Confederates won and thought the war was over, they went home exhausted

Income Tax

Oct 12, 1864

A tax that takes a specified perentage of an individual's income.

Sherman's March

Oct 12, 1864

Burned every house on his way to the sea. He wanted to make the southerners so sick of war. Sherman and 25000 slaves turned to the North to help Grant.

Surrender at Appomattox Court House

Oct 12, 1865

Lee and Grant in Virginia arranged to a Confederate surrender. Within a month, Confederate resistance collapsed. After 4 years, the war was over.

Thirteenth Amendment

Oct 12, 1865

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted shall exist with the United States.

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Oct 12, 1865

John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln and shot him in the head. He was shot dead after he was found in a tobacco field.