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Missouri Compromise
declared missouri as a slave state and maine as a free state -
Nat Turner Slave Rebellion
rebellion of slaves, rebels killed 55-65 people -
Wilmot Proviso
Proposal to keep all of the mexican territory from being free states, but was unsuccessful. -
War with Mexico
Dispute over texas and mexican border -
Compromise of 1850
Laws passed that dealt with slavery and territorial expansion -
Fugitive Slave Act
Act that required runaway slaves to be returned to their owners -
Publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Book about what it was like to be a slave working in the fields. -
Antietam
Gave Abraham Lincoln the opportunity to announce the Emancipation Proclamation. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Law that used popular sovereignty to determine whether states could have slavery or not. -
Bleeding Kansas
Several violent civil confrontations in Kansas -
Dred Scott Decision
dred scott was not allowed to sue because he was a slave -
John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown tried to lead a slave rebellion though no slaves joined him, northerners saw him as a hero Southerners saw him as a terrorist. -
Abraham Lincoln elected president
Abraham won election without a single southern vote -
Formation of the Confederate State of America
representatives from 6 seceded states established a unified government -
South Carolina secedes
Secedes from union, didn't want to be a slave state -
Fort Sumter
Union forces surrender fort sumter during this battle -
Gettysburg
Union victory, bloodiest battle of the civil war -
Vicksburg
Union got control of the Mississippi river -
Appomattox Courthouse
Confederate General Robert E Lee surrenders his army to General Ulysses S. Grant
