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Missouri Compromise
To preserve balance between slave and free states in congress, Missouri was emitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Anything over the 36,30' latitude line was free and anything under was slave. -
Nat Turner Slave Rebellion
Started in August 21, 1831. Nat Turner was a slave who rebelled against his masters. He failed and as a result harsher slavery laws were placed. -
Wilmot Proviso
Said that the new land acquired from Mexico would not be allowed to have slaves. South and North argued about this law and it was ultimately never passed. This law tried to pass multiple times but it would ultimately never pass. -
War with Mexico
It started on April 25th, 1846. It was a war with Mexico over the land in the west. US started and won the war resulting in gaining land from Mexico. -
Compromise of 1850
Decided on how to split up the new land from Mexico war. -
Fugitive Slave Act
A law that was passed with the Compromise of 1850. Said that the south can reclaim any slaves in the north. The south would also claim free men as slaves and bring them back to the plantation. One of the more controversial law passed. -
Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin
It's a book about Plantation life in the south. Opened the eyes to many in the North about how slaves were being treated in plantations, mainly women. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Territory act that created the states of Nebraska and Kansas. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott, a slave sued for his freedom, his case went up to the supreme court. The supreme court ruled that Scott could not sue for his freedom as he wasn't a citizen and also ruled the Missouri Comprise unconstitutional -
John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown thought that he was sent from God to destroy slavery at whatever means necessary. On the night of October 16th, 1859 John Brown and his men raided the arsenal in an attempt to get slaves to join their rebellion. Unfortunately no slaves arrived and by morning Brown was surrounded and captured. Brown was hanged for treason in the south while the north thought he should not have died. -
Abraham Lincoln elected President
Abraham Lincoln is elected president without any republican votes. South fears that Lincoln will ban slavery so they succeed from the Union. -
South Carolina secedes
South Carolina is the first state to leave the Union. 10 more states end up leaving the Union and formed the Confederacy. -
Bleeding Kansas
It started in 1855 over the issue of slavery. Kansas had elected to decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty by voting on it. When Kansas started voting people from Nebraska came into Kansas to influence the vote. -
Formation of the Confederate State of America
7 states met to make a separate country from the union. Before Lincoln was swore in 4 more states broke away from the union. Later on 2 more states joined the Confederacy. -
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Civil War
War between the North and the South primarily over the issue of Slavery -
Ft. Sumter
The first battle of the Civil War started when Confederate troops attacked Fort Sumter on April 12th 1861. Confederacy ended up winning the battle the next day. -
Antietam
Bloodiest battle in the Civil War. Robert E. Lee tried to invade the North with the momentum he had with the victory of the Second Battle of Bull's run. This was the North first invasion of the North and the North defended the invasion. -
Gettysburg
The battle of Gettysburg started in April 1st of 1863. The battle was the turning point of the war and the largest number of causalities in the war. -
Vicksburg
The battle of Vicksburg helped cemented the reputation of Ulysses S. Grant the Union general. The battle started on May 18th, 1863 -
Appomattox Courthouse
The end of the Civil War. Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant
