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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. -
Abraham Lincoln elected president
the first Republican, receiving 180 of 303 possible electoral votes and 40 percent of the popular vote. -
Battle of Bull run
2,896 men killed from the north and 1,982 men killed in the south. enlisted 500,000 men in the union to protect Washington D.C -
little lincoln dies
President Lincoln is struck with grief as his beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, dies from fever, probably caused by polluted drinking water in the White House. -
battle of Shiloh
the 9th bloodiest battles of the entire civil war. more men died in this battle than any in the war of 1812. -
battle of antietam
extremely crucial victory for the north -
emancipation proclamation
a decree freeing all enslaved persons in states still in rebellion after January 1st 1863 -
Vicksburg
union fights to control the Mississippi river -
Battle of gettysburg
confederates push the union army way back
the union army holds their line
general E Lee makes a mistake -
Pickets charge
7,000 confederate men dead in 30 minutes and failed to break the unions line -
Sherman's march
William Tecumseh Sherman scorches his way to Atalanta burns everything in his path burns fear into the southerners. -
thirteenth amendment
Bans slavery forever in the united states -
Appomattox Courthouse
lee surrenders to grant ending the war
generous terms no treason, take food and horses with you. -
command of the army act
all military commands approved by Ulysses S. Grant -
Tenure of office act
senate can review/ remove any official appointed by Johnson -
Military Reconstruction act
divide former confederacy into 5 military districts. strict requirements to be readmitted to the union. ratify 14th amendment -
Ulysses S. Grant becomes president
great general... bad politician
left politics to congress divided the republican party, ruined reconstruction -
President Johnson Impeached
The U.S. House of Representatives votes 11 articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson, nine of which cite Johnson's removal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, a violation of the Tenure of Office Act. The House vote made President Johnson the first president to be impeached in U.S. history -
Fifteenth Amendment
the right to vote shall not be denied on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude -
panic of 1873
banks go bankrupt set off-on depression southern democrats regain power in the house and senate
