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Civil War
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California Gold Rush
Gold was found and everyone goes here wanting a piece of that action -
Compromise of 1850
5 parts that made helping slaves escape more punishable, added a free state,banned slave auctions in D.C., slaves voted on in new land -
Fugitive Slave Act
Increased tensions between North and South over slavery -
Dred Scott V. Sanford
Dred Scott challenges slavery by the supreme court. This lead to the decision that the government couldn't control slavery -
John Brown Raids the Armory
John Brown attacked Harper's Ferry in order to create a rebellion. Unfortunately no slaves joined which led to his capture -
South Carolina Succeeds
South Carolina is the first to leave the union -
Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America are founded -
Battle of Bull Run
One of the first battles where the North and the South fought -
Battle of Shiloh
Surprise attack launched against Ulysses S. Grant which resulted in the 9th bloodiest battle of the Civil War with 23,000 people killed in 2 days -
Battle of Antietam
Robert E. Lee invades the North but retreats after he sees how many people he killed. 22,000 in one day -
Emancipation Proclomation
An act freeing all enslaved people in all confederate states -
Battle of Vicksburg
Union fights to control Mississippi river -
Battle of Gettysburg
3 day fight that was some of the most brutal during the entire war -
Sherman's March
William Tecumseh Sherman burns everything on his was to Atlanta to make Southerners understand the horrors of war -
Freedman's Bureau
African Americans are given education, are helped finding work, and providing food. "40 acres and a mule" -
Slavery Banned
Slavery was now illegal -
Lincoln Assassination
Lincoln was assassinated at Fords Theater -
Military Reconstruction Act
South divided into 5 districts and controlled by military -
14th Amendment
Equal protection under law and grants citizenship to anyone born in U.S. -
15th Amendment
Hundreds of thousands African Americans can now vote
