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Compromise of 1850
Clay Worked to make a compromise that the North and the South could both accept. After the support of Massachusetts senator Daniel Webster he presented to the Senate. The compromise contained provisions to appease Northerners and Southerners, for the North California would be a free state and to please the South the compromise promised a new Fugitive slave law -
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe published her novel called Uncle Tom's Cabin, which expressed that slavery was not just a contest of politics, but also a great moral struggle.This story expressed her hatred of slavery and the book increase the protest of Northern Abolitionists, -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas And Nebraska territory both lay north of the Missouri Compromise, which made them legally closed to slavery. Stephen A. Douglas that would divide the two areas. Nebraska in the North and Kansas in the South. If passed the bill would repeal the Missouri Compromise and create popular sovereignty. -
"Bleeding Kansas"
Kansas has enough settlers to hold an election for a territorial legislature, but some "border ruffians" from the slave state of Missouri crossed into Kansas and voted illegally and won. A government was then set up at Lecompton and issued pro-slavery acts. Abolitionists organized a rival government in Topeka in the fall, which turned into bloody violence earning the name "bleeding Kansas" -
The Dred Scott Case
A major Supreme Court decision was brought about slave whose owner took him from the slave state of Missouri to free territory in Illinois and Wisconsin and back to Missouri.Scott appealed to the Supreme Court that living in a free state made him a free man. the case was in court for years but finally the court ruled against Dred Scott according to Scott lacked any legal standing to sue in federal court because he was not a citizen -
Harpers Ferry Raid
John Brown was studying slave uprising that had occurred in other countries. He believed the time was right for the United states. Brown led a prominent Northern Abolitionist, 21 men, black and white, into Harpers Ferry, Virginia. He wanted to seize the federal arsenal there and start a general slave rebellion. No such thing occurred and brown was put to death. The public reaction about Brown. This created Controversy for the North and South -
Lincoln is elected and Southern Secession
Republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln. Although he pledge to halt further spread of slavery, he tried to tell the Southerners that a Republican would not Interfere with their slaves or with them about slaves. Lincoln emerged as the winner with less than half the popular vote and with not electoral votes from the South, which he did not appear on their ballot. Hearing the news South Carolina decides to secede from the Union have other states follow. -
Confederacy
Delegates from the secessionist states met in Montgomery Alabama to form the Confederate States of America -
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis, senator of Mississippi was elected president of the Confederacy unanimously. -
Fort Sumter
Four southern forts remained in Union hands. was on an Island in Charleston Harbor. Lincoln did not abandon or reinforce the fort. he would send food for his men, until the confederacy started firing upon the fort starting the war. -
Battle Bull Run
Three months after Fort Sumter fell, just 25 miles away from D.C. the battle is the first confederate win and where Jackson got his nickname Stonewall Jackson. The Confederate moral soared. -
Antietam
After McClellan was drove out of Richmond be Robert E. Lee they clashed again. This clash was the Bloodiest in American History with casualties totaling 26,000, Instead of defeating the rest of the wounded confederates McClellan did nothing. So he was removed of command -
Battle Of Gettysburg
The Most decisive battle of the war was fought. Union commander John Budford commanded his men to take a defensive position on the hills. The battle lasted for 3 days with 23,000 union men dead and 28,000 confederate dead. This was the first Union win. -
Andrew Johnson
After Lincolns assassination, Johnson was the next in line to become president. Johnson being from the South let the south off very easy during Reconstruction. and not following Lincolns plan. -
Appomattox Court House
Union troops conquered Richmond, The confederate capitol. Lee and grant met a private home to arrange a Confederate surrender, where the terms were genours under Lincolns request.
