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Missouri Compromise
Effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states making Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state -
Nat Turner Slave Rebellion
An enslaved man who led a rebellion of enslaved people. This led to a massacre of up to 200 black people and prohibiting the education of slaves. -
War with Mexico
The first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil. -
Wilmot Proviso
Unsuccessful proposal to
ban slavery in the land
acquired from Mexico. -
Compromise of 1850
Laws passed to deal with
slavery and territory
expansion. -
Fugitive Slave Act
Slaves were required to be returned to their owners even if they were in a free state. -
Publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
story published to open the eyes of people in the north. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Created the states of Kansas and Nebraska and allowed them to decided for either slaves or free -
Bleeding Kansas
fight caused from the
debate weather or not to
allow slavery. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a slave that sued for his freedom but was not successful and claimed he was not a citizen. -
John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry
He took over a arsenal and wanted to start a slave revolt to free . -
Abraham Lincoln elected president
was a four way contest and Lincoln was apart of the
republican party -
South Carolina secedes
They were not happy with Lincoln as president and became the first slave state to secede -
Formation of the Confederate State of America
The
states did not like The
election of Lincoln so
they seceded and
created their own
country. -
Fort Sumter
First battle of the Civil War was fought here -
Antietam
the Confederate invasion of Maryland an advance that was regarded as one of the greatest Confederate threats to Washington, D.C. -
Vicksburg
a decisive Union victory that divided the confederacy. -
Gettysburg
considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. The confederate won. -
Appomattox Courthouse
the surrender of the confederate and the end of the nation's largest war.
