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Fugitive Slave Law
The fugitive slave law was passed which said that runaway slaves that are caught in the north will be returned to their owners in the south. This started the unrest between the north and south. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Popular sovereignty decides if a new state would be a free or slave state. -
Bleeding Kansas
Violent fighting broke out between the abolitionists and the southern slave owners in Kansas. -
Scott vs. Sanford
Scott was a slave who lived in various free states before going back with his owner to Missouri and sued for his freedom saying that he lived in free states. The US Supreme Court ruled against Scott. -
Raid on Harper's Ferry
John Brown an abolitionist who fought in Bleeding Kansas led a raid on a federal armory in Harper's Ferry, Virginia that failed. Brown was captured and executed. -
Goodbye South Carolina
After the election of Lincoln to office South Carolina seceded from the Union. -
Confederate States of America
Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida seceded following South Carolina and then joined together to make the Confederate States of America. -
The Beginning of the War
The Confederate forces opened fire on Fort Sumter to officially start the civil war. -
Freedman's Bureau
Congress opened offices in the south that gave out clothes, food, and medicine to the newly freed slaves. -
Surrender
General Robert E Lee surrendered his army at the Appomattox and declared the civil war officially over. -
Reconstruction
The rebuilding and healing of the country after war began and the Union was whole again. -
Assassination
President Lincoln was shot in the back of the head by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater and died in a house across the street the following morning. -
14th Amendment
Congress pushed for equal rights and over road Johnson's veto and the 14th amendment which states that the states had to provide equal rights to all people no matter their race. -
15th Amendment
Amendment that granted all men the right to vote. -
End of the Reconstruction
The Union soldiers left the south to signify the end of the reconstruction of the United States.
