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Missouri Compromise
Passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress -
Mexican War
War that Americans and Mexicans fought to gain territory to expand from Texas to California. -
Compromise of 1850
Laws admitting California as a free state, each to be determined by popular sovereignty, settling a Texas-New Mexico fugitive slave. -
Fugitive Slace Act
A pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Allowed an opening between Kansas and Nebraska resulting in slavery within each territory. -
Bleeding Kansas
Stated that the area could decide whether to be a free state or slave state. -
Brooks-Sumner Fight
Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner get into a cane fight because of a comment made about a slave mistress. -
John Brown's Harper's Ferry Raid
He was placed on trial and charged with treason against Virginia State. -
Election of 1860
Abraham supportedd slave expansion, but the democrats didn't -
South Carolina secedes from Union
Dissolved all connections between South Carolina & the U.S. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
An island famous for the siting of the first Civil War shots fired. -
Emancipation Proclamation
A scandal to make slaves believe that they would be saved, but truly weren't. -
Battle of Antietam
First battle of the war to be fought on northern soil. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The most important engagement of the Civil War -
The Union's Anaconda Plan
Blockade southern ports and thrust down the mississippi river valley with strong large union force. -
Sherman's March to the sea
Believed that the Civil War would end only if the Confederacy's strategic, economic, and psychological capacity for warfare were decisively broken -
Confederate Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
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Dred Scott Decision
Taken by his master from a slave state to a free states. He lost in his votes and was to remain a slave. Caused an uproar in the North and South leading to the Civil War.
