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Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was created to help free enslaved Africans by bringing them to Canada. It was a secret operation that went house to house. -
Compromise of 1850
Helped cause the civil war by dividing the free states(north) and the slave states (south) by drawing a line between the north and south. It also made new states slave free as long as there was a slave state with it. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
March 20, 1852 Uncle Tom's cabin is published by
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Over 300,00 copies sold in first year.
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Bleeding Kansas
Events caused by John Brown and his followers by raiding plantations in Kansas. Brown was later arrested and hung for vigilante justice. https://acwm.org/ -
Kansas-Nebraska act
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Dred Scott Decision
This decision by the U.S in Dred case allowed slave owners to take there slaves into western territories.
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Election of 1860
The election caused the civil war making Abraham Lincoln the president of the united states. After Lincoln was voted in the south seceded from the rest of the states. https://acwm.org/ -
Fort Sumter is fired upon
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Battle of Bull Run
Confederate armies go near Manassas
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Battle of Antietam
The deadliest battle in U.S history to date. Antietam was the first battle to fully use modern war tactics. It was the first battle that was won in the south. Fought in northern Virginia. -
Battle at Vicksburg
Northern general U.S. Grant forced a group of Confederate soldiers in the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. The siege started in the spring and ended at the end in summer. It was one of the first battles to use a modern navy to destroy the city. https://acwm.org/ -
Emancipation Proclamation
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reconstruction
The Union got a victory that allowed 4 million slaves thier freedom. The Black code was passed to control former slaves. Freedmen's Bureau and Civil Rights Bills was passed as well.
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South Surrenders
At Appomattox 1865 the South surrenders. General Robert E. Lee goes and meets Ulysses S. Grant and ends the meeting in a surrender. -
Lincoln's Assassination
At Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C, John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln as they were watching the play "Our American Cousin".
https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/abraham-lincoln-assassination
