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Missouri Compromise
Allowed the north to be free states and the south to be slave states -
California gold rush
people began moving to California making it a state bringing fear to the south of it possibly come a free slave state -
compromise of 1850
admitted California as a free state -
bleeding Kansas
pro and anti slavery supporters flood into Kansas on voting day. only 2,900 registered voters but there was 6000 votes causing it to expel anti-slavery supporters. John brown(GOD'S EXECUTOR) entered and killed pro-slavery supporters. -
sessions and war
South Carolina votes to withdraw from the nation -
battle of bull run
the first battle in the civil war
horrific bloody battle -
founding the confederacy
the confederate states become an independent republic. Jefferson Davis chosen for president -
Fort Sumter
Lincoln send goods to his troops but Davis sees it as supplying his troops so he demands war -
Battle of Shiloh
confederates launch a surprise attack on Grant. 23,00 people were dead in the 2 days of the battle. Massive and tragic war for american society.the 9th bloodiest battle of the entire war. -
Battle of Antientam
bloodiest day in American history. Lee pushes into the north fights union general George McClellan. Lee kills 22,00 men in one day then retreats because of so many casualties. -
Emancipation Proclamation
A decree freeing all enslaved persons in states -
Vicksburg
Union fights to control the Mississippi river -
Gettysburg adress
Abraham gave a speech -
Gettysburg
3 days of the most brutal, awful fighting
Union casualties: 23,00
con federates casualties: 28,000(1/3 of Lee's entire Army)
*Gettysburg address -
Freedmans Bureau
feeding and clothing war refugees and helped find work for formerly enslaved people -
Thirteenth Amendment
bans slavery forever -
Appomattox Courthouse
Lee surrenders to grant, ending the war -
Fords theater
Abraham Lincoln gets shot in the head -
civil rights act of 1866
grants citizenship to all persons born in the united states -
Sherman's march
William Sherman scorches his way Atlanta burning everything
