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Compromise of 1850
Wrote by Henry Clay:
1) California admitted as free state
2) New Mexico and Utah could decide if they wanted to be free state or proslavery states
3) No permission of sales of slaves in Washington D.C.
4) Texas would give up claim to New Mexico territory
5) Passed Fugitive Slaves Act- required citizens to apprehend runaway slaves -
Bleeding Kansas
Kansas-Nebraska Act:
1) Popular sovereignty: common people have the right to decide for the state about slavery.\
2) Territory divided in 2 states: Kansas and Nebraska. In 1855 were estabilshed 2 capitals. -
Republican Party
It was founded the Republican party, which was against slavery. -
Dread Scott decision
Dread Scott was a slave who went with his owner for a work trip in a free slaves state, so he pretended to be free. Trail dured years, at the end the Chief Justice Roger Taney said: "Slaves were private property and thus no decision needs to be made". Scott didn`t won because of the 5th Amendment which, protect private property, including slaves. This decision permitted and guaranteed slavery. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Abraham Lincoln and Stephan Douglas made many debates during the 1858 for the senate seat; one of the pricipal point of those debates was the slavery issue. For the first time slavery was defined immoeral by Abraham Lincoln. -
Lincoln`s Election
Lincoln won with less than a half of the popular vote, he won every electoral vote from the North bot none from the Sout -
South Outraged
After Lincoln's election, South Carolina leaves the union and consequently six other states leave the union. -
A New Country
The South formed the Confederate States of America, chose a new capital: Montgomery, Alabama. As president of the CSA was elected Jefferosn Davis, from Mississippi. -
First Shot
The First shot of the Civil war was at Fort Sumter, when Davis ordered to the CSA army to take the fort from the Union. At the end of the day the fort was of the Confederate. -
Bull Run
CSA defeats the Union thanks to the commander Stonewall Jackeson -
Conscription
Both sides need mor men, so they made compulsory the army for men. First the CSA, April 1862, and after the Union, March 1863. -
First submarines battle
Monitor (Union) and Merrimack (CSA), were the first two submarines to affor a battle. This battle didn't change anything in the war between North and South, but it changed forever the way to build sheeps. -
Battle of Shiloh
Grant and Buell, Generals of the Union, defeated Lee's army. More than 25,000 men killed. This battle was the most bloody one in all the civil war. -
Battle of Antietman
Lee ivaded for the first time the North but lost too many men, also he won, had to go back in the south. Over 23,000 deads. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln freed all the enslaved people in the North and in the South. This move, politically, mad impossible to the CSA to create an alliance with an European state. -
Battle of Chancellorsville
It was Lee greatest victory, but during this battle Jackson was shot, so it caused als the worst lost for Lee. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Also kown as the "Turning Point". Lee was searching for supplies, the battle was fought for 3 days and won by the Union. After the end of the battle Lincoln made his most famose sppech: the "Gettysburg Address", which gave to the nation the strenght to finsh the war. -
Battle of Vicksburg
after days of siege, General Grant took the city of Vicksburg, dividing the south in half. -
Sherman's March to the Sea
The Union's Commander Sherman became a real terrosist in the south. During his march from Atlanta to Savannah he burnt every city long his path. Fist time that the population become a target. -
South Sourrending
Lee sourrendered to Grant at Appomatattox Court House, ending in this way the Civil War. -
Lincoln's Death
Five days after the end of the war, John Wikes Booth fired Lincoln's behind the head during a comedy at the theatre. -
13th Amendment
Formally abolishing slavery in the United States.
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." -
Johnson's Plan
1) Abolish slavery (mainly because it was unavoidable)
2) Take land from the richest ones and give them to the poor WHITES, he didn't belive in the equality between black people and white people. -
1868 Election
The war's hero Grant won the election. -
14th Amendment
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. -
15th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
