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Underground Railroad
Secret network of houses used for transporting slaves into the North
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Compromise of 1850
A series of resolutions set to prevent fighting between the North and South to break out. The slave trade was abolished, and the Fugitive Slave Act was amended. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Act passed in 1854 which allowed for the states of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether they want slaves in their state or not. -
Dred Scott Decision
A Supreme Court case that ruled Dred Scott not free due to the fact that he used to be a slave, even though he moved into the free states.
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Secession of the Southern States
States in the Southern United States began declaring their independence after Lincoln was elected president. -
Election of 1860
Presidential Election of 1860 in which Abraham Lincoln won against three other opponents; John C. Breckinridge, Stephen Douglas, and John Bell. -
Battle at Bull Run
The first battle at Bull Run was known as the first major battle of the Civil War. It ended in Confederate victory. -
Battle of Antietam
Known as the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, the battle of Antietam ended in victory for the Union and helped Lincoln begin the process of issuing his Emancipation Proclamation. -
Seven Days' Battle
A series of six major battles ear Richmond Virginia, resulting in Confederate victory. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln establishes a proclamation that deems all slaves in the rebelling Confederate states free.
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Battle at Vicksburg
Union General Ulysses S. Grant marched his troops across the Mississippi River and drove out Confederate forces. -
Battle at Gettysburg
General Robert E. Lee invaded the South and won a smashing victory over Union forces, allowing him to further march into the North. This is an image of Abraham Lincoln's iconic Gettysburg Address, written in 1863. -
South Surrenders
General Robert E. Lee surrenders to the Union at Appomattox. This image was taken at the surrender in 1865. https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2015/spring/cw-surrenders.html -
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Reconstruction
After all the destruction caused from fighting in the war, the North and South worked to rebuild all buildings, railroads, and anything else demolished in the events of the war. -
Lincoln's Assassination
President Abraham Lincoln gets shot by John Wilkes Booth while watching a play in Ford's Theater. Lincoln dies the next morning.
