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Compromise of 1850
(no exact day of month) Attempt at compromise betweeen north and south states after disputes over land after mexican-american war. -
Bleeding kansas
(no exact date, began around 1854) Attacks on opposing sides between abolitionists and southerners. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Opened kansas and nebrasksa for settling, repealing missouri compromise. Determines that free or slave status of states would be determined by popular sovereignety. -
Dredd Scott Decision
Decision by supreme court that blacks are not American citizens and therefore could not sue in court. -
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Debates between electoral parties over which controlled illinois legislature. Slavery was main topic. -
Harpers Ferry
"Stonewall" Jackson's confederate troops take town of Harpers Ferry Maryland, (major supply garrison foe union) by the surrender of Dixon Miles union troops -
Lincolns Election
Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the U.S. -
Fort Sumter
First battle of the Civil War. Confederate army bombarded Major Robert Anderson's union troops at Charleston South Carolina -
Antietam
Union victory at battle of Antietam causes Lincoln's emancipation proclomation -
Emancipation Proclomation
Speech given by president Lincoln, stating that freeing slaves would be a goal of the civil war along with unifying the union. -
Battle at Gettysburg
Victory by Union troops which stopped General Lee's second invasion of the north. Bloodiest battle of the Civil War. 50,000 casualties. -
Gettysburg Adress
Hugely influential speech given by Lincoln, revisiting the topics of human equality stated in the declaration of independence and declaring the Civil War a "struggle for the preservation of the union" -
Andersonville Prison
prison for holding captive Union soldiers which had horrible living conditions -
Surreneder at Appomatox Courthouse
One of the last battles of the Civil War, Lees troops surrender to union forces after trying to retreat. -
Assassination of president Lincoln
Abraham Linclon is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford theatre in Washington D.C. -
Reconstruction
Rebuilding the south after a lot of destruction during civil war