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comprise of 1850
Admitting California as a free state, and cutting the Texas territory. Popular sovereignty In the Mexican Cession. -
Kansas- Nebraska Act
Kansas and Nebraska were created. It gave the people choice to be a slave state or a free state through popular sovereignty. Broke the Missouri Compromise of 1820 -
bull run/manassas
First major battle in the war. -
Fort Sumter
First shots fired in the war. -
Jefferson Davis
Was the president of the Confederacy. West point military academy. -
Antietam
The bloodiest battle in the war, and won by the north. -
Harper's Ferry
John Brown leads his sons into Harpers Ferry to try and steal guns. He wanted to create a uprising have the near by salves join him. Brown was executed for treason. -
Battle of Fredricksburg
Failed at taking over Richmond the capital. Unions lost the double as may as the Confederates did. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Declared all salves to be free but it didn't do much to the salves in the south has they were still under Confederate control. It did make them look weak. Lincoln views about getting the south back remained the same as before. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Lee marched his army to the north for his 2nd invasion. But General Joseph Hooker had his men in defense position this made the Confederates retreat or die. Between 46,000 and 51,000 soldiers from both armies were dead. -
Siege of Vicksburg
The take over the control of the Mississippi river and split the Confederates in half. 19,000 dead. it took 48 days but was on most successful. Union victory -
Gettysburg address
Lincoln wrote this to reunite the South and North. To honor all the people that died in the war. To save the nation become 1 whole again. -
13th Amendment
Freed all slaves in any part of America.
