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Compromise of 1850
This compromise prevented the union from splitting apart. -
Fugitive slave act
This act strengthened an earlier fugitive slave act, the earlier one was passed in 1793 -
The Kansas-Nebraska act
Douglas says that this act would "impart peace to the country and the union." -
Dred Scott decision
This decision was that he was not given a court right even though he was in a non-slave state and he was inslaved -
Lincoln and Douglas' intense arguments
Douglas attacked Lincoln saying that he supported racial equality, which was unpopular even in the north. -
John Brown's revolt
He led four of his sons and several other men to a proslavery settlement, there they killed 5 proslavery people. -
Democrats nominated John Breckenridge and Stephon Douglas
Both of these people were nominated because of the Northern and Southern democrats. -
Population
The North had a population of about 18.5 million people, of which about 3.8 million free men were of military age -
South Carolina's succession
South Carolina was the first state to succeed after receiving the votes -
Crittenden Plan
The federal government would have no power to abolish slavery in the states where it already existed -
Lincoln decided to send Union forces to seize Richmond
Lincoln first ordered General Irvin McDowell to attack the Confederate forces in Manassas -
The Nursing Effort
Dix led volunteer nurses in a march on Washington -
Blocking the Ports
His plan called for blocking Confederate ports along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts with Union warships -
Union troops are forced to evacuate
If the forces did not do these things the Confederate forces would take the stronghold by force -
Second Battle of the Bull Run
After driving General George McClellan and his troops back to Washington, D.C., General Robert E. Lee marched his men northward to battle again at Bull Run outside Manassas, Virginia -
Legal Tender Act
An act that replaced currencies of individual banks with one national currency -
Union and Confederate forces clashed
The region had some of the Confederacy’s most important assets, including New Orleans, -
Homestead Act
Set in motion a program of public land grants to small farmers. It provided that any adult citizen who headed a family could qualify for a grant of 160 acres of public land by paying a small registration fee and living on the land continuously for five years. -
Antietam
referred only to a creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland, but by sunset this day Antietam would become the name of one of the bloodiest battles ever fought on American soil -
Emancipation Proclamation
The final draft of the proclamation allowed the Union to accept freed slaves into its fighting forces -
Jones County Scouts
Other deserting soldiers and escaped slaves joined him, and by late 1863 is what made up this group -
Battle of Gettysburg
Approximately 90,000 for the Union and about 75,000 for the Confederates -
Gettysburg Address
Lincoln referred to the Declaration of Independence directly and to its ideas. His address reinforced the Declaration’s principles of equality and freedom for which the war was fought and for which so many died, and were still dying -
The Victor of Vicksburg
President Lincoln named Ulysses S. Grant, the victor of Vicksburg, as commanding general of the Union Army -
Low Wages
African-American soldiers received lower wages than most white soldiers until June 1864, -
Elmira Prison Camp
Even though it was set up for 6,000 men, more than 10,000 arrived -
Lincolns speech
Lincoln did not speak of happiness, nor did he gloat about the South’s impending defeat. Instead, he spoke about his sadness over the loss of life during the war -
Freedoms Bureau
This helped the formerly enslaved just as much as white southerners -
Meeting with Lincoln
Alexander Stephens goal was to negotiate peace and bring the war to an end -
Lincoln's death
He was assented by John Wilkes Booth and was buried on May 4, 1865 -
Civil Rights Act of 1866
The bill granted full equality and citizenship to all races -
Klu Klux Klan
This was the changing of ideas in these types of peoples minds