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Missouri Compromise
an agreement in 1820 between proslavery and antislavery factions in the United States concerning the extension of slavery into new territories -
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Compromise of 1850
was a package of five bills passed in the United States in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American war (1846–1848). The compromise, drafted by Whig Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky and brokered by Clay and Democrat Stephen Douglas, avoided Secession or civil war and reduced sectional conflict for four years. -
Bleeding Kansas
a term used to describe the time there was violence while settling Kansas -
Kansas Nebraska Act
created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory -
John Brown Raid
was an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
Election of 1860
the 19th quadrennial presidential election. The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860 and served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War. -
Jefferson Davis' Farewell Adress
Jefferson Davis gave. a "farewell" because he was no longer the president of the confederacy. -
Inauguration of Lincoln
the day that Lincoln was inaugurated and turned into president -
Fort Sumter
it is best known for being the site where the shots that started the Civil War were fired, at the Battle of Fort Sumter -
Emancipation Proclamation
This proclamation made by Abraham Lincoln, said that all slaves in The Confederacy would be free. -
Battle of Vicksburg
a decisive battle in the American Civil War; after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered -
Battle Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg is the greatest battle in the American Civil War, it is considered the “turning point” in the Civil War -
Gettysburg Adress
the speech made by President Lincoln at the dedication of the national cemetery on the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg -
Sherman's March to the Sea
Sherman's March to the sea is the name commonly given to the military Savannah Campaign in the American Civil War, conducted through Georgia from November 15 to December 21, 1864 by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army. -
Appomattox Court House
A village in Virginia where General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant in April 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War. -
Assassination of Abe Lincoln
Shortly after 10 p.m. on April 14, 1865, actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C., and fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln. As Lincoln slumped forward in his seat, Booth leapt onto the stage and escaped through the back door. A doctor in the audience rushed over to examine the paralyzed president. Lincoln was then carried across the street to Petersen's Boarding House, where he died early the next morning. -
Battle of Palmito Ranch
it was shortly after the end of the Civil War. It was the last major clash of arms of the war.
