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California Gold rush
California off balanced the Missouri compromise. Government chose to not pick weather it was a free or slave state. Both sides were angry. -
Compromise of 1850
California admitted as a free state. Slave actions banned in Washington DC. Fugitive slave act- made tougher punishments for slaves who ran away. Texas receives 10 million dollars so that they wouldn't promote slavery. -
John Browns ¨ Gods Executioner¨
John Brown came into southern states and murder pro-slave supporters. https://www.biography.com/people/john-brown-9228496 -
Dred Scott
He went to the supreme court to sue the pants of his owner for bringing him back to slavery -
Secession
South Carolina withdraws form the union. Over the next six weeks, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, And Texas follow. North Carolina was the last state to secede and join the Confederacy. -
Founding the Confederacy
They Guaranteed slaves in every state.
Banned Tariffs.
One president every 6 years. -
Fort Sumter
Vital United States military base in South Carolina.
Battle over food.
Seen as an act of war. -
Battle of Bull Run
Happens 25 Miles from Washington D.C.
Northern Dead: 2,896
Southerners Dead: 1,982
Because the fear of southerners marching strait to Washington D.C. 500,000 men were enlisted.
The onlookers were scared...... -
Battle of Shiloh
The fist major battle in the west (Mississippi River kind of west).
23,000 people dead. North won the battle but after a long fight.
Only the 9th bloodiest battle in the civil war. -
Battle of Antietam
The Bloodiest day of American history.
Lee kills 22,000 men in one day.
Abraham Lincoln fired General George McClellan. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Freeing all enslaved persons in the south. Not in all of amarica but just the ´states in rebellion´ -
Vicksburg base
Union fights to control Mississippi River.
Under siege for 3 months, the confederates are starving. -
Gettysburg Battle
Robert E. Lee needs shoes so he goes up north and meets General George Meade. Three days of fighting.
They charge the Union army and die 7,000 confederate dead in 30 minutes. -
Shermans march
William Tecumseh Sherman burns his way through Atalanta to savanna. -
freedmans bureau
Gave food and clothing to them. Helped them get jobs and get on there feet. Not a lot of people like this because its giving the ´black man´ the opportunity. -
The 13th Amendment
Bans slavery for good -
Lincoln gets assassinated
John booth slips in and murders Lincoln -
The 14th Amendment
Grants citizen ship to all people born in the united states
Grants equal protection under the law. -
Panic of 1873
Banks go bankrupt
set of a full-on depression
southern democrats regain power in the house . -
Compromise of 1877
Hayes removes troops form the south- to become president?
ready to end reconstruction
