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Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Tom's Cabin
Northerners don't like southern slavery, and southerners are really variable in their treatment of slaves. The North benefits from slavery even though they don't have slaves. -
The dred Scott Decision
In the North the anti-slavery leaders cited the supreme courts decision to prove that the South wanted to extend slavery. The Southerners approved the Dred Scott decision because they thought congress had no right to have slavery prohibited in their territories. -
The Raid on Harper's Ferry
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry was an incident in the march toward the civil war and it erupted a year and a half later. -
Election of Abrham Lincoln
The South thought that Lincoln becoming president it was unconstitutional because he got plurality of the votes and not majority. -
Fort Sumter
South Carolina told the surrender of the Union of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor and the Garrison commander Anderson refused to. -
Battle of Shiloh
The commander was forced to give up Kentucky and much of West and Middle Tennessee. He chose a major transportation center for an offensive against Maj. -
Emanciption Proclamation
The Emncipation Proclmation granted freedom to all slaves in all areas of the Confederacy still in rebellion. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Before the battle major cities in the North such as Philadelphia, washington, and baltimore were under attack from General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and they crossed the Potomac River and marched into Pennsylvania. -
Battle of Wilderness
The battle of Grant’s was offensive against the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia known as the Overland Campaign was fought at the Wilderness. -
Battle of five forks
Robert E. Lee ordered Pickett with his infantry division and Rosser’s cavalry to hold the crossroads of Five Forks at all hazard. -
Apponattox courthouse
Gen. Robert E. Lee tried to make an attempt to escape the closing Union pincers and get his supplies at Lynchburg. -
10% plan
Lincoln’s plans included the Ten-Percent Plan and it allowed each Southern state to be readmitted to the Union once ten percent of the voters swore an oath to the Union.
