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Free-Soil Party
Party wanted to stop the expansion of slavery anywhere else and into Oregon or into the Mexican Cession. Wanted slavery to stay in the territories where it already exsited and not spread. -
Fugitive Slave Act
Was put in order by the Compromise of 1850 which stated that no one could help runaway slaves and allowed the capture of black slaves inorder to return them to their white owners. -
Compromise of 1850
Were a series of resolutions proposed by Henery Clay that created the Fugative Slave Act, banned slave trade in D.C, and allowed California to enter as a free state. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin Published
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe which illistrated a story of a black slave's tale of the harshment and cruelty he suffered. Her novel had changed societies moral views towards slavery in the South. -
Kansas and Nebraska Act
Was proposed by Stephen Douglas. It repealed the Missouri Compromise by allowing popular sovereignty to decide whether they should allow slavery in their territories. -
Dred Scott v. Standford
Was a Supreme Court Case which it ruled against Scott's when he tried to sue for freedom on a free state. Led to the idea and justification that slaves are not citizens but white owners property nomatter where they are. North was against this assumtion. Was also an issue that Lincoln debated with Douglas in 1858. -
Lincoln and Douglass Debate
Where a series of 7 debates acrooss Illinois from August to October. Douglass had won the debate which led him to win the Senate Office. Even though Lincoln had lost the debates his arguments had gave him respect and repersentation from the Republicans to later win the elections 1860 Presidential Elections. -
John Brown raids Harpers Ferry
Brown was an abolitionist who hoped by raiding the local arsenal that local slaves and freedom helpers would come aid his fight but that was not the case. He was soon cought by general Robert E. Lee and on December sentenced to be hanged. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
South Carolina troops fire at the Federal Arsenal at Fort Sumter. Civil War begins! -
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Civil War!!
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Battle of Antietam
Lee invades North and is stopped forced to retreat back to Virginia. Bloodiest battle of the Civil War. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln publishes doctrine freeing enslaved African Americans throughout the United States. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Major Union victory which contained a large number of casualties causing a major turning point ending Lee's invasion upon the North. -
Andrew Johnson becomes president :)
after abraham lincoln was shot and killed Johnson became president and he announses his plan of presidencial reconstruction. (1865-7) -
Black men vote in DC
this was the overriding president johnson's veto and congress grants black male citzens in the district of colombia to vote. -
Freedmen's Bureau
Aid former slaves in introducing them to their new form of life under the emancipation proclamation. -
General Lee surrenders to Grant's Forces at Appomattox, Virginia
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Black Codes First Passed In Mississippi!
Placed restrictions based upon former slave's freedom, forbid blacks to testify against whites, and blacks can't serve on juries, bear arms, or hold largemeetings. -
The k.k.k
an orginization comnposed of confederate army veterans founds the Ku Klux Klan with is a group mainly formed to intinmidate blacks. it was orginized in the south. -
First Reconstruction Act
For a temporary amount of time the South is placed under military rule in five separated districts. -
Radical Reconstruction Acts
congress passed the first series of reconstucion acts (military, command of the army, and Tenure of office. -
Tenure of Office Act
johnson intentionally violates the Tenure of Office Act when he suspects Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton and replaces him with General Ulysses S. Grant during a congressional recess. the Senate refuses to confirm the action, grant returns the office to Stanton, but the president names Gen. lorenzo Thomas to the post instead. impeachement follows prcceedings follow in 1868..... -
impeachment of Andrew Johnson :)
johnson would veto every bill that tried to give blacks rights.Also people in congress that supported the radicals. -
Grant Elected President
18th president of the United States. After successfully being the Union's general he becomes president representing the Radical Republicans. -
14th Amendment Ratified
Full citizenship to blacks and rights are protected by Federal Government -
15th Amendment Ratified
Granted African American men the right to vote and cnnot be denied based on color, race, or previous condition of servitude. -
Civil Rights Act of 1875
All citizens cannot be denied public faclities no matter the basis of their skin color. -
Plessy v. Ferguson Case
Plessy was charged for violating the 1890 Louisiana statute that provided for segregation and kept every man of color away from the whites.
