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The 3/5 Compromise
The 3/5th Compromise was an agreement with the Southern and Northern states in the United States. This was a Compromise that 3/5ths of the slaves in the South would be counted as the population instead of as property. The North did not like this promise too much because they was afraidthat the South would end up gaining more power. James Wilson and Roger Sherman were the two representatives that came up with the 3/5th compromise. -
The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was established by the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives. The main idea was to keep the power between the free states (North) and the slaveholding states (South) balanced. The South feared that the North was going to over power them and take over their land and ruin their trade. -
The Nat Turner Rebellion
The Nat Turner Rebellion was led/started by a slave named Nat Turner. This rebellion happened in Southhampton County, Virginia. Nat Turner had a group of people follow and killed about sixty white men, women, and children in the South. Nat Turner was finally captured with 16 others and was executed. People say that even though he was dead that the incident continued to haunt Southern whites. Black people was randomly killed and beheaded and they left their heads in the streets to warn others. -
The Fugitive Slave Act
Mainly this Act was started for the slave owners, so they could get their slaves back when they ran away. This Act made it a law that if anyone found a runaway slave that they had to return them to the rightful owner. Also, the Act of 1850 made it to where they were given even harsher punishments for the people that helped the slave run away and the slave was punished. -
Dred Scott vs. Sandford
This was a conflict between a guy named Dred Scott and a guy named Sandford. Dred Scott believed that when a slave entered the free states that he is now a free man. Sandford didn't believe that, he believed that blacks were property and couldn't be free. -
The John Brown Rebellion
John Brown was a religious man that came from a religious family. The John Brown Rebellion was when John led 21 men and planned on saving slaves and arming them to attack the slave owners in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. His plan failed when more than half of his men was killed or captured within 36 hours before they was planned to attack. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was decided by President Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln wanted to free slaves and have everyone be equal. After the Union victory at Antietam, Lincoln issued that Emancipation Proclamation, hoping that it would free all the slaves but it didn't change a thing. Even though it didn't change anything about slavey at the time it still was an important turning point in the war and a good start to ending slavery. -
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln was caused from a guy named John Wilkes Booth. The reason behide the assassination is that John was part of the Confederate sympathizer, and his side in the war had to surrender his army at Appomattox and it effectively ended the American Civil War. John was mad and wanted to seek revenge. Johns 1st plan was to kidnap the president but that didn't go as plan because Lincoln didn't show up. Instead he shot him from behind at a theater. -
The 13th Amendment
The 13th Amendment ended the institution of slavery. It made it to where blacks weren't suppose to be slaves anymore. Even anyone that was forced to do labor. It was the greatest change in the Civil War and was noted in the Consitiution. Lincoln believed that this Amendment was deeply needed to end slavery. -
The 14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment was to promise citizenship to everyone who was born or grew up in the United States. That includes slaves that have been in the United States their whole life. It also goes towards the slaves that was freed. This Amendment also made it to where states couldn't deny anyone life, liberty, or property without the process of laws. -
The 15th Amendment
The 15th Amendment was to allow Americans and African Americans to have the right to vote for their leader of their country. It offically made it to where people couldn't deny others to vote based on race, color or being a former slave. Because of this Amendment it allowed African Americnas to be in office which then shortly after provided schools for every child to attend. It also allowed different races to be married. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
The Plessy vs. Ferguson was an agreement to make equal protection between blacks and whites. They made separate schools, bathrooms, parks, cars, everything you can think of was separated between the races.When it came to traveling on a train there was different compartments for different races, if you was caught on the wrong compartment you was fined $25 or up to 20 days in jail. They took this all seriously. They thought the world was a better place like this rather than sharing everything. -
The Battle of Stalingrad
Major battle of WWII with Nazi Germany fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (Now Volgograd). -
The Battle of Kursk
Greatest showdown between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Almost 3 million men, a full eight thousand tanks, and nearly five thousand warplanes broke records for costliest single day.
