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The Missouri Compromise
This made Missouri a slave state and Maine became a free state. -
Mexican War
Mexico had lost about one-third of its territory, including nearly all of present day California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. -
Compromise of 1850
This consisted of laws admitting California as a free state. -
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Allowed settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders. -
Bleeding Kansas
A series of violent events in the U.S. involving anti slavery. -
'Bleeding Sumner' Brooks sumner fight
Addressed wheather Kansas should be a slave state or a free state. -
Dred Scott Decision
The right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories. -
John Browns raid on Harpers ferry Virginia
Attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery. -
Election of 1860
They supported slavery in the territories. -
South Carolina secedes from the union
As war progressed thousands of ex slaves joined the union forces. -
The anaconda plan
Abraham Lincoln crushed the rebellion of southern states. -
Battle of fort sumter 1861
This was the site of the first shots of the civil war. -
Battle of Antietam
It was the first battle fought of the civil war on northern soil. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln was more concerned about the preservation of the Union rather than the abolition of slavery. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Was considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. -
Shermans march to the sea
Was to frighten Georgias civilian population into abandoning the confederate cause. -
confederate surrender at appomattox court house
This happened four years after the civil war.
