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Compramise of 1850
Package of 5 seperate bills passed in the U.S. in september. Defused a 4-year confrontation between the slave states of the south and free states of the north. -
The Kansas Nebraska act
Opening new lands for settlement allowed white male settlers in those territiories to determine through poplular sovereignty. -
Bleeding Kansas
violent political confrontations in the United States.
Anti-slavery
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The Dred Scott decision
Blacks and slaves could not become citizens of the United States. Faught in court for freedom, unsuccesful. -
Lincoln- Douglas Debates
7 debates in Illinois to win control of the illinois legislature. Main topic was slavery, and lincoln lost. -
Harper's ferry
Historic town where Maryland and Virginia meet. Civil war site of John Brown's raid. -
Lincolns election
Immediate cause of southern resolutions of secession. -
Fort Sumter
Site where the shots starting the civil war were fired. -
Bull run
The first major land batte. (Civilwar.org) -
Anietam
Part of the Maryland campain. Battle of sharpsburg in the south. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Proclamation, made by Lincoln, so that all slaves under the confederacy were "Forever free" -
gettysburg/Address
Union, confederate forces during the civil war ended. General Robert E. invasin of the north. -
Andersonville prison
Preserves the former camp sumter confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the Civil War. -
Surrender at appomattox court house
Final engagment of confederate states, surrendered to the union army. One of the last battles of the civil war. -
Assasination of Abraham Lincoln
Days after the civil war, at ford's theatere. John Wilkes Booth killed Lincoln. -
Reconstruction
Complete history of the entire country from 1865-1877 following the civil war.