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The Missouri Compromise
Congress passed the law that Southern states would be pro-slavery, and Northern states would be anti-slavery. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner started an uprising that spread through several plantations in Southern Virginia. 55 slaves were tried and executed for their role in the insurrection. Nat Turner's rerbellion was the bloodiest. -
The Wilmot Proviso
Banned slavery in any territory that might be from Mexico -
The Compromise of 1850
A set of laws that tried to do something for people who were pro-slavery and for people who were anti-slavery, it also called for admission for California to become a state -
Bleeding Kansas
A series of violent confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which started over a political debate deciding whether or not to legalize slavery in the state of Kansas. -
Dred Scott vs. Stanford
Dred Scott, a slave, tried suing for his freedom, because he was taken into a free state and then brought back into Missouri to be a slave again. -
John Brown's Raid
Tried to initiate a slave revolt by taking over a United States arsenal at Hapers Ferry, Virginia. He was defeated by the U.S. marines, because no one showed up to help him fight. -
Southern secession
11 slave states seceded from the union because they thought they were going to make slavery illegal everywhere, when really they just didn't want it to spread. -
CSA founded
The 11 slavery states that seceded from the union become the Confederate States of America -
Battle of Shiloh
One of the biggest, bloodiest wars ever. Confederated launch a surprise attack on Grant. More soldiers die in this war than the American Revolution, The War of 1812, and the Mexican-American war combined. -
Battle of Antietam
Lee, South, pushes into Northern territory and fights union General George McClellan. Lee kills 22,000 men in one day, but ends up retreating which ends in a victory for the North. -
Emancipation Proclamation
A decree freeing all enslaved people in states still in rebellion after January 1, 1863. -
Vicksburg
Union fights for the Mississippi River. Grant assaults, but repels, and the base is put under siege for 3 months. -
Gettysburg Battle
3 days of the most brutal, awful fighting. "Turning point" in history. Robert E. Lee invades the North because his troops need shoes. Union General George Meade meets Lee at Gettysburg to fight. -
Sherman's March
William Tecumseh Sherman scorches his way to Atalanta, burns everything and kills all their animals. He wanted to frighten Georgia's civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause. -
Freedmen's Bureau
Helped feed and clothe war refugees and helped formerly enslaved people find work, negotiate labor contracts, and provide education. -
Thirteenth Amendment
The thirteenth amendment is created and slavery is banned forever in the United States. -
Appomattox Courthouse
Lee surrenders to Grant and the Civil War ends. Things end on generous terms. -
Abraham Lincoln Assassinated
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in the Ford's theater by John Wilks Booth. Abraham wanted to reunite the nation, but he died the next morning, and booth was killed a couple days later. -
Military Reconstruction Act
Divided former confederacy into 5 military districts
Strict requirements to be readmitted to the union
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14th Amendment added
The 14th Amendment was added. This amendment grants citizenship to all people born in the united states (except for native Americans). Guarantees rights of African Americans to own property and be treated equally in court -
Ulysses S. Grant Becomes President
He is a great general, but a bad politician. He left politics to Congress, and carried out the laws. -
15th Amendment
Gives the right to vote to any citizen in the united states no matter what your race . Hundreds of thousands of African Americans can now vote -
Panic of 1873
Banks go bankrupt. This set off a full depression over the United States, and Southern Democrats regain power in the House and Senate. -
Compromise of 1877
Nobody really knows what this compromise is for but, Rutherford B. Hayes is elected, but it's disputed. Hayes removes troops from the South.
