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Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century, and used by African-American slaves to escape into free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. -
Compromise Of 1850
The Compromise Of 1850 established that the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the Slave Trade in Washington, DC was abolioshed -
Election of 1860
The United States presidential election of 1860 was the 19th presidential election to select the President and Vice President of the United States. It served as the outbreak of the American Civil War. -
'Bleedeing Kansas'
A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas Territory. The territory bordered Missouri, a state where slavery was allowed, and the area became a battleground for pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces who fought over whether the resulting state of Kansas should be a slave state or a free state. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. The purpose of the Kansas–Nebraska Act was to open up thousands of new farms and make feasible a Midwestern Transcontinental Railroad. -
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Election of 1860 : Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president to serve in office. -
Fort Sumter is fired upon
Fort Sumter was the first battle of The American Civil War. -
Battle At Bull Run
This was the first major land battle of the armies in Virginia. On July 16, 1861, the untried Union army under Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell marched from Washington against the Confederate army, which was drawn up behind Bull Run beyond Centreville. -
Battle at Shiloh
The Confederate Army of the Mississippi under Johnston launched an attack on Maj. Gen. Grant's Army of the Tennessee near Pittsburg Landing. -
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Seven Day's Battle
The Seven Days battles in the American Civil War, the week-long war that ended the Peninsular campaign. Peninsular campaign, in the American Civil War, the unsuccessful Union attempt to capture Richmond, Va. -
Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam was fought on September 17, 1862 between the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War. It took place near Sharpsburg, Maryland. The Southern forces were led by General Robert E. Lee and the Northern forces were led by General George B. McClellan. -
Emancipation Proclamation
[https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/emancipation-proclamation] As the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
Battle at Vicksburg
Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's armies converged on Vicksburg, investing the city and entrapping a Confederate army under Lt. Gen. John Pemberton. On July 4, Vicksburg surrendered after prolonged siege operations. -
Reconstruction
[https://www.dictionary.com/browse/reconstruction] The period after the Civil War in which the states formerly part of the Confederacy were brought back into the United States. During Reconstruction, the South was divided into military districts for the supervision of elections to set up new state governments. -
Booth Plotting to Kill Lincoln
[https://www.britannica.com/event/assassination-of-Abraham-Lincoln] Booth remained in the North during the Civil War, and his hatred of abolitionists and Lincoln deepened. In March 1865 he and a group of conspirators in Washington, D.C., plotted to abduct Lincoln, though none of those plans went through. He then found out that Lincoln was going to be at Fords Theater and plotted to shoot him. -
Surrender at Appomattox Court House
The assassination occurred days after the surrender at Appomattox Court House of Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia to Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, which had signaled the end of the American Civil War. -
Secession of Southern States
The force of events moved very quickly upon the election of Lincoln. South Carolina acted first, calling for a convention to secede from the Union. -
Lincoln Gets Assasinated
[http://www.american-historama.org/1860-1865-civil-war-era/abraham-lincoln-assassination.htm]
On the evening of April 14, 1865 President Abraham Lincoln, and his wife Mary Todd Lincoln, attended a performance at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. At 10.15 pm. John Wilkes Booth, went into the theater box and shot the President in the back of the head then he escaped.
