Road to Revolution

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  • Fugitive Slave act

    Fugitive Slave act
    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2951.htmlHenry Clay, U.S. Senator from kentucky was determined to find a solution. In 1820 he had resolved a firey debate over the spread of slavery.

  • Kansas Nebraska Act

    Kansas Nebraska Act
    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2951.htmlSenator stephen douglas, introduced a bill that divided the west. Antislavery supporters were outraged because, under the terms of Missouri Compromise of 1820, slavery would have been outlawed in both territories.

  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860
    the democrats met in Charleston, South Carolina in April 18620 elected their candidates for President. Southerners felt that Stephen Douglas had the best chance to defeat the "black republicans"

  • Battle of Fort Sumter (civil war began)

    Battle of Fort Sumter (civil war began)
    http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/fort-sumter.html On April 12, 1861, General P.G.T. Bauregard, in command of the Confederate forces. Around Charleston and Harbor, opened fire on the Union garrison holding Fort Sumter. At 2:30 pm on April 13, Major Robert Anderson, garrison commander surrender at the fort and was evacuated the next day.

  • The Monitor vs. the Merrimack

    The Monitor vs. the Merrimack
    http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/hampton-roads.html On March 8, 1862, from her birth at Norfolk, the confederate ironclad Virginia steamed into Hampton Roads where she sank Cumberland and ran congress aground. On March 9, the Union ironclad Monitor having fortiusiously arrived to do battle, initiated the first engagement of ironclads in history.

  • The Battle of Shiloh

    The Battle of Shiloh
    http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/shiloh.htm General Ulysses S. Grant's army was encamped along the Tennessee River just North of the Mississippi border. Poised to strike into the blow of heartland of the South. Grant had been at this location for about a month.

  • The Emancipation Proclomation

    The Emancipation Proclomation
    http://www.nps.gov/ncro/anti/emancipation.html Whereas on the twenty second day of September in the year of our lord, one thousand eight hundred sixty two a proclomation was issued by the President of the United States containing amond other things.

  • The Battle of Gettysburg

    The Battle of Gettysburg
    http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/battle.htm This is the most famous and most important Civil War Battle that occured over three hot summer days, July 1, 2, and July 3. 1863 around the small market town of Gettysburg, Pennyslvania. It began as a smirkish but by its end envolved 16,000 Americans. Other cities were under threat of attack.

  • Surrender of Appomattox

    Surrender of Appomattox
    http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/appomatx.htm with his army surrounded, his men weak and exhausted, Robert E Lee realised there was little choice but to surrender. The meeting lasted aproxmietly one and a half hours and its conclusion the bloddiest conflict in the nations history.

  • The Thirteenth Amendment

    The Thirteenth Amendment
    http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.html The thirtneenth amendment to the constitution declared that "Neither slave nor involuntary servitude except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted shall exist within the United States or any place subjected to their junisdiction.