Significant events in the civil war

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  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War
    The compromise shows how difficult it was to accommodate the two sides of the slavery question. It failed to prevent the Civil War, which broke out just over ten years later.

  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas
    It was a series of violent political confrontations, because of the Kansas Nebraska Act; involving anti-slavery and pro-slavery. This crisis really pushed the North and South apart and had a lot to do with causing the Civil War. Outcome a free state.

  • Harper’s Ferry

    Harper’s Ferry
    Harpers Ferry is a historic town in Jefferson County, West Virgina. Abolitionist John Brown lead a small group on a raid against a federal armory there, in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery.

  • Antietam

    Antietam
    It is a creek flowing from South Pennsylvania through NorthWestern Maryland into the Potomac. There was a civil War battle fought near here at Sharpsburg, Maryland, in 1862. Over 23,000 men died as casualties in the one-day Battle of Antietam, making it the bloodiest day in American history.

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation
    President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the states "are, and henceforward shall be free." Some slaves were freed immediately by the proclamation. Runaway slaves who had escaped to Union lines were held by the Union Army as "contraband of war" in camps; when the proclamation took effect, they were told at midnight that they were free.

  • Gettysburg Address and Gettysburg

    Gettysburg Address and Gettysburg
    A borough in south Pennsylvania. Confederate forces defeated in a crucial battle of the Civil War (Gettysburg Address) fought near here on July 1–3, 1863. It's also a national cemetery and military park now.
    It was a Union victory that stopped Confederate General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North. More than 50,000 men fell during the 3-day battle.

  • Andersonville Prison

    Andersonville Prison
    The Andersonville National Historic Site, located near Andersonville, Georgia, a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the American Civil War. It's known for its cruelty. Some estimate that over 13,000 people died there.

  • Surrender at Appomattox Court House

    Surrender at Appomattox Court House
    On April 9, 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his apx. 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in the front parlor of the home of Wilmer McLean in Appomattox Court House, Virginia, ending the American Civil War.