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Western Expansion
American expanded through territory to the west. -
Missouri Compromise
We had to compromise in order to get so that free states would equal the number of slave states. -
Compromise of 1850
This happened to pass more laws on giving more people right in the United states. -
Fugitive slave act
This allowed owners of slaves who ran from there owners to free states to allow the owners to hunt them down. -
South Carolina secedes from Union
They left the union because they wanted to keep slavery. -
confederate forces fire on Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter was in confederate territory and the fort was under union control and the confederates didn't like that. -
General Robert E Lee leads a force on Wasington DC
This general succeded in fighting to washington DC but when he got there he saw so many deaths he ordered a retreat. -
Abraham Lincoln signs emancipation proclimation.
This promoted riots in New York because how racial it was. -
Battle of Vicksburg
Union fights to control the Mississippi river. Witch was the last major confederate base on the river. -
Gettysburg:(
Lee makes a mistake and orders 15,000 people through a narrow bridge and 7,000 people die in 30 min. -
13th amendment
Bans slavery forever in the United States. -
Sherman´s march
Burns everything to Atlanta and he burns everything in his path. -
Freedman´s Bureau
Food and clothing to people about 30,000 a day. Helping formal slaves find jobs, negotiate labor acts, getting educated. -
Ford´s theater
Lincoln is killed on this day. -
Appomattox Courthouse
Lee surrenders to Grant ending the war. -
Civil Rights Act
Grants citizenship to all people born in the United States -
Military reconstruction act
Divided former confederacy states into 5 military districts.
Strict rules added to what used to be the confederacy. -
15th Amendment
This Amendment was passed so that anyone could vote if they passed something.
