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The Missouri Compromise
It made Missouri a slave free state -
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The Mexican War
It became the new slave state. -
Compomise of 1850
The compromise enabled Congress to avoid sectional slavery issues for several years. -
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
It added provisions regarding runaways and even harsher punishments for interfering in their capture. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebrask Act was an 1854 bill that mandated “popular sovereignty–allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas is a term used to describe the violence during the settling of Kansas territory. Proslavery and free-state settlers flooded into Kansas to try to influence the decision. -
‘Bleeding Sumner’ Brooks-Sumner fight
Southern Congressman Preston Brooks savagely beats Northern Senator Charles Sumner in the halls of Congress as tensions rise over the expansion of slavery. -
Dred Scott Decision
The U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in the case of Dred Scott v. Sanford. The case had been brought before the court by Dred Scott, a slave who had lived with his owner in a free state before returning to the slave state of Missouri. -
John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, Virginia
Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery. -
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln wa elected the 16 President. He ended slavery -
South Carolina secedes from Union
Formed in February 1861, the Confederate States of America was a republic composed of eleven Southern states that seceded from the Union in order to preserve slavery, states’ rights, and political liberty for whites. -
Battle of Fort Sumter, 1861
The Confederates and the Union fought. -
The Union’s ‘Anaconda Plan’
Union military leaders made the Anaconda Plan, which called for the dismemberment of the Confederacy piece by piece. The first part of the plan involved capturing the Mississippi River through operations from both the north and the Gulf of Mexico. -
Battle of Antietam
Generals Robert E. Lee and George McClellan faced off near Antietam creek in Sharpsburg, Maryland, in the the first battle of the American Civil War to be fought on northern soil.Though the result of the battle was inconclusive, itremains the bloodiest single day in American history, withmore than 22,000 casualties.
