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The Missouri Comproise
The Missouri Compromise was made in hope to keep the balance between slave and free states. The Missourt Compromise took a great weight of the free states shoulders and made the south mad. It stoped the the spread of slavery in the Louisiana Territory above the 36;30 line. -
The Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a slave that was inherirated and moved to a free state as a slave. He sued for his freedom. The Supreme Court decided that all blacks, slave and free, are not and will never be citizens of the United States of America. That since they are not citizens they have no right to sue. They also state that the Missourt Compromise is unconsitutional. Taney- "had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his... -
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...benefit. He was bought and sold and treated as an ordinary article of merchandise and traffic, whenever profit could be made by it." -
South Secedes
The election of Abraham Lincoln was the an exuse the south used to secde. South Carolina was the first to secede from the union. Closely followed by: Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. At the same time, as the secetion from the six states, the union recived threats of secetion from: Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina. They later create the Confederate States of America. -
The Anaconda Plan
The Anaconda plan was thought up by Union General-in-Chief Winfield Scott. The goal of the Anaconda plan was to 'constrict' the south, by cutting off all trade and supply routes. Blockades were set up all around the south. The Anaconda plan was going to take time and patience to execute. The plan was to starve and weaken the South because with no trade or supplies coming they would eventually surrender to the union. The plan was not adopted; however, they did set up blockades. -
The Battle of Bull Run
Under the comand of Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell Union forces moved in on Bull Run beyond Centreville. They attacked the Confederate left flank on Matthews Hill. The Confederate army pushed the Union army back to Henry Hill. Soon after the Confederates broke the Union right flank. The Union retreated and by the 22nd reached the safty of Washington D.C. This battle was the first major battle of the war. It was also how Thomas J. Jackson earned the nom de guerre “Stonewall." -
The Battle of Shiloh
General Albert Sidney Johnston (confederacy) lead his troops to near the Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. Gen. Albert Johnston nearly overtook Ulysses S. Grant’s forces. Some of Ulysses S. Grant’s men stayed and made a battle line called the 'Hornets Nest'. The battle lasted 2 days. The Union won and there was 23,000 deaths on both sides. -
The Assassionation of President Lincoln
Lincoln was in a private booth with: his wife;Mary, a young army officer: Henry Rathbone and Rathbone’s fiancé, Clara Harris at the time of the shooting. At 10:15 Booth slipped in to the box and shot Lincoln in the back of the head with an .44-caliber single-shot derringer. Right after the shot was fired Rathbone charged Booth in order to subdue him. Booth stabbed Rathbone in the shoulder and jumped onto the stage. When he landed he shouted "Sic semper tyrannis!"... -
The Assassionation of President Lincoln
...("Thus ever to tyrants!"–the Virginia state motto). After wards he ran, with a broken leg, out of the theater and fled from Washington D.C. on horse back. Booth fled to Virginia. The Union surrounded the Farmhouse they he was in and set fire to it in hopes that it would flush him and his partner out. Booth, however, stayed inside. Oneof the sergeants shot Booth in the neck, allegedly because the assassin had raised his gun as if to shoot.
