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The Compromise of 1850
To please the North; California became a free state. To please the South; a new and more effective fugitive slave law. -
Slavery Divides Whigs
The whig vote in the south fell dramatically. Some looked for alternatives to the democratic parties; others fell to the republican party -
Dred Scott
A former slave whose owners took him from a slave state, to a free state. Scott appeared in front of the supreme court and became a free man. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Race for U.S. Senate between Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln. Both did not want slavery in territories, however they disagreed on how to keep it out -
Lincoln Elected as President
Promised to halt the spread of slavery, many southerners viewed him as an enemy. The south then split, from fear that Lincoln would abolish slavery. -
Southern Secession
South Carolina led the way by seceding from the union. soon Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas left. -
Confederate States of America
Secessionist met in Alabama where the formed the Confederacy, they also made their own constitution -
Seizing Federal installations
Confederate soldiers in each secessionist state began seizing federal installations-especially forts. only 4 southern forts remained in the unions hands. The most important was Fort Sumter. -
Ulysses S. Grant
Union army invaded western Tennessee. The head general was Ulysses S. Grant, in 11 days Grant's army captured 2 Confederate forts. Helped achieve cutting the confederacy in two. -
The Gettysburg Adress
Lincoln held a ceremony to dedicate a cemetery in Gettysburg. Lincolns speech remade America. Lincolns speech helped the country realize we were a united nation. -
Johnson's Plan
Lincoln was assassinated before he could carry out his reconstruction plan. Andrew Johnson therefore carried out his plan. It was different; in the fact that Johnson tried to break the planters' power by excluding high ranking confederates from taking the oath for voting privileges -
Lincoln is Assainated
After Lee surrendered to Grant, five days later Lincoln and his wife went to a British theater- John Wilkes booth came up from behind Lincoln and shot him. Lincoln then died a day later. -
Slavery Abolished
Immidately after the civil war the federal government abolished slavery with the 13 amendment -
Reconstructing Society
All the former Confederate states had completed the process, and all the states were back in the union. They were still in reconstruction, because they wanted to have economic changes in the South. -
Civil Rights Act
The United States Congress passes the Civil Rights Act, that doesn't allow racial discrimination in public places and jury duty
