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The Missouri Compromise of 1820-1821
The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. -
The Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five bills passed in the United States in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states and free states. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement. -
Dread Scott v. Sandford
A landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that African Americans, whether slave or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court -
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas Debates
a series of seven debates for slavery between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the Senate in Illinois, and Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. -
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
An attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, -
Formation of the Confederacy
South Carolina secceded first with all the other southern states fiollowing aftyer in 1860. -
Underground railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century slaves of African descent in the United States to escape to free states -
Bull Run
The first major land battle of the American Civil War. -
Fort Sumter
The fort is best known as the site upon which the shots that started the American Civil War were fired -
Antietam
fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland Campaign, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil. -
Conscription
Although both North and South resorted to conscription during the Civil War, in neither region did the system work effectively. -
Income Tax
Income tax was very high during the civil war to pay for the war effort. -
Emancipation Proclamation
proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states that were still in rebellion -
The Gettysburg Address
a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, one of the best-known in American history.[4] It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg. -
Vicksburg
the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. -
Sherman's March
Savannah Campaign in the American Civil War, conducted through Georgia from November 15 to December 21, 1864 by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army. The campaign began with Sherman's troops leaving the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia, on November 15 and ended with the capture of the port of Savannah on December 21. -
Appomattox Court House
n the morning of April 9, 1865, was the final engagement of Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, and one of the last battles of the American Civil War. -
The Thirteenth Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime -
Assasination of Abraham Lincoln
United States President Abraham Lincoln was shot on Good Friday,April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre as the American Civil War was drawing to a close. -
Jefferson Davis
A United States soldier and statesman, and was the President of the Confederate States of America
