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Statehood For California
Due in large part to the gold rush, California had grown quickly and applied for statehood. Californias new constitution forbade slavery, a fact that alarmed and angered many Southerners. -
The Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
Underground Railroads
This was a network of antislavery activists who helped slaves escape from the South. On her first trip, Tubman brought her own sister and her sister's two children out of slavery in Maryland. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian", or "southern" elements in Kansas. -
southern secession
Lincolns victory convinced southerners-who had viewed the struggle over slavery partly as a conflict between the states right of self-determination and federal government control-that they had lost their political voice in the national government. -
Fort Sumter
As soon as the confederacy was formed, confederate soldiers in each secessionist state began seizing federal installations-especially forts. by the time Lincolns inauguration, only 4 southern forts remained in union hands. -
bull run
the first bloodshed on the battlefield occurred about three times after fort sumter fell, near the little creek of bull run, just 25 miles from washington D.C. the battle was a seesaw affair. -
Antiehem
it was the bloodiest battle in American history, with casualties totaling up to 26,000 men. The union took a huge loss to the confederates and Lincoln fired the union commander -
The Battle Of Hampton Roads
the battle of hampton roads took place on march 9, 1863 near richmond, verginia. this battle was between monitor and Merrimack. the battle was the first battle between. the battle itself was irrelevant, but started a new era of new warfare. -
the battle of Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee. -
The Battle Of Fredricksburg
The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the ... -
emancipation proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation, or Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. -
Battle of Chancellorsville
The Battle of Chancellorsville was a major battle of the American Civil War, and the principal engagement of the Chancellorsville Campaign. Wikipedia -
gettysburg address
The Gettysburg Address is a speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln at the November 19, 1863, dedication of Soldier's National Cemetery, a cemetery for Union soldiers killed at the Battle Of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. -
13th Amendment
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
