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Maine became a free state, simultaneously with Missouri as a slave state, maintaining the balance of power between North and South
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it was a slave rebellion illustrated by Nat turner showing that slaves were NOT happy with their lives. and well because of the revolt slave laws got even more strict.
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an american victory in which it doubled the size of america with land that belonged to mexico.
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a failed attempt to ban slavery in the newly acquired land from the Mexican american war
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series of laws that dealt with the the new land, creating new territories such as Utah and new Mexico, and declaring California a free state.
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part of the compromise of 1850 the act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. The act also made the federal government responsible for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves
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Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote about the lifestyle and how it was to live like a slave, the living conditions and hardships.
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the Kansas-Nebraska act allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders
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a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory between 1854 and 1859 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.
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a court ruling that didn't allow Dredd Scott sue because he was taken back into slavery even tho he was in a free state. he couldn't sue because he wasn't a citizen
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a failed attempt on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, to try and start an armed revolt of enslaved people and destroy the institution of slavery
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Lincoln ran on a political platform opposed to the expansion of slavery in the territories. His election served as the immediate motivation for the outbreak of the Civil War.
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the very first state to secede from the union, inspiring more states to follow as well, sparking the war between the two sides
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South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana met in Montgomery, Alabama, with representatives from Texas arriving later, form the Confederate States of America
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the very first battle in the civil war. the union is forced to surrender fort sumpter after a 33 hour bombardment from the confederacy
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a key turning point for the union. a victory at Antietam provided President Abraham Lincoln the opportunity he had wanted to announce the Emancipation Proclamation, also considered the most bloodiest battle in us history
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mass victory for the union, giving them control over the Mississippi river.
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considered a turning point in the war that cost the union 23,000 soldiers and the confederacy 25,000
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one of the last battles in the civil war where general Robert E Lee surrenders to Union general Ulysses S Grant
