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Wilmot Proviso
It was a proposal to outlaw slavery in the territory acquired by the United States at the end of the Mexican War. It was proposes by David Wilmot who was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives. -
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Mexican-American War
The Mexican-American War was a war waged between Mexico and America in order to gain more land for America as they were trying to fulfill the manifest destiny. -
Mexican Cession
The Mexican Cession is the area of the United States that was given to us by Mexico in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The treaty that ended the Mexican-American war on February 2, 1848 that was signed by Mexico. It gave the United States 525,000 square miles of territory. -
Fugitive Slave Law
It was passed as part of the Compromise of 1850. It said that all escaped slaves would be returned to their masters and that all the officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate. -
Compromise of 1850
On January 29, 1850, Senator Henry Clay brought in a series of resolutions in order to start a compromise between the North and South. One of the effects of the Compromise of 1850 was the Fugitive Slave act was amended and the slave trade in Washington D.C was abolished. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It was passed by the U.S Congress on May 30, 1854 and it allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery withing their borders. -
Bleeding Kansas
A series of violent civil confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political debate over the legalization of slavery in Kansas. -
Dred Scott v Sandford
A Supreme Court Case case in which Dred Scott, who was a slave in Missouri, returned to Missouri after living in Illinois which was a free state and filed suit in court for his freedom since he live in a free territory. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
A series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas for President. -
Raid of Harpers Ferry
The abolitionist John Brown lead a small group on a raid of a federal armor in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt/ -
Election of 1860
The Presidential election of 1860 in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Democrat Stephen A Douglas. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
it was the bombardment of Fort sumter by confederate states army and the return gunfire and surrender by the US army that initiated the American Civil War. -
Battle of Antietam
Also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, was the battle of the Civil war between Confederate General Robert E. Lee's army and Union General George B. McClellans's Army. It was the bloodiest day on US soil in history with a death count of about 22,717. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued this proclamation on January 1 1863 that said "that all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states are, and hence forward shall be free". -
Battle of Gettysburg
It is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. General Robert E. Lee marched his army into Pennsylvania in late June 1863 -
Battle of Vicksburg
Union General Ulysses S. Grant and his army crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate Army led by General John C. Pemberton into the defensive lines. -
Election of 1864
In this Presidential election, Abraham Lincoln was re-elected as president beating out the Democratic candidate and his former top Civil War general, George B. McClellan. -
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. -
Freedmen's Bureau
It was established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the south after the Civil War. -
Lincoln's Assassination
On the evening of April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes booth at the Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C -
Civil Rights Act of 1866
The first United States federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law -
Military reconstruction
The Military Reconstruction Acts divided south into five military districts -
14th amendment
All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. -
15th amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Election of 1876
The presidential election of 1876 was the most disputed presidential election in American history as Samuel J Tilden lost the race to Rutherford B. Hayes. -
Compromise of 1877
An informal, unwritten deal, that settled the disputed 1876 U.S presidential election.
