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Missouri Compromise
CompromiseMissouri CompromiseA compromise to admit Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. This compromise threatened the balance of the number of slave states and free states. Slavery would be prohibited north of latitude 36 degree 30'. Later repealed by the Kanas - Nebraska act. -
The Compromise of 1850
1850CompromiseThe Compromise of 1850 was a package of five bills and, passed in the United States in September 1850. A compromise that gave the North and South part of what they wanted. The compromise that allowed California to enter the Union as a free state. The compromise enacted the Fugitive Slave Law - required free states to return escaped slaves to their owners. -
Kansas - Nebraska Act
Kansas-Nebraska ActThe Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 (10 Stat. 277) created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory. Violent raids became known as "Bleeding Kansas" It tore the Whigs Party apart. It divided the nation in half over the issue of slavery. -
Dred Scott Case
DredScottWas an African-American slave in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857.The case raised the issue of the status of slaves who had been held while residents in a free state. Such states and territories held that a slaveholder forfeited his rights to property by illegally holding a slave to a state that prohibited the institution and where there was no law. -
Election of 1860
Election1860The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860 and served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War.The nation had been divided throughout most of the 1850s on questions of states' rights and slavery in the territories. In 1860, this issue finally came to a head, fracturing the formerly dominant Democratic Party into Southern and Northern factions and bringing Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party to power without the support of a single Southern state. -
Union Blockade
UnionBlockadeThe Union blockade took place between 1861 and 1865, during the American Civil War. The Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the Confederate States of America designed the blockade to prevent the passage of trade goods, supplies, and arms to and from the Confederacy. Ships that tried to evade the blockade, known as blockade runners, were mostly newly built, high-speed ships with small cargo capacity.The blockade runners carried only a small fraction of the usual cargo. -
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Emancipation Proclamation
EmancipationProclamationThe Emancipation Proclamation was a document stating all people held as slaves in any state or part of a state waging war shall forever be forward and forever free. The Proclamation outraged white Southerners who envisioned a race war..It also lifted the spirits of African Americans both in the Southern and Northern States. Finally, it led to many slaves escaping their owners. -
Battle of Gettysburg
GettysburgThe Battle of GettysburgThe Battle of Gettysburg was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. This was the wars turning point and it electrified the North. This war lasted July 1- 3. In the end, The Union won. -
Battle of Chickamauga
ChichamaugaBattleThis battle happened on September 18-20th. This battle took place took place on the Tennessee and Georgia border. The Condfederates won and stopped The Union from advancing into Georgia. The battle was costly because it claimed 34,624 casualties. -
Sherman's Campaign March
Sherman'sMarchThis march happened from November 15 to December 21. Sherman's forces destroyed military targets as well as industry, infrastructure, and other civilian property.Sherman's march to the sea was the beginning of the end for South Carolina.He destroyed much of the South's physical and psychological capacity to wage war. -
Appomattox Court House
AppomattoxCourtThe Appomattox Court is located in Virginia. Appomattox Court was were the war ended. Lee's army surrendered because they were out numbered and surrounded. McClain allowed general Lee to use his house for the meeting.
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