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Eli Whitney Jr. and Invention of the Cotton Gin
Born on 12/08/1765 in Westborough, Massachusetts; parents are Eli Whitney and Elizabeth Fay.When about 23 years old he attend Yale College (Now Yale University). He was inspired by the first cotton mill in the U.S. which started the cotton industry in the US. Eli moves to South to learn Law and teach, teaching is how he earned money to pay loans and bills. While in South he notice how important cotton was and how it was important to remove seeds from the cotton, but the way they(southers) -
Eli Whitney Jr. and Invention of the Cotton Gin
did it took a really long time. On the 14 of March in 1794 he invents the Cotton Gin, which separates the seed and cotton which out causing any harm to the cotton. This makes slavery more wanted, because people than can make money faster. Whitney makes Cotton Gin for US Army. Marries Henrietta Frances Edwards and has 3 girls and 1 boy. Dies on 01/08/1825 -
Missouri Cmpromise of 1820
The Missouri Territory was believed to all become slave states because most of the people there came from the south. James Tallmadge proposed an amendment that would forbid importation of slaves and would bring about the ultimate emancipation of all slaves born in Missouri. The House agreed on this but not the Senate. -
Missouri Cmpromise of 1820
Maine became a free state and Alabama became a slave state making all equal. By making make part the south part of Louisiana slave and the north part free it maked it equal again. No slaver above 36°30'N lat. It was first not wanted by the House but later they agreed with it, -
Underground Railroad
The person that was known as the "Moses" of blacks was Harriet Tubman, She helped hundreds and thousands of people escape into the north and did it for over 40 years. Once her cash award if caught was 40000 dollars. This didnt stop her she kept doing it. -
Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad became away for many blacks to escape into freedom, This was made up of not only blacks but whites too. The Underground Railroad spanned 29 states, as well as Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. It is believed that over 100000 slaves escaped into freedom from the American Revolution and the Civil War. -
Wilmot Proviso
During the Mexian War northern people were scared that the land we were going to recieve from Mexico will become slave states. Southerns wanted it to become slave states so slavery wouldn't end and it would expand over powering the free states. David Wilmot introduced an amendment to the bill stipulating that none of the territory acquired in the Mexican War should be open to slavery. David Wilmot introduced an amendment to the bill stipulating that none of the territory acquired in the Mexican -
Wilmot Proviso
amendment to the bill stipulating that none of the territory acquired in the Mexican War should be open to slavery. The house agreed on this bill, but the senate didn't like it. The senate canceled it without a vote. When a bill will pass the House but the Senate would exclude the proviso by drawing a bill. This caused a probelm in the election of 1848. Most people either were against slavery or with it. This is how people voted for presidenticy. -
Wilmot Provise
most people voted during the time of presidentcy. Later in the presidentcy the republicans became know for excluding slavery in nre territories. -
The Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act
With the end of the Mexican War, America was ceded western territories. This posed a problem as these new territories would be admitted as states, would they be free or slave? California was admitted to the Union as the 16th free state. The south didn't want slavery to end so they tried to make California a slave state, but this would unbalance to slave states with the free states. The Califorians wanted, so it eventualy bec ame a free state, but south didnt like the fact that slaves could escap -
The Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act
capture free slaves and sell them to the southerns as black slaves. This upset the northerns alot. -
The Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act
free state, but southerns didnt like the fact thtat slaves can escape north and become free so congress passed Fugitive Slave Act. The Fugitive Slave Act was a law that was made due to all the slaves that escaped on the Underground Railroad. This Acts states that you must provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory. South didnt want their slaves back so they would capture free slaves and sell them to the south as slaves which upset the northerns. -
Compromise of 1850 and Fugitive Slave Act
Slavery has always been a problem in the US and the people all over the US believed the compromise of 1820 solved that problem. With the new land the US had recieved from the ending of the Mexican War people in the government didn't know weither to make it slave states or free. If it was to become unbalance it would effect the compromise of 1820 allowing the plan to be unliked by both north and south, -
Compromise of 1850 and Fugitive Slave Act
unliked by both south and north. Congress allowed the states to come into the country neither slave or free, but choosing for themselves. This is when the Fugitive Slave Acr came into place. This act said that slaves can run away but owners can send people to go get the slaves out of the north with no problem, with a small fee. This opened the Undergrond Railroad and blacks into leaving to other countries. -
Compromise of 1850 and Fugitive Slave Act
Railroad and blacks leaving to other countries. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Author was Harriet Beecher Stowe. Its an anit-slavery novel which sold over 300000 copies within 3 months, Abraham Lincoln refered to her as "So this is the little lady who made this big war." Father is Lyman Beecher. She was a teachers for 5 years. Married and had seven kids. First book was "Mayflower" -
Dred Scott Decision
With popular sovereignty it left the people of the country wondering if its a good decision because of Kansas as a model it didnt look so well. The people of the states were than hoping Congress will chose for them and make a finial decision. Dred Scott was a slave that was tooken into free states, but the supreme court was full of southerns wanting slave states it over ruled. -
Dred Scott Decision
It was said that Scott was not a citizen, but still a slave because he was property of his owner and property cant be taken from an owner withour due process of law. -
Dred Scott Decision
On this day the supreme court gave word to all slave owners the rights to move west into the states and take slaves with them. This negated the doctrine of popular sovereignty and severely undermining the platform of the newly created Republican Party. As for the belief of the people it is said that slaver would be judged based on the people there voting also called popular sovereignty. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates and Freeport Doctrine
the country couldnt be half free and half slave. Although Douglas won this debate had attention all over the US. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates and Freeport Doctrine
The debates between Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln were held during the 1858 campaign, Douglas was a well known man in the country and he had chaired the Senate Committee on Territories. He was also known for Popular Sovereignty, and was responsible for the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Lincoln wasnt known well and said the country couldnt be half slave and half free.Douglas wins. -
Raid on Harper’s Ferry, Virginia
Later US Marines under Coloel Robert E. Lee arrived and stopped this. Brown was put on trial and charged with treason against the state of Virginia, murder, and slave insurrection. Brown was sentenced to death for his crimes and hanged on December 2, 1859. -
Raid on Harper’s Ferry, Virginia
John Brown and his men hide-out en route to Harpers Ferry. His men captured prominent citizens and seized the federal armory and arsenal. Brown hoped the blacks would join and help them, but the blacks knew what would happen if they joined. First held down by the local militia Brown took refuge in the arsenal’s engine house. -
The Election of 1860
A period in history that is believed to set the stage for the Civil War. In the 1850s the country was already becoming sectional. The act against slavery and state rights by both northerns and southerns lead it to become permanet. The north formed the Republican party with Abraham Lincoln as nominee. Abraham wins without a signle southern states help. declarations of secession by South Carolina and other states. -
Election of 1860
Hardly more than a month following Lincoln's victory came declarations of secession by South Carolina and other states. Later Lincoln will become one of the main focuses in the Civil War. He will end slavery thoughout the US. -
Election of 1860
South still wanting slavery to win didn't know who to nominee. The west no wanting slavery just wanted popular sovereignty. The nominees they had walked out. Northern Democrartic meet in Baltamore, Maryland and had Stephen A. Douglas because of the life he had in Kansas and "Bleeding Kansas". Southern Democratics reconvened in Richmond, Virginia and nominated John C. Breckinridge. -
Election of 1860
and nominated John C. Breckinridge. The southern Democratics platform had the protection of slavery, while the northern had things against slavery, William H. Seward confidently anticipated the nomination from the Republican Party in 1860. The republicans were not only on slavery but tariffs and state rights. -
Fort Sumter
This was the opening engagement of the American Civil War. -
Fort Sumter
Abraham Lincoln received a message from Maj. Robert Anderson, commander of the U.S. troops holding Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. On April 12, Confederate batteries opened fire on the fort, which was unable to reply effectively. At 2:30 pm, April 13, Major Anderson surrendered Fort Sumter, evacuating the garrison on the following day. -
Battle of Bull Run (1st)
This was considered the first real major conflict in the Civil War. The Union army of about 28000 men fought 33000 men. The Union army, under pressure to crush the rebellion in the South, marched towards Richmond, but met the Confederate forces coming north from Manassas, a Southern base. Stonewall as able to hold his ground with his people until General Johnston showed up with 9000 reinforcements to help out Beauregard near Henry House Hill. -
Battle of Bull Run (1st)
When Stonewall Jackson and the army were holding up the Union the extra troops were able to help push the Union out and running back to Washington. -
Battle of Shiloh
Ulysses S. Grant was already moving though the south destory and Albert Sidney Johnston wasnt going to wait for Grant and Don Carlos Buell to join. He suprise the Union army with an attack driving the surprised bluecoats back near a small church called Shiloh, meaning "place of peace." The Union army battled the Confederates. The Confederate ran them up towards Pittsburg and threating to trap them in the TN River. -
Battle of Shiloh
them up towards Pittsburg and threating to trap them in the TN River. Neither side of the army had any fighting skills or experience. Later Johnson bleed to death because of an attack that backfired on the Confederates. -
Siege of Richmond
This was the first battle during Confederate invasion of Kentucky in 1862. General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate enter Kentucky on the 14 of August. Late night on August 29 they meet up with the Union army. Although they are surrounded and out number he believes it is a risk he has to take. With two attempts they fail and have no choice but to surrender. -
Siege of Richmond
At the end 206 were killed, 844 wounded and 4,303 captured. Only 900 or so men escaped to fight on. This was out of the 6500 they began with. -
The Battle of Antietam
Union Army confronted Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia at Sharpsburg, Maryland. This battle is also called the Battle of Sharpsburg. It is known for the most bloodiest battle in american history. Union starts by assulting Lee’s left flank. The north has a great number of people but the south has a stragy and it seems to be killing many union people. -
The Battle of Antietam
Stonewall Jackson is fighting in the bloodest morning and Maj. General Ambrose Burnside’s corps pushed across a bullet-strewn stone bridge over Antietam Creek and with some difficulty managed to imperil the Confederate right. Lee allows all of his people and forus into this battle while McClellan sent in less than three-quarters of his Federal force. -
The Battle of Antietam
Militery and army view says this was a draw, but the Union and Licoln see this as a victory. This battle gave Licoln the perfect timing for him to announce Emancipation Proclamation. -
Emancipation Proclamation
He just didn't want to outlaw another law and make a new one making slaves free but he wanted it to detest slavery. Confederates notice that this will make the Union stronger so the confederates came up with the fugitive act, -
Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln calls the Union army to talk to blacks into rebellion in which its for "anact of justice". " These three million slaves were declared to be "then, thenceforward, and forever free." All of the states became free states except the three states that the Union owned and were surrounding the capital. It has always been a goal of Lincoln to remove slavery for everyone around the US -
Battle of Gettysburg
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Battle of Gettysburg
This was the biggest battle in North American with over 85000 men from the Union army and over 75000 men from the confederates. Confederate forces converged on the town from west and north. Lee attacks Unions Union left flank.This lost most of the confederates army and southerns army and was called the turning point for the south. -
Siege at Vicksburg
In the months leading til the dats of July 4 Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s armies converged on Vicksburg and tapping Confederate army under Lt. Gen. John Pemberton. With this trap and getting the Confederates it was believed to be the most brilliant military campaigns of the war. With the loss of Pemberton’s army and this vital stronghold on the Mississippi, the Confederacy was effectively split in half. -
Siege at Vicksburg
the Confederacy was effectively split in half. With this win it became sure that Grant would become General-in-Chief of the Union armies. -
Gettysburg Address
Lincoln tells how the Civil War as needed and why the Union had to fight. He gave the speech in just 272 words in the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Everett spoke before Lincoln for over two hours and Lincolns speak was no longer then three mins. He didn't say how it was to save the Union but the give everyone freedom and equal rights. Lincoln said in his speech -
Gettysburg Address
"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall -
Gettysburg Address
Lincoln whole speech was to stay on point and delieve the message on the lines. Now today it is said to be the most eloquent articulation of the democratic vision ever written. -
Election of 1864
It was hard for Lincoln to win this one and he was almost beat. It may have been because country had not elected an incumbent President for a second term since Andrew Jackson in 1832 and its been nine one term presidentcy since. Northerns had a problem with the emancipation that Lincoln liked also, Many people also didnt want Lincoln to win again because thousands of people died and they havent seen the reason why, even though it was great reason. -
Sherman's March to the Sea
As his march was going one reported "immense and raging fires lighting up whole heavens... huge waves of fire roll up into the sky; presently the skeleton of great warehouses stand out in relief against sheets of roaring, blazing, furious flames." -
Sherman's March to the Sea
The March begans in Ga as Union General William T. Sherman marchs his army across Ga destroying and burning everything in sight. As they moved across Ga they moved father away from there supply line in Tn. They were moving towards the east of Ga where they captured the Confederate seaport of Savannah, Georgia. -
Sherman's March to the Sea
In order to keep moving Sherman had to send thousands of slaves to protect the railroad where the supplies were coming from bc. Confederate raiders such as Nathan Bedford Forrest threatened to cut his lines, After the re election of Lincoln Sherman orders 2,500 light wagons loaded with supplies. He kept in contact with his general in chief, Ulysses S. Grant as he keep marching. -
13th Amendment
The 13th amendment was passed by congress as the 1st amendment to help blacks and slaves. This gave blacks and slaves their freedom. It says "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." -
13th Amendment
States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." This means if there is a place that the US owned there can be no type of slavery unless issued by the government, The amendment was ratified on Dec. 6 1865 -
Freedmen’s Bureau
Southerns hated this and disagreed on it, but they were really made they had to free all slaves. Ku Klux Klan formed and it targeted both blacks and whites. -
Freedmen’s Bureau
On March 3, 1865 Abraham Lincoln signs a bill creating the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. This gave all blacks freedom. Union General Oliver O. Howard was the head of the Freedmen's Bureau. The bureau was given power to dispense relief to both white and black refugees in the South and giving them education and amedical. -
Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia
foward not knowing what the furture had in store for him. Moving ahead they gain little ground. John Broun Gordon’s corps and Fitzhugh Lee’s cavalry surrounded them leaving them hopeless to even attempt to fight. This was the final engagement of the war in Virginia. On April 9 Lee surrenders to Grant, -
Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia
While Lincoln tried to "Preserve the Union" during the Civil War the south and the north didnt agree on the everything. This caused a problem which caused may fights. In Appomattox Courthouse, VA two men (John Broun Gordon’s corps and Fitzhugh Lee) with there army formed a line which surrounded Appmattox Courthouse. This did allow the Confederates to get to the supplies they need and Gen. Robert E, Lee wouldn't sit and wait. Instead he tried to move foward not knowing what the future had in -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
of Lincoln gave a peace across the US as a great president passed. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
On April 14, 1865 Lincoln and his wife went to watch a play called Our American Cousin. John Wilkes Booth shots Lincoln in the head and jumps on stage and escapes with a broken foot. A near by doctor runs and looks at Lincoln and he dies the next morning in the hospital across the street from the play. Booth said it was done for the South. The death of Lincoln have a peace across the US as a great president passed. -
Formation of the Confederate States of America
Andrew Johnson was the president that served after the death of Lincoln. Andrew Johnson was the first president to ever be impeached. Johnson grew up poor and lacked a formal education. He served in the Tennessee legislature and U.S. Congress, and was governor of Tennessee. He championed populist measures and supported states’ rights. -
14th Amendment
Congress passed this law on June of 1866. This law was designed to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liberties of recently freed slaves. Andrew wanted to leave the blacks future in the hands of the southerns, but the Radical Republicans didn't agree and they won. The amendment was able to complete all the its goals by first giving all native born black citizenship, -
14th amendment
tasks by first giving all the native born blacks citizenships. The amendment was enforcus by saying any citizen depriving any person of his life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or denying to any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Ratified 1868 by states -
15th Amendment
The 15th amendment was written and passed on March 1st, 1869. This amendment gave all MEN the right to vote. No matter what a persons race, color, or previous condition of servitude they could still vote. Whites and other people not agreeing to this amendments found ways to stop blacks from voting such as poll taxes. The 15th amendment was ratified on Feb, 3, 1870 it wasn't fully realized for almost a century. -
15th Amendment
on Feb. 3 1870 which gave all men the right to vote no matter what, but it wasnt fully realized for almost a century -
Caning of Charles Sumner
he is and how devoted he is to help the country. His heart attack set him as a northern hero for the US. -
Caning of Charles Sumner
Since the death of Lincoln the country didnt feel so sad about another death than this one. Charles Sumer died of a massive heart attack. The mortally ill senator said that his only regrets about dying were that he had not finished preparing his collected writings for publication and that the Senate had not yet passed his civil rights bill. This shows how strong of a man he is and how he was devoted to help the country. -
Election of 1876
Of all the failing presidents before this election gave people thoughts about voting. Now both republicans and democrats are going fot honest people who will work the country better, Democrats have Samuel J. Tilden because he wants to remove militry from south, Democrats have James G. Blaine, but later get Rutherford B. Hayes. -
Election of 1876
After the votes everyone believed Tilden had won but because there were some states that never agreed on neither they came with the compromise of 1877 which gave the win to Hayes.
