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Five bills, passed in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North.
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Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise
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VIolent political confrontations involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery
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He was an African-American slave in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom
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Series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for Senate in Illinois, and the incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate.
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Also known as John Brown raids. Armed slave raid
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President of the United States and the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War.
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Was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War.
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It was the first major land battle of the American Civil War.
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It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with about 23,000 casualties on both sides
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It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in ten states that were still in rebellion
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It was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War
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A speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, considered one of the most well known in American history. It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War
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Andersonville was one of the largest Confederate military prisons during the Civil War.
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Robert E. Lee realized there was little choice but to consider the surrender of his Army to General Grant.
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The assassination of United States President Abraham Lincoln took place on Good Friday
