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The Compromise of 1850 consists on five laws that deal with the issue of slavery. It start when California requested to enter the union as a free state. As a result, the Fugitive Slave Act was created.
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Dred Scott was voted a free man after going to court because his owner, Dr. Emerson, who was a surgeon for the U.S. Army which caused him to move around a lot, brought him to a free state after living in Illinois and Wisconsin Territory.
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An abolitionist named John Brown lead a small group on a raid to a nearby federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in an attempt to start an armed slave uprising trying to stop slavery.
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At 2:30pm on April 13th, confederate guns open fired on Fort Sumter. Major Robert Anderson, garrison commander, surrendered the fort and it was evacuated the next day.
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The Battle of Bull Run was fought in Prince William County, Virginia. It was the first major land battle of the Civil War. The resulting in another victory for the Union
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When Abraham Lincoln warned that if the Southern states did not end their rebellion, by January 1, 1863, then a new law would be put into place.
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The eighth most deadliest war in the Civil War. The Union strategically won, and five days later issued the emancipation proclamation.
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It is considered to be the most important war of the Civil War. After a great victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville, General Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania in late June 1863.
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The Siege of Vicksburg happened during the end of the Vicksburg Campaign in the Civil War. During this battle, the Confederate army was effectively split in half. The Battle took place in Warren County. The Union won the battle.
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The Union's General, Ulysses Grant broke the siege of Chattanooga, Tennessee, by routing the Confederates under General Braxton Bragg at Missionary Ridge.
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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, a famously well-known actor, while attending a play at Ford's Theater.
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The thirteenth Amendment banned slavery in the United States.
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On April 9, 1865, near the town of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, the commander of the Confederate army, General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. But the resulting Battle of Appomattox Court House, which lasted only a few hours, effectively brought the four-year Civil War to an end.
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The Reconstruction act of 1867 created an outline for the process of readmitting Southern states into the Union.
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On February 24, 1868, after a couple days of Johnson's dismissal of Stanton, the house of representatives voted 126 to 47 in favor of impeachment of the president for committing high crimes and misdemeanors.
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The election between, Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden of New York was known to be one of the most hostile, and controversial campaigns in American History.
