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Nathaniel Turner was an enslaved man who led a rebellion. The rebellion consisted of a bunch of other enslaved people. So on August 21, 1831, the rebels killed between 55 and 65 people, at least 51 of whom were white. The rebellion was put down within a few days and Nat managed to survive. The rebellion was effectively suppressed at Belmont Plantation on the morning of August 23, 1831. Nat was later hung on November 11 in Virginia.
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The Wilmot Proviso an unsuccessful proposal to the united states, which was first introduced in 1846. The was proposal was to prohibit the extension of slavery into the territory aquired from mexico. This was one of the conflicts that lead to the Civil War.
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly, novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, about anti-slavery. It was Published in 1852, the novel had a lot of effects towards white Americans at the time. The novel had a character named Uncle Tom, a long suffering slave whom the other characters develop around. It was the best selling novel in the 1800’s and shows the realities of slavery.
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The Radical Republicans were a faction of the Republican party that sought to impose a harsh version of Reconstruction over the former Confederate states following the Civil War. From October 1854 They were also very supportive of establishing and protecting the civil and voting rights of the newly freed Black population of the south. Reconstruction ended in 1877.
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Bleeding Kansas is the term used to describe the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas. Between 1854 and 1859. In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraska Act overturned the Missouri Compromise’s use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory and instead, using the principle of popular power, decreed that the residents would determine whether the area became a free or slave state. People believing that slavery should stand flooded into Kansas to try to influence the decision.
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The Lincoln–Douglas debates were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Party candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. On August 21, 1858 the first debate took off. Douglas repeatedly tried to brand Lincoln as a dangerous radical who advocated racial equality and disruption of the Union.
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In April 4 1861, located in Charleston Harbor, was attacked by the confederates lead by P.G.T. Beauregard with artillery fire which was one of the very first of the Civil War. The Union where under a lot of pressure forcing them to have to surrender for Sumter due to the 34 hour artillery fire.
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July 21, 1861, was when the two sides the Confederate and the Union the two armies clashed near Manassas Junction, Virginia
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March 9, 1862 the first naval battle between ironclad warships. This battle was the Confederate attempt to break Union blockades. There were about 369.
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On April 7, 1862, the battle of Shiloh ended with a union victory. This was the bloodiest battle in the civil war. Another thing was that was crucial to the Unions win was the Confederates General Albert Sidney Johnston had been killed during the battle. There were 23,000 dead and wounded.
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On September 17, of 1862 at Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland, Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army against Union General George McClellan’s Army. The battle of Antietam was Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s attempt to invade the north. Which ended with the Union victorious. There were 22,717 dead casualties.
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From December 11–15, 1862 and the Union forces under Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside and the Confederate Army under Gen. Robert E. Lee. The battle ended with the defeat with the union’s defeat.
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April 30 1863, Confederate General Robert E. Lee made a decision to face a force twice his armies size. He did this by splitting the army into two. The Confederate won and will go down in history as Lee’s best tactical victory. There were about 30,500 casualties in total. Ended on May 6 1863.
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It started on May 18 1863 General Ulysses S. Grant's Union army moved south. Grant wanted to secure the Mississippi river, the Confederacy would not allow this. But eventually the Union overpower the Confederacy and got control of the Mississippi river. There was a total of about 37,273 casualties.
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On July 1, 1863 to July 3, 1863 one of the largest military conflicts in North American history begins when Union and Confederate forces battling at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It started with Confederate General Robert E. Lee launching his second invasion of the Northern states. Lee wanted to his Army of Northern Virginia for supplies from farmland and was pursued first by Union Maj. There was 3,100 casualties.
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Reconstruction refers to the period immediately after the Civil War from 1863 to 1877 when several United States administrations wanted to reconstruct society in the former Confederate states in particular by establishing and protecting the legal rights of the freed black population.
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The Freedmen's Bureau was a government agency that operated during the period of Reconstruction. It was officially titled the Bureau of Refugees, freedmen and abandoned Lands and was created by President Lincoln in 1865 with the intention to aid the newly freed population in the south. Bureau was also part of the Defense department also known then as the Department of war.
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From March 29, 1865 to April 9, 1865 near the Courthouse of a town called Appomattox, Virginia. Was the place Confederate General Robert E. Lee was forced to surrender to Union General Ulysses S. Grant because he wanted to prevent unneeded destruction to the South. There were about 652 casualties in total.
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On the evening of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor at the time, killed the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln went to go see a play at Ford’s theatre in Washington Dc. During the play John Wilks got into Abraham Lincoln's booth and shot him in the back of the head. This happened at the end of the civil war and he was trying to get the other confederates inspired to fight back again.
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In 1868 the Radical Republican Congress sought to remove President Andrew Johnson from office. This was part of the power struggle between Johnson who sought highly harsh policies towards the former Confederate states and the Radical Republicans who wanted a harsher version of Reconstruction also aswell as more forceful protection of the rights of the newly freed southern black population. The impeachment was not popular.
