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Many northerner disagreed on the fugitive slave law, the law was "Runaway slaves would be caught in the North and returned them to the South. People who live in the South wanted slavery, but in the North try to end slavery that why lot of blacks went toward the North.
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Republican party formed, and they opposed slavery. Abraham Lincoln was the first president from the republican party.
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It allowed people in territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether they should allow slavery within their border.
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Since slaves were property, slave owners had the right to take their slaves into free states and territories, they couldn't become free just by being in a free state/territory.
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It caused seven Southern states to secede from the union to form the confederate states of America. It separated them even more.
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These are the first 7 states that seceded from the U.S to form the confederate states: South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Mississippi, Florida, and Louisiana.
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Abraham Lincoln is sworn in as 16th president of the United States of America on April 12, 1861 - at 4:30am confederate Gen. pierre Beauregard open fire with 50 Cannors upon fort Sumeter in Charleston, South Carolina. The civil war begin
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The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of First Manassas, was fought on July 21 near the city of Manassas. The confederate won this battle.
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Confederate of America was formed on February 4. They were known as the gray rebels.
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Lincoln used the occasion of the Union victory at Antietam to issue a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all slaves in the rebellious states.
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Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant took Vicksburg (Mississippi, a victory that would prove to be the turning point of the war in the western theater.
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President Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth as he watched a play at Ford's Theater . He died early the next day.
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The war ended in Spring, Robert E. Lee surrendered the last major Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865.
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Lincoln was assassinated by an actor and confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C.
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The 14 amendment was passed to gave African American citizenship and said that states had to provide equal protection for all.
