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Missouri Compromise
Missouri enters as a slave state, Maine enters as a free state. N 36° 36" marks the line that one side there is the Union and tthe other side is the Confederates. -
Compromise of 1850
California enters as a free state, slave trade is abolished in Washington D.C, and fugitive slave law was amended. -
fugitive slave law
It was part of the compromise of 1850. It required all slaves to be returned to their owners, if they escaped to a free state. -
Kansas-Nebraska act
It says that Kansas and Nebraska will determine to be a slave or free state, by the vote of the people. -
Bleeding kansas
It was a seires of violent polictical confrontations involving antislavery and proslavery. -
Dred Scott decision
It was a case that was saying if blacks had to return to their plantation if they were in a free state. This case proved that a slave was property not a citizen. -
Douglas-Lincoln Debates
They were a series of debates that went on between Lincoln and Douglas. People then know Lincoln's name -
Harper's ferry
It was an attempt to start a slave revolt. Abolistionists led by John Brown captured the arsenal at Harper's ferry. John Brown was captured and hung. -
Election of 1860
It's kind of the start of the war. Lincoln versus Breckrenridge and Lincoln wins. South Carolina then sucedes -
Fort Sumter
General Beaugard (Confederate) had open fire on the union, at Fort Sumter. The Union soon surrendered and evacuated the next day. -
Bull Run
It is the first major battle fought. The Union marched from Washington to a river called bull run. The South won and set the Union retreating back to Washington. -
Fort Donelson
The Union began their assault nearby Fort Donelson, the Confederates fail to get past the Union's lines, and they surrender. -
Battle of Pea RIdge
The Union pushed the Confederates forces into Arkansas. In the two day battle the Union drove out the south. This secured Arkansaa as a Union state. -
Battle of Shiloh
The South suprise attacked the Union, It took awhile, but soon the Confederates were surrounded. The Union gained the control of Missouri and Northren Arkansas -
2nd Bull run
Union thought that they had trapped the confederates, so they launched a series of assaults. Another southern army came and help them to fight. They crushed the Union. -
Antietam
The union attacked the confederates and forced them to retreat. Lincoln was very pleased with his army. -
Fredericksburg
The union crossed the river where the south was. When the north got there, within a couple hours, the south wiped out the union. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln issued this document saying that all slaves shall be free. This was a measure of war only, later the 13th amendment was the document that formally got rid of slavery. -
Vicksburg
The union trapped the south, forcing them to surrender. -
Gettysburg
They south marched to northern Virgina and clashed with the union. The confederatesare soon surrounded, they called in more troops, but eventually had to retreat. -
Theory of total war
It is a war that weapons, territory and all the nations resources are used. -
13th Amendment
This document formally stated that slavery was abolished in the US, for everyone, not just in war. -
Sherman's march to the sea
The union marched from Altanta to Georgia to frighten the confederates; they attacked well and captured the port of Savannah. -
Appomattox Courthouse
It was one of the last battles of the Civil War. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Grant. The war was over. The North/ Union had won. -
Death of Lincoln
Lincoln was killed at the Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. by John Booth.
