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One party started another. Democrats wanted slavery but the debate stayed running. Abe lincoln gets presidency, abe wasnt a ballet for some states.
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congress set boundary allowing Missouri up to have slavery but not the North. Fugitive slave walk was too contraversal and didnt pass. The compromise finally went through.
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Compromise between North and South that the north had to return escaped slaves.
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Slaves used this to escape to the North and Canada. Over 100,000 people used this system;however only 3,000 people ran it. This was the biggest transportation system for slaves during this time.
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Major debate on whether slavery should be allowed or not in certain areas. Slavery side won majority of the votes with John Brown leading the attack.
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Believed spread of slavery threatened the free labor system. Opposed slavery on moral grounds.
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Imediate impact on the US politics. African American slaves went againest Missouri compromise. Scott was a freed slave by Missouri courts but supreme court overwhelmed.
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Abe Lincoln made the election. Steve Douglas ruined chances in presidency in 1860. Steve won the debate.
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John brown was a white, radical abolitanist. Raided Harper's ferry with 18 people and was captured by Robert E. Lee. South blamed all northerners for helping.
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11 states left the union; with Robert E. Lee as the general of the confederate army. Jefferson Davis was elected to be president for Mississippi. 1,861 delegates from deep south assembled together.
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First battle of the civil war.
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First land battle of the civil war.
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The most famous speech ever given by President Lincoln. The gettysburg address is considered a monumental act.
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A union victory that stopped confederate. General robert e. lee's second invasion of the North . More than 50,000 men fell as casualties during the 3 day battle , making it the bloodiest battle of the American civil war.
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Lincolns plan of Reconstructing the Union as a whole after the war. The plans did not go theough because he was shot by John Wilkes Booth and Andrew Johnson
