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Compromise of 1850
It was an attempt to compromise a crisis between the North and South the slave trade was abolished -
Kansas- NEBRASKA ACT
Popular sovereignty determined if the new state would be a free or slave state by voting and lead to Bleeding Kansas. -
Raid on Harper's Ferry
Jonh brown, who was an abolitionist, led a raid on a federal armory. This inflamed the tensions between the North and South -
Bull Run
happened in manassas, VA. A confusion caused the union to stop firing; confederacy overwhelmed the union allowing them to win. this prolonged the war significantly. -
Confederate states of America
Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida and others became the Confederate states of America. -
Fort Sumter
Happened in Charleston Harbor, SC, confederacy attacked the fort claming it as theirs when union wanted to resupply it. the confederacy won and sparks the start of war -
The Battle of Hampton Roads
Occured in the Virginia Coast and neither side won. The marked the end of wooden vessels and introduction of more durable, metal protected ships. -
Shiloh
This was the bloodiest battle and was the beginning of total war for both sides. It also ended southern control of Mississippi Valley -
Antietam
Union forced the confederacy to retreat but had a chance to finish them but they allowed them to escape. -
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Gettysburg
The union won and was seen as the beginning of the end for the south. -
Vicksburg
it was a major victory for the union and gave them control of the Mississippi River. It also showed the union can fight with few supplies. -
March to the Sea
General William Sherman marched his to destroying everything the confederacy valued by using the tactic " total war" -
Appomattox Courthouse
Lee and Grant agreed to end the war; confederacy surrendered. -
14th amendment
It gave African Americans citizenship and said the states had to provide equal protection for all. -
15th amendment
It guaranteed all men the right to vote -
Reconstruction ends
Union soldiers left the south and white southerners gain control of the south again
