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The Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C. was abolished. Also, California entered the Union as a free state and a territorial government was created in Utah.
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It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
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This was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" in Kansas.
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The U.S. Supreme court ruled that a slave who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom.
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A series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for Senate in Illinois, and the Senator Stephen Douglas. Lincoln was made out to look like an abolitionist, when he was truly a free soiler
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John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by white abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry.
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Lincoln won the party's presidential nomination against Douglas.
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The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of U.S. Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, by the Confederates, and the return gunfire/ surrender by the U.S. Army that started the American Civil War.
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This battle was fought on July 21, 1861 in Prince William County, Virginia, near the city of Manassas, not far from Washington, D.C. It was the first major battle of the American Civil War.
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This battle was fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland Campaign.
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Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war.
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This battle was fought in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War.
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The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, one of the best-known in American history.
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Camp Sumter, a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the final twelve months of the American Civil War.
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The Battle of Appomattox Court House was one of the last battles fought in the American Civil War.
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John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate, shot and killed President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.
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The period following the Civil War of rebuilding the United States. It was a time of great pain and endless questions.
