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Henry Clay presented the compromise to the Senate. Clay's compromise contained provisions to appease Northerners a well as Southerners.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe published this novel. Uncle Tom's Cabin stressed that slavery was not just a political contest, but also a great moral struggle.
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Senator Stephen Douglas introduced a bill in congress that would divide the area into two territories: Nebraska in the North and Kansas in the South.
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A series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery "Free-States" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian", or "southern" elements in Kansas. Furious over these events, abolitionists organized a rival government in Topeka. Long before bloody violence surfaced in the struggle for Kansas, earning the territory the name "Bleeding Kansas".
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Sumter was one of four forts left in Union hands. Lincoln sent food and medicines to hungry men. Davis sends orders to take Sumter, PGT open fired on Fort Sumter.
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The Confederacy is formed. Civil War begins.
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McClellan ordered his men to pursue LEe, and the two sides fought near a creek called the Antietam. The clash proved to be the bloodiest single-day battle in American history killing more than 26,000.
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Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation.
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Confederate soldiers uncounted several brigades of Union cavalry under the command of John Buford. The 3 day battle produced staggering losses, 23,000 Union men and 28,000 Confederates were killed.
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In the spring of 1864, Sherman began his march southeast through Georgia to the sea, creating a wide path of destruction. His army burned almost every house in its path and destroyed livestock.
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At Our American Cousin, during the third act, a man crept up behind Lincoln and shot the president in the back of the head.
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Congress voted to enlarge the Freedmen's Bureau and passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866. That law gave African Americans citizenship and forbade states from passing discrimination laws- black codes- that severely restricted African Americans lives.
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The House impeached Johnson, but he remained in office after Senate voted not to convict.
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The clans goals were to destroy the Republican party. THey killed perhaps 20,000 people.
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Democratic candidate SMuel J. Tilden won the popularvote, but was one vote short of the electoral victory. Hayes was elected and Reconstruction ended in the South.
