Civil War

By Qazzy3000

  • Missouri Compromise

    Maine is a free state & Missouri is a slave state South of 3630' are slave states North of it are free states, except for Missouri

  • Abolition

    getting rid of slavery

  • Santa Fe Trail

    780miles from Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe in Mexico.

  • San Felipe de Austin

    Stephen Austin was granted permission from Mexico to set up a colony devoid of depravity in Texas

  • The Liberator

    newspaper against slavery written by William Lloyd Garrison.

  • Mexico Abolishes Slavery

    American texans didn't want to free their slaves

  • Nat Turner's Rebellion

    killed 50 whites, but the rebellion ended up failing.

  • Stephen F. Austin goes to jail

    He encouraged revolution in Texas

  • Texas Revolution

    Texas becomes independant in 1836

  • Oregon Trail

    Independence to Oregon City
    first traveled by two Methodist missionaries
    proved wagons could trazvel on the Oregon trail

  • Manifest Destiny

    Americans thought their god wanted them to expand west to the Pacific Ocean.

  • Texas enters the United States

    President James K. Polk adopts Texas

  • Mexican-American War

    Mexico was angry at the U.S. about Texas & Polk wanted war

  • The North Star

    written by Fredrick Douglass against slavery

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    The U.S. pays $15 mil for a ton of territory

  • Harriet Tubman

    escaped to Philadelphia & helped the underground railroad

  • Compromise of 1850

    attampted to appease the North & South on the issue of slavery

  • Fugitive Slave Act

    harsh treatment & no trial for alleged runaway slaves & helpers

  • Underground Railroad

    people helped runaway slaves escape

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    written by Harriet Beecher Stowe book against slavery

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    let them vote for if they want slavery or not

  • Dred Scott v. Sandford

    Dred Scott sppealed for his freedom & lost

  • Abraham Lincoln & Stephen Douglas Debates

    Douglass won

  • John Brown's raid/Harper's Ferry

    led 21 men to an arsenal for a slave uprising & failed He was put to death

  • Abraham Lincoln becomes president

    gets less that half the popular vote & no southern electoral votes

  • Formation of the Confederacy

    The South left the Union

  • Attack on Fort Sumter

    Fort Sumter gets no reinforcements, only provisions

  • Battle of Bull Run

    Confederates, led by Thomas(Stonewall) Jackson, won

  • Battle at Antietam

    Union victory, but Mccellan wasted a chance to end the war

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Lincoln freed the slaves

  • Conscrption

    forced servitude in the army

  • Income Tax

    percentage of a person's pay

  • Battle at Vicksburg

    Grant, Union general, wins

  • Battle at Gettysburg

    The North defeats Robert Lee 23,000-28,000

  • Gettysburg address

    Lincoln spoke in an inspiring way for a couple minutes

  • Sherman's March

    in total war Union general, Sherman, rampages through georgia

  • Surrender at Appomattox Court House

    Grant and Lee met in the court house to discuss Lee's surrender

  • Thirteenth Amendment

    outlawed slavery