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Congress passed a bill granting Missouri statehood as a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36th parallel, which runs approximately along the southern border of Missouri.
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The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil.
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It was a package of five separate bills passed in the United States in September 1850.
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This was one of the most controversial elements of the 1850 compromise and heightened Northern fears of a "slave power conspiracy".
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Was a 1854 bill that mandated “popular sovereignty”–allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders.
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Bleeding Kansas is the term used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory.
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On May 22, 1856, the "world's greatest deliberative body" became a combat zone.
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Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847.
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On the evening of October 16, 1859 John Brown, a staunch abolitionist, and a group of his supporters left their farmhouse hide-out en route to Harpers Ferry.
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By the election of 1860 profound divisions existed among Americans over the future course of their country, and especially over the South's "peculiar institution," slavery.
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South Carolina became the first Southern state to declare its secession and later formed the Confederacy.
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The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War.
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The first military strategy offered to President Abraham Lincoln for crushing the rebellion of Southern states was devised by Union General-in-Chief Winfield Scott.
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The Battle of Antietam, also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South.
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Was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863.
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In and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War.
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Sherman's March to the Sea is the name commonly given to the military Savannah Campaign in the American Civil War, conducted through Georgia
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On April 9, 1865 after four years of Civil War, approximately 630,000 deaths and over 1 million casualties, General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, at the home of Wilmer and Virginia McLean in the rural town of Appomattox Court House, Virginia.
