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Missouri Compromise
was a settlement reached between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery states in Congress and their opposing views on the extension of slavery into new territories -
Nat Turner Slave Rebellion
was a slave revolt led by their religious leader, Nat Turner, that started on August 21, 1831 and was quashed within 48 hours. Nat Turner had been joined by about 60 slaves who killed up to 65 white people. -
War with Mexico
The Mexican- American war was a war provoked by the United States, in efforts to expand the coasts of the country. Mexico was a small under privileged country who had previously to the war had already lost part of their country (Texas). -
Wilmont Proviso
an unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War. The conflict over the Wilmot Proviso was one of the major events leading to the American Civil War. -
Compromise of 1850
defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War -
Fugitive Slave Act
provided southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states -
Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin
it pushed the debate forward on slavery. Many Southerners denounced the book, while it helped shore up support in the North for the abolitionist movement. It continued to nudge slavery towards a spotlight problem for the United States -
Bleeding Kansas
Border War was a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
It allowed Kansas and Nebraska weather or not to allow slavery within their boarders -
The Dred Scott Decision
landmark decision of the US Supreme Court in which the Court held that the US Constitution was not meant to include American citizenship for black people, regardless of whether they were enslaved or free -
John Brown's Raid on Harper Ferry
an effort by abolitionist John Brown, from October 16 to 18, 1859, to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln Is elected president -
South Carolina Secedes
South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union -
Fort Sumter
Confederate forces fired on US troops here in April 1861, beginning the Civil War. -
Formation of the confederate state of America
The Confederacy was formed on February 8, 1861, by the seven secessionist slave states: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. -
Antietam
was a battle of the American Civil War, fought on September 17, 1862, between Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union Gen. George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac, near Sharpsburg, Maryland and Antietam Creek -
Vicksburg
uccessfully besieged by Union forces. The last Confederate outpost on the river, its loss effectively split the secessionist states in half. -
Gettysburg
a historic agricultural and commercial borough in south central Pennsylvania, scene of a critical Civil War battle -
Appomattox Courthouse
near the town of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. Days earlier, Lee had abandoned the Confederate capital of Richmond and the city of Petersburg
