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The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an act of slavery, It was an effort to create balance of power in congress between free and slave states.At this time parts of the u.s did not want slavery and having missouri become part of the u.s was worrysome because missouri is a slave state. Meaning they were scared they were going to spread slavery. While maine was a free state and missouri was slave and was part of the compromise -
Underround railroad
Harriet Tubman was a freed slave.Although she escaped from slavery she returned to slave-holding states 19 times to help other slaves escape. she led them safely to the northern free states and to canada. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas Nebraksa act allowed for slavery in all areas due to popular sovernity. It alowed the people in kansas and nebraska to decide whether or not to allow slavery within the borders. -
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas
Lincoln and Douglas discussed issues of slavery ans state rights. Lincoln thought that slavery was morally wrong and opposed the expansion of it. Douglas advocated the idea that the people in the territories shall decide for slavery or not -
Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter was the first battle of the Civil War. South Carolina fired the first shot of the Civil War. -
Battle of the bull run
This was the first major land based confrontation of the americsn civil war. The engagement began when about 35,000 union troops marched from the federal capitial in washington, D.C to strike a confederate force of 20,000 along a small river known as Bull Run. -
Emancipation Proclamtion
An act created by Abraham Lincoln decalring that all slaves in states that were in rebellion would be freed as of January 1, 1863. Lincolns intention was to preserve the union. -
Battle of Gettysburg
A civil war battle fought between union army of potomsc commanded by general George Meade and Confederate Army og Northern Virginia led by Robert E Lee. The three day battle was fought from July 1-3, 1863 near the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. -
Total war
From November 15 until December 21, 1864 Union General William T, Sherman led some 60,000 soldiers on a 285- mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. The purpose of this march of the sea was to frighten georgias civilian population into abandoning the confederate cause. -
Surrender at Appomattox
Conferate General Robert E Lee surrendered his approximately 29,000 troops to union general Ulysses s. grant in the front parlor of Wilmer McLeans home in Appomattox court house, Virginia effectively ending the American Civil War. Union forces cut off his final retreat, Lee was forced to surrender finally ending 4 years of bloody sectional conflict.
