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The Compromise of 1850
This was a package of bills passed by the United States that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the territories that the U.S. acquired from Mexico. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It created the areas of Kanas and Nebraska and let them decide if the were slave or free states. -
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Bleeding Kansas
A decade long conflict in the territory of Kansas. Over what kind of state Kansas should be slave or free. -
Pattowatomie Creek
This was when a Man named John Brown took 5 of his men and went and murdered 5 pro slavery men -
Dred Scott vs. Stanford Decision
Dred Scott vs Stanford was when they chose that blacks could not be citizens. It made it so slavery was constitutional. -
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Harper Ferry Raid
This was an effort led by John Brown to have a slave revolt by taking over the U.S. Arsenal in Harpers Ferry. -
Crittenden Plan is proposed
Senator Crittenden proposed a series of Constitutional amendments that guaranteed slavery in southern states and territories, denied the federal government interstate slave trade regulatory power, and offered to compensate enslavers whose enslaved people had escaped. -
South Carolina Secedes
This was when South Carolina chose to leave the U.S. -
Anaconda Plan
Anaconda plan military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War. The plan called for a naval blockade of the Confederate littoral. -
Lincoln Inaugurated
Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address was delivered on Monday, March 4, 1861, as part of his taking of the oath of office for his first term as the sixteenth President of the United States. -
Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter is an island fortification located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina most famous for being the site of the first shots of the Civil War. -
North Carolina joins the Confederacy
N.C. was the last state to join the Confederacy -
The First Battle of Bull Run
The engagement began when about 35,000 Union troops marched from the federal capital in Washington, D.C. to strike a Confederate force of 20,000 along a small river known as Bull Run. -
First Federal Income Tax
On August 5, 1861, President Lincoln imposes the first federal income tax by signing the Revenue Act to impose a 3 percent tax on annual incomes over $800. -
Confederacy imposes the draft
This was when the Confederacy imposed to have a draft for the war. -
Surrender of Fort Henry
The Battle of Fort Henry was fought on February 6, 1862, in Donelson, Stewart County, Tennessee, during the American Civil War. It was the first important victory for the Union and Brig. -
Battle of Fort Donelson
he Battle of Fort Donelson was fought from February 11–16, 1862, in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. The Union capture of the Confederate fort near the Tennessee Kentucky border opened the Cumberland River. -
Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack
in the American Civil War, naval engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, a harbour at the mouth of the James River. -
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Battle of Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh was an early battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee. -
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The Seven Days' Battle
Seven battles over seven days became know as the Seven Days' Battle, and it took place near Richmond, Virginia -
First African Americans are recruited for the War.
This was when the first African Americans could fight in the War. -
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Second Battle of Bull Run
The Confederate forces won a second time in the same place one year later, which pushed the war in the Confederates' favor. -
Emancipation Proclomation
The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
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Siege of Vicksburg
The first of two battles that majorly shifted the war in the Union's favor after a large union win -
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Battle of Gettysburg
The second of two battles that swung the war in the Union's favor. Gettysburg is considered the most famous battle of the Civil War. -
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Siege of Petersburg
This battle was famous for the use of trench warfare in its most extreme use -
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Sherman's March to the Sea
Sherman's March to the Sea was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 until December 21, 1864, by William Tecumseh Sherman, major general of the Union Army. -
13th amendment is passed
The 13th amendment made slavery illegal everywhere -
Freedman's Bureau Established
An organization dedicated to helping newly freed slaves and impoverished southerners by giving them food, medicine, and clothing was founded. -
Confederate Forces surrender
This was when the war was coming to an end and the Confederate Forces Surrendered. On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate troops to the Union's Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, marking the beginning of the end of the grinding four-year-long American Civil War -
Lincoln is assassinated
President Lincoln is shot and killed by John Wilkes Booth, leaving the office to Andrew Johnson -
Presidential Reconstruction begins
Andrew Johnson's plan to rebuild the Union from its now broken form begins in May of 1865, and the plan is called Presidential Reconstruction. -
Ku Klux Klan is founded
In Pulaski, Tennessee, a group of Confederate veterans convenes to form a secret society that they christen the “Ku Klux Klan.” -
The Civil Rights Act of 1866
The act defining citizenship is passed and officially upheld -
First State restored to Union
Tennessee rejoins the union, becoming the first Confederate state to rejoin. -
Grant is elected president
In 1865, as commanding general, Ulysses S. Grant led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. As an American hero, Grant was later elected the 18th President of the United States -
15th amendment is passed
“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” The 15th Amendment guaranteed African-American men the right to vote. -
The last Confederate state rejoin
Georgia is the last state to rejoin the union after the war. -
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Panic of 1873
The Panic of 1873 was a financial crisis that triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America that lasted from 1873 to 1877 or 1879 in France and in Britain. In Britain, the Panic started two decades of stagnation known as the "Long Depression" that weakened the country's economic leadership. -
The Compromise of 1877
The Compromise of 1877 was an informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election; through it Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the White House on the understanding that he would remove the federal troops from South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana.