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Underground railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of people, offering shelter and aid to escaped slaves from the South, but it operated from the late 18th century to the Civil War, at which point its efforts continued to undermine the Confederacy in a less-secretive fashion. -
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Compromise of 1850
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'Bleeding Kansas'
Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent civil confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas. The conflict was characterized by years of electoral fraud, raids, assaults, and retributive murders carried out by anti-slavery and pro-slavery in Kansas and neighboring Missouri. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30' -
Dred Scott Decision
On March 6th in 1857, the United States Supreme Court issues a decision in the Dred Scott case, affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories, there by negating the doctrine of popular sovereignty and severely undermining the platform of the newly created Republican Party.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/dred-scott-decision
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Secession of the Southern States
The Confederate States of America was a collection of 11 states that seceded from the United States in 1860 following the election of President Abraham Lincoln. Led by Jefferson Davis and existing from 1861 to 1865, the Confederacy struggled for legitimacy and was never recognized as a sovereign nation. After suffering a crushing defeat in the Civil War, the Confederate States of America ceased to exist.
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Election of 1860
In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln ran against John C. Breckinridge, Stephen A. Douglas, and John Bell. Abraham Lincoln then won the election, leading to the south seceding before he was put into office.
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Fort Sumter is fired upon
When President Abraham Lincoln announced plans to resupply the fort, Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard bombarded Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. After a day and a half of exchanged artillery fire, Anderson and 86 soldiers surrendered the fort on April 13. -
Battle at Bull Run
On July 21, 1861, Union and Confederate armies clashed near Manassas Junction, Virginia, in the first major land battle of the American Civil War. Known as 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
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Battle of Vicksburg
From the spring of 1862 until July 1863, during the American Civil War, Union forces waged a campaign to take the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg, Mississippi, which lay on the east bank of the Mississippi River, halfway between Memphis to the north and New Orleans to the south. The Siege of Vicksburg divided the Confederacy and proved the military genius of Union General Ulysses S. Grant. -
Battle at shiloh
the Battle of Shiloh took place from April 6 to April 7, 1862, and was one of the major early engagements of the American Civil War. The battle began when the Confederates launched a surprise attack on Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant in southwestern Tennessee. After initial successes, the Confederates were unable to hold their positions and were forced back,resulting in a Union victory.
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Seven days battle
The Seven Days Battle or Seven battle featured six different battles along the Virginia Peninsula east of Richmond. The Union Army of the Potomac led by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, was over 100,000 men steadily driven away from the ultimate goal of Richmond and back to the James River by Confederates led by a new field commander Gen. Robert E. Lee. -
Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam, also called the Battle of Sharpsburg, occurred September 22, 1862, at Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland. It pitted Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia against Union General George McClellan’s Army of the Potomac and was the culmination of Lee’s attempt to invade the north. -
Emancipation Proclamation
all people were forever free While the Emancipation Proclamation did not free a single slave it was an important turning point in the war, transforming the fight to preserve the nation into a battle for human freedom -
Battle at Gettysburg/Gettysburg Address
On July 1, the advancing Confederates clashed with the Union’s Army of the Potomac, commanded by General George G. Meade, at the crossroads town of Gettysburg. The next day saw even heavier fighting, as the Confederates attacked the Federals on both left and right, after a tough fight lasting over three days the union eventually won and drove Robert E. Lees army out of Gettysburg. -
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Reconstruction
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South surrenders
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Lincoln's Assassination
Lincoln was assassinated by confederate symphathizer John Wilkes Booth at fords theater. His assassination happened a few daysafter the surrender at Appomattox Court House of Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia to Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, which had signaled the effective end of the American Civil War. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, is published. The novel sold 300,000 copies within three months and was so widely read that when President Abraham Lincoln met Stowe in 1862.
