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Package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which caused four-year political turmoil between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War.
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Antislavery supporters were outraged because, under the terms of the Missouri Compromise of 1820, slavery would have been outlawed in both territories. After months of debate, the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed on May 30, 1854.
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A series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery.
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Decision that African Americans could not be free
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Presidental debates involving slavery
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Attempt to start a slave revolt by John Brown- a white abolitionist.
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Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States
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The surrender of Fort Sumter that started the Civil War.
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executive order issued on January 1, 1863, by President Lincoln freeing slaves in all portions of the United States
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First Battle Of Civil War to be fought on Northern soil.
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A speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. Lincoln was speaking at the dedication of a soldiers' cemetery at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg- which was a battle won by the North.
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Notorious Confederate prison located in Andersonvillle, Georgia. At one point held as many as 33,000 people.
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16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865
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Transforming Southern and Northern Colonies after the war to create an equality setting.
