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Missouri would become a slave state and Maine would become a free state.
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Nat Turner an enslaved man who led a rebellion of enslaved people.
August 21, 1831 – August 23, 1831 -
A paper was made to get rid of slavery, but did not work out.
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An armed conflict between the United States and Mexico.
April 25, 1846 – February 2, 1848 -
Dealt with the issue of slavery and territorial expansion.
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The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state.
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A book about that describes slavery.
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Allowed the people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
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A 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, and so the rights and privileges that the Constitution confers upon American citizens could not apply to them.
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Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harper's Ferry, Virginia in an attempt to start an armed revolt of enslaved people and destroy the institution of slavery.
October 16, 1859 – October 18, 1859 -
The north elected Lincoln, while not a single person voted for him in the south, but he still won.
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The first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the United States.
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A fight between the south and the north in Kansas.
1855 – 1861 -
The first battle in the Civil War.
April 12, 1861 – April 13, 1861 -
A battle of the American Civil War, between Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union Gen. George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac.
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The turning point in the Civil War.
Jul 1, 1863 – Jul 3, 1863 -
The Union controlled the entire Mississippi River, and the Confederacy was split in half.
May 18, 1863 – July 4, 1863 -
Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender of his Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant.
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The states that had seceded the united states had formed their own confederate states of america.
February 8, 1861 to May 9, 1865
