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The Missouri Compromise created equal separation of free and slaved states. It was proved unconstitutional later on in time though.
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Nat Turner's Rebellion was a rebellion of black slaves in Virginia. The rebellion killed up to 65 people.
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The Wilmot Proviso was an unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War. The conflict over the Wilmot Proviso was one of the major events leading to the American Civil War.
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The war with Mexico was a war based off of Greed and Want. America wanted more land and decided to fight with greed for the southwest land we have today such as California, Texas, New Mexico. Arizona, Utah, Nevada, and Colorado.
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The compromise passed 5 separate bills that defused a political confrontation over slavery and free states and slaved states.
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The Fugitive Slave Act was the act to compromise the separation of slaves. It created a way for the North to free slaves but if the South's slaves travelled to the North, they must be brought home.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin is a book that was published during the time of slavery which changed the U.S eyes on slavery.
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Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, United States, between 1854 and 1859 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.
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This act allowed people in the territories in Nebraska and Kansas could decide for themselves, popular sovereignty.
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This was a court case that held Dred Scott, a slave, to being turned down his freedom from his widow's brother due to not being a citizen of the United States of America.
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John Brown lead a small group of abolitionist to Harper's Ferry on a raid against the federal armory in the town. His plan was to capture all the armory and arm the slaves to attack the slave owners.
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Abraham Lincoln was elected president and created major conflict in the country. The South found this as the last straw to leave the country and South Carolina was the first state to secede.
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South Carolina was the first state to secede from the united states which influenced the rest of the south.
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The formation of the Confederate States of America created conflict on the North American continent. The North and the South found their ways to battle to settle their differences.
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Fort Sumter is a sea fort in Charleston, South Carolina, notable for the first battle of which began the American Civil War. It was one of a number of special forts planned after the War of 1812.
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The Battle of Antietam particularly in the Southern United States, was 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, near Sharpsburg, Maryland and Antietam Creek.
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The Siege of Vicksburg was the final major military action in the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War.
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The Battle of Gettysburg was fought in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point.
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The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought in Appomattox County, Virginia, on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War.
