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Missouri Compromise
A compromise to let states enter as either a slave state or a free state by a longitude line to keep the peace. -
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Nat Turner Slave Rebellion
Nat Turner tried to get slaves to rise up against their owners and they killed over 60 whites. -
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War with Mexico
A war with Mexico over the land of modern-day Texas, Nevada, and New Mexico. -
Wilmot Proviso
Tried to pass a law that would close slavery in new states that we got from Mexico. -
Compromise of 1850
More states came in as free and the fugitive slave laws became more enforced. -
Fugitive Slave Act
When slaves escaped up north the owner could go and get them. -
Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin
A novel about a southern plantation that opened the eyes of the northerners. -
Kansas- Nebraska Act
Let Kansas and Nebraska decide whether they were free or slave by popular sovereignty, leading to Bleeding Kansas. -
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Bleeding Kansas
Mini-war over the fact of popular sovereignty and whether or not they would be a free or slave state. -
Dred Scott Decision
Slaves were deemed not citizens and the MC of 1850 was deemed unconstitutional. -
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John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown raided the national arsenal and was tried as a traitor. -
Abraham Lincoln elected president
This election made the southerners extremely mad. -
South Carolina secedes
The first to secede after Abe was elected. -
Formation of the Confederate State of America
All 11 states had seceded at this point and the north knew the war was just beginning. -
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Fort Sumter
The first battle of the civil war. -
Antietam
Battle on union ground, union victory, bloodiest single-day battle -
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Vicksburg
North takes over the Mississippi river -
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Gettysburg
Battle on union ground bloodiest multi-day battle -
Appomattox Courthouse
Where the treaty was signed so the war was over.
