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This was an attempt of keeping slaves in the south by making some sates free and some being pro-slavery.
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Dred Scott had failed to gain his freedom as a slave.
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John Brown had raided Harper's Ferry in protest of slaves.
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A ship called the Star of the West arrived in Charleston with over 200 U.S. troops and supplies going to Fort Sumter. South Carolina militia batteries fired upon the ship when it neared Charleston Harbor, forcing it to turn back to sea.
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The first major battle of the civil war.
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This was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history with a combined tally of 22,717 dead, wounded, or missing.
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This document states that all people held as slaves within the rebellious states are now set free.
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This is the last battle of the civil war.
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This war only lasted 3 days and had the most deaths out of all battles in the civil war.
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Union forces in Mississippi under Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant assaulted Missionary Ridge and beat the Confederate Army of Tennessee, forcing it to retreat to Georgia.
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Confederate general Robert E. Lee submitted to Union general-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant, all but ending the American Civil War.
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John Wilkes Booth shot him in the back of the head with a .44 caliber Derringer at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C.
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The thirteenth amendment had officially abolished slavery.
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A series of statutes meant to help keep the United States together after the devastation of the Civil War.
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Congress overruled Stanton's suspension and Grant resigned his position.
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One of the most disputed presidential elections in American history. Samuel J. Tilden of New York won agents Ohio's Rutherford B. Hayes in the popular vote, and had 184 electoral votes to Hayes' 165, with 20 votes uncounted.
