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Admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Set a precedent that would later be broken for deciding free and slave states.
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A slave rebellion that resulted in harsher slave laws.
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A proposal that was shot down. It was a proposal to ban slavery in newly acquired territories from Mexico
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Stemmed from border disputes and claims of Texas. America wins and takes a large amount of territory
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Repealed the Missouri Compromise. Permitted Popular Sovereignty over the issue of Slavery.
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Admitted California as a new state, left Utah and New Mexico to decide for themselves whether to be a slave state or a free state, added the fugitive slave law.
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Requires escaped slaves to be returned to their owners in the south.
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Depicts horrors of being a slave and treatment of slaves. Lays groundwork for divide between North and South.
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Conflict over the popular sovereignty in Kansas, and over whether it should be free or slave. Mini-Civil War.
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Supreme Court Case that said slaves are not legally citizens.
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Abolitionists raiding a US Arsenal attempting to start a slave revolt.
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Republican wins the election without a single southern state. This was the final nail in the coffin for the south.
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South Carolina is fed up and finally declares themselves no longer a part of the USA
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The CSA is formed and both sides are ready for war.
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First battle of the Civil War. In Charleston, South Carolina.
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Bloodiest single day conflict in the Civil War. North would win and the South would fail to move into the North.
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Turning point of the war. South would once again fail to move into the North.
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Gave the Union control of the Mississippi River. Completed the Anaconda plan and cut the South in two.
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Robert E Lee surrenders and ends the Civil War at Appomatox.
