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Lincoln took a good on a riverboat moving farm produce from Indiana to New Orleans. There he has his first contact with slavery when he observed a slave auction.
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Lincoln was elected to Congress.
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Admitted California to the Union as a free state and banned the buying and selling of slaves.
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Organized Kansas and Nebraska territories. Uses popular sovereignty to decide the question of slavery in Kansas and Nebraska territories.
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The Democrats won the election of 1856 by characterizing the Republicans as extremists on the slavery issue.
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Emphasized the divisions over the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Dred Scott decision. Caused Lincoln's opposition to slavery's spread to a national audience.
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Brown and his surviving followers were tried for murder and sentenced to death. Brown was executed.
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A battle between Lincoln and Douglass. Lincoln carried the more populous north and won the presidency.
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Representatives of the seven seceded states met in Montgomery, Alabama, to form a new nation. They wrote a constitution that specifically recognized slavery and guaranteed the rights of citizens to own slaves.
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Lincoln becomes president and he promised to not interfere with slavery where it existed.
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Confederate artillery opened fire on Fort Sumter.
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Lee ordered a surprise attack at dinnertime. This battle eas Lee's greatest victory.
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The bloodiest day of the Civil War . In the end of the battle, Antietam was considered a Union victory.
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Lincoln provided this document to free enslaved people in all areas that were in rebellion against the United States
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Was a three day battle, where less than half of the men that fought returned to the Confederate lines.
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Lincoln won this election. His victory led to Congress finally passing the 13th amendment, which ended slavery in the US.
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The postwar recovery period that lasted from 1865-1877. More than one fifths of South's male population had been gone. About 4 million African Americans living in the Confederacy won their freedom, but had an uncertain future
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John Wilkes shot Lincoln while he was watching a play. This meant Lincoln did not live to see the end of the war.
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The bill gave African American citizenship and guaranteed them the same legal rights as white Americans
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Republicans pushed this amendment which protected the voting rights of African American males and went into effect in 1870.
