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The Missouri Compromise
Was a bill passed by congress to grant Missouri to be a slave state, but for any other states in the Louisiana Purchase to prohibit slavery. -
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The Mexican War
Many of the Officers in the Civil War were made officers because of the Mexican War. Some of the better known such as Grant and Lee. -
Compromise of 1850
It was an act passed that made Califorina a free state and made New Mexico and Utah vote on slavery. It also destroyed the slave trade district in Washington D.C. . -
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Was a bill passed that allowed slave owners to hunt and return escaped slaves. It also made citizens assit in the capture of the said slave. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bill passed that created the states of Kansas-Nebraska and made them vote to see if they were to be free or slave state. I -
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Bleeding Kansas
This was a timespan were Kansas was a slave state and Nebraska was a free state after the Kansas-Nebraska Act. It became volient and Kansas selleters were attacked by free state supporters. -
‘Bleeding Sumner’ Brooks-Sumner fight
Was a fight betweeen Charles Summer and Preston Brooks after Summer gave a speech on why Kansas should be a free state. It made both men heros on thier side of slavery. -
Dred Scott Decision
Was a decision by the surpreme court saying that slaves in a free state were not citizens. -
John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, Virginia
John Brown was an free state supporter and him and his followers raided Harpers Ferry trying to free slaves and hoping they would join him. Shortly after this happened Gen. Robert E. Lee captured him and he was put on tiral and then put to death. -
Election of 1860
This was the election that Lincoln was elected and he was heavly against slavery. -
South Carolina secedes from Union
South Carolina seceded from the Union because of Lincoln. Not one voter voted for him in South Carolina. This made other states leave the Union and this made the Confederacy. -
Battle of Fort Sumter, 1861
Was the first fight of the Civil War. -
The Union’s ‘Anaconda Plan’
Was a plan to take control of the southern ports and then take the mississippi river to split the south in half. -
Battle of Antietam
Was the battle were the most soilders died in one day. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Was a act that eneded slavery. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Was the bloodiest battle of the civil war. -
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Sherman’s March to the Sea
Was the Sanvanh campiagn of the war were Sherman took over Gorgeia. -
Confederate Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
This eneded the war and all slavery.