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Civil War Events
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Compromise of 1850
Resolved the North and Sounth confrontation over the Mexican-Amercian War territories, It resulted in texas giving up missouri and New Mexico, in return for money to pay off there dept. Also California became a free state. The South gained a stronger fugative slave act. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
It was a bill passed in 1854, which focused on the idea of popular sovreignty, which gave the people of the terriotory the right to decide whether or not slavery would be legal in that state.It lead to bleeding Kansas and eventually the civil war. -
Bleeding Kansas
It was a period whilst Kansas was determing whether to be a slave or free state, It became known as bleeding Kansas due to intense vioolence from both those who were free-state and slave-state. John Browns anti-slavery raids are an example of this repeated violence. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred scott was a save who was taken from a slave state south to a free state in the north, when his master died he sued to be free because he had been living in a free state for so long. He lost his case because we was once a slave therefore could not be a citezen and could not sue. This demonstrated the unfair treatment slaves had which developed more tension between the north and the south. -
Lincoln-douglas debates
There were multiple public political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas as they wanted a seat in the senate for illinois, They agreed to debate in 7 different locations with a similar structure at each. However both abolitionalists they had different views, such as douglas believed in popular sovreignty and Lincoln did not. -
Harpers Ferry
Lead by john brown, a group of men headed towrds harpers ferry capturing people and seized the federal armory and arsenal. However it did not last long they were soon captured by the marines and killed. -
Lincoln's Election
He became the first Republican president of the United States, the 16th president total. His election led to the succesion of the southern states and the formation of the confederacy, due to Lincoln's antislavery veiws. -
Fort Sumter
It was housing Union troops when president Lincoln announced he would finally resupply it the confederate army attacked it for 34 hours, until it was finally surrended by Anderson and 86 soliders. Theses were the first shots of the Civil War. -
Bull Run
It was two months after Fort Sumter, In virginia the Battle of Bull Run was the first major battle of the Civil War. Irvin Mcdonnels army marched from washingtion, there was 35,000 of them representing the Union. Within one day of fighting the Union Army were defeated by the Confederates and heading home. -
Anietam
It is known as the bloodiest one day battle in American history. 23,000 soliders were either killed, wounded, or missing, after only 12 hours. It completed the invasion on the North by the Confederate army of Northern Virginia. It also led to Abraham lincoln announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation. -
Emancipation Proclmation
In the beginning the war was only to give control to the union, not to specificallly abolish slavery. As a war stratergy and also to be morally correct due to all the slaves joining the Union Army, that on January 1, 1863 all slaves in rebellius states will be freed. It changed the face of the war even though it didn't actually free any slaves. -
Battle of Gettysburg
It was Robert Lee's second invasion to the north and he was staying in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The Union army marched to meet and attempt to keep out Lee's army. The fighting began when parts of the each army accidently ran in to eachother in Gettysburg. Over 50,000 were either wounded or kilkled in this three day battle, of over 150,000 solidiers who fought. The Union were in victory, but president lincoln believed they could have finished the war there, -
Adersonvill Prison
It was the Confederates prison which was open for 14 months and during the time period 45,000 Union captives were held in that prison and of those about 13,000 almost died in the prison, due to overcrowding, disease and malnutrition. At the end of the war the prisoners were released however many scarred by the experience ended their time in the army. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
It occured only 5 days after the confederate army was forced to surrender. Lincoln was shot in the head whilst at Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth an actor and a confederate supporter. He also wanted to kill the two succesors of the president in hopes to disrupt the government, but failed. This event was a distraction from the glory of the war and lead the country to mourning instead. -
Reconstruction
After the war about 4 million slaves were freed however the transition for the south was not easy. They passed "black codes" to control the activities of the freed slaves, but this lead to fury in the north. This lead to a new method called radical reconstruction starting in 1867 and this allowd blacks to be involved in the government for the first time in history. There was also presidential reconstruction under Andrew Johnson.These were all attempts to once again form an American Nation. -
Surrender at appomattox
Robert Lee was attempting a final invasion however his army was surrounded and exhausted he had no choice but to surrender the war. It was the southern states surrender to attempting to make a sepertate union to the Northern. It lead to the development of a large federal union for the whole country.
