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The Underground Railroad
This was a series of safehouses and routes used to transport slaves to freedom in the North -
Compromise of 1850
A series of bills that would help avert crisis between the North and South -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This was a antislavery novel published by Harriet Beacher Stowe in 1852, this book made racial tenisions higher in the U.S. -
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Bleeding Kansas ( Border Wars)
Many violent confrontations in the United States coming from political strife over legality of slavery in Kansas -
Kansas-Nebraska act
This was a bill passed to allow the people of Kansas to chose whether or not they wanted slavery. -
Dred Scott Decision
This federal decision made it so that slave owners could take their slaves and then free them when this was originally not case, this was one of the first big steps to ending slavery in the United States. -
Election of 1860
This election was held on November, 6th 1860 between Abraham Lincoln, John C. Brekinridge, Stephen A. Douglas and, John Bell. Abraham Lincoln won the majority vote becoming the 16th president of the U.S. -
Secession of Southern States
On December 20th 1860 South Carolina was the first state to succeed from the union, many states followed suit and they ended up forming the Confederate States of America (C.S.A.) -
Civil War Begins
On April 12th the Confederate Army attacked the Northern stronghold, Fort Sumter, Only 1 person and one horse died and it only lasted one day but kicked off the bloodiest war U.S. history. -
Battle of Bull Run
This was the first major battle of the Civil War and it was
a Confederate victory giving the control of the city of Manassas to the south -
Battle at Shiloh
This battle was fought in the western theater of the war in Tennessee it was the bloodiest battle until the battle of Antietam it was a decisive union victory -
Seven Days Battle
This was a series of six major battles that went on from June 25th to July 1st !862, it was a big win for the south stopping the northern army from marching on Richmond, the southern capitol. -
Battle of Antietam
This was the bloodiest day in United States history with a combined death toll of 22,717 dead or wounded. -
Emancipation Proclamation
This was a speech made by Abraham Lincoln that abolished slavery in the United States -
The Battle of Vicksburg
This was the blast major military action in the Vicksburg campaign that lasted from May 18th to July 4th 1863 this was a major victory for the north it was the last major stronghold on the Mississippi river. -
Battle of Gettysburg/
This was the bloodiest battles in U.S. history with a combined total causality count of over 600,000 men wounded or dead it was a major victory for the south.. -
Gettysburg Address
This was a speech made by Abraham
Lincoln on November, 11th 1863to commemorate all the union soldiers who died at the battle of Gettysburg -
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Reconstruction
This was a period where the North helped the South rebuild after the war -
South Surrenders
At the Appomattox Courthouse Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant on April,9th 1865 -
Lincolns Assassination
On April,14th 1865 John Wilkes Booth shot and killed Abraham Lincoln at the Ford Theater while he was watching a show. His death shook the nation.
