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Strengthen fugitive slave act but stopped further expansion of slavery.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin was a fictional book about a slave's life. That book made northerners realize what slavery was.
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Dred Scott was a slave traveling with his master and when they went into a free state he tried to sue his owner for freedom. This case was very important because it clarified that slaves were property and were not citizens so they could not sue.
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John Brown and his 2 sons were terrorist in the south and they tried to take over a armory. They thought that the slaves from surrounding plantations would help but no one came.
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Abraham did not win any votes in the South. After he was elected South Carolina was the first to leave the union.
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The Confederates bombed Fort Sumter which lasted 34 hours of firing. The Union soldiers surrendered at the end.
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It was a major trading depot and the south's largest city. This was really important because New Orleans is located at the base of the Mississippi river.
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First battle on northern soil and the most deadly.
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An executive order Abraham Lincoln signed which was to free all of the slaves in the confederate states.
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This battle put Ulysses S. Grant vs. Robert E. Lee and this swung the war into the Unions favor.
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He got re-elected for his 2nd term.
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General Lee was surrounded and so he had no choice but to surrender.
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John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre and went on one of America's biggest man hunt ever.
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A group called the KKK started and began recruiting old confederate soldiers and police officers and normal citizens in the south and they terrorized black people.
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Granted emancipated black people the right to sue, the right to serve on juries, and several other legal rights.
