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The Missouri compromise
It made tension go up between people that have slaves and people that are against it. -
Mexican War
Texas wanted independence and started fighting with mexcio and it effected efforts to abolish slavery. -
Compromise of 1850
A four year meeting of the slave states and the free states. -
Fugitive slave act of 1850
It made it where if a slave escaped it had to returened to its master no matter what. -
Kansas-Nebraska act
It was where settelers of a territory got to decide if slaves where allowed or not -
Bleeding Kansas
It was a war between anti-slavery and pro slavery in Kansas and missouri. -
Bloody sumner
Sumner went to far about the slavery thing and brooks beat him with a cane. -
Dred scott decision
The suprem court said slave owners have rights to take their slaves to the western territories -
John Brown's raid on harpers ferry
John Brown try to start a armed slavery revolt -
South Carolina secedes from Union
South Carolina and 6 other states seceded from the union -
Election of 1860
Southern democrats thought Douglas was a traitor for letting territories choose to not have slaves -
Battle of Fort Sumter
This battle started the civil war when Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard wanted surrender and Major Anderson refused. -
The Union’s ‘Anaconda Plan’
This plan was made to prevent war -
Battle of Antietam
This was the first American civil war fought on northern soil -
Emancipation Proclamation
Slaves became free -
Battle of Gettysburg
It is considered the most important fight in the American civil war -
Sherman’s March
General William T. Sherman led 60,000 from the Atlanta to Georgia and the soliders did not destroy any towns but did take livestock -
Confederate Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
General Robert E. Lee surrenderd 28,000 troops to the union and he was forced to surrender finally ending four years of bloody sectional conflict