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Harriet was once a slave and escaped the Maryland plantation. She traveled with her brothers but they decided to go back. With the help of the Underground Railroad, Harriet persevered and traveled 90 miles north to pennsylvania and freedom. She then went back to bring more and more slaves to freedom. -
An act passed to organize the territory of nebraska and to repeal the Missouri Compromise. Created 2 new territories and allowed for popular sovereignty. -
Brown took an army and raided Harpers Ferry to destroy the institution of slavery. His men rounded up a handful of hostages, including enslaved people. Word spread and Brown was sent to the gallows for treason and murder. -
One of the most pivotal presidential elections in American history. The main issue was slavery and states' rights. Lincoln became the 16th president of during a national crisis that would tear states and families apart. -
The Confederate states consisted of South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. They had a fear that the U.S. would take away their privilege to have slaves. So they declared its secession from the U.S., with the loyal states becoming known as the Union during the Civil War. -
Lincoln sent ships to resupply Fort Sumter after being bombarded by Confederate ships and soldiers. Confederate P.G.T heard of this and bombarded Fort Sumter, kicking off the Battle. After 34 hours of exchanged artillery fire, the Union surrendered the fort on April 13 -
Long before Lincoln took the oath of office, Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Harbor. Less than 34 hours later, Union forces surrendered. -
The first Battle of Bull Run (Battle of Manassas) was marked as the first major land battle. 35,000 Union troops marched to strike a Confederate force of 20,000 along a small river known as Bull Run. After fighting defensively for most of the day, the Confederate was able to break the Union and sending them into a chaotic retreat towards Washington. -
Jefferson Davis had been elected president of the Provisional Government of the confederacy on Feb. 9, 1861. A compromise between moderates and radicals was confirmed by the voters for a full 6 year term. -
The Emancipation Proclamation captured the hearts and imagination of millions of Americans and fundamentally transformed the character of the war. It declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the Confederate states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
After the Battle of Gettysburg, Lincoln delivered a short speech at the end of ceremonies dedicating the battlefield as a cemetery for the soldiers at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. -
Lincoln needed a Union victory to help him in the re-elections, so General William T. Sherman led some 60,000 soldiers on a march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. The purpose was to frighten Georgia's civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause. -
The 13th Amendment officially ending the institution of slavery. This ratification came eight months after the end of the war, but it represented the culmination of the struggle against slavery. -
Grant broke through Confederate defenses at Petersburg, Virginia, and Lee retreated to Richmond on April 2, 1865. Grant led the Lee near the town of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, and led to Lee's surrender of his army of northern Virginia to Grant. -
Lincoln was assassinated by a well-known actor, John Wilkes Booth, while attending the play. Shot in the head while watching the play, Lincoln died the following morning. Lincoln was the first U.S. president to be assassinated. -
Addressed many aspects of citizenship and the rights of citizens. Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S.-including former enslaved people- and grated all citizens "equal protection of the laws." -
The amendment, which was sought to protect the voting rights of African American men after the Civil War, was adopted into the Constitution in 1870. It states: "The right of citizens of the U.S. to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the U.S. or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."