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Allowed slaves to be captured and brought back to their owners as long as they were in United States territory.
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Anti-slavery novel that gave the abolitionists a huge motivation to end slavery.
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Allowed the states of Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether or not they would be slave states. Repealed the Missouri Compromise.
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Court ruling that states that, whether slave or free, black people cannot become American citizens.
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A pro-abolition rebellion in Harper's Ferry, Virginia involving Brown and 18 other men, planning to give slaves firearms. Sparked controversy among the Northern and Southern states.
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Abraham Lincoln won the election for the United States presidency.
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First battle in the mrican Civil War. It also started the war.
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First battle on an actual battlefield in the American Civil War. The most greusome battle in American history at the time.
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Battle between nothern and southern battleships. The most important naval battle in the Civil War.
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Bloodiest single-day battle in American history. Motivated Lincoln to give the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Claimed that slaves that were still rebelling against the Union "shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free." Raised the Unions motivation towards human freedoms.
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Divided the Confederate States and put them into a defensive position.
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The most gruesome battle in all of the Civil War. Ended invasions of the Northern states by the Confederate forces.
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Union ship, USS Housitonic was sunk by Confederate submarine, Hunley. Huge victory for the Confederate States in terms of naval warfare.
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William Sherman had 60,000 union soldiers accompany him on a march from Atlanta, Georgia to Savannah, Georgia in an attempt to indimidate the civilians to not support the Confederacy any longer.
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Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union at the Appomattox Courthouse. Ended the Civil War.
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President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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Largest surrender of the Confederate States.
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Banned slavery except as punishment for a crime.
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Ater being vetoed against twice by President Andrew Johnson, the Civil Rights Act becomes law. Gave all males in the United States the right to citizenship.
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United States President, Andrew Johnson, was impeached. First impeachment of a United States President.
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Gave those who were once slaves the right to citizenship in the United States.
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Rutherford Hayes won the election for the United States presidency.. One of the most controversial elections in United States History.
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Compromise that made South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana democratic states once again.
