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The Underground Railroad
Although it was not ground and had no tracks or cars, this escape system used railroad terminology to describe its actions. Then they moved them to destinations in the north or in the British north America (sometimes even as far as England). -
The Compromise Of 1850
The debate over ratification of the compromise raged for months. Young northern radicals, such as New York's William Seward, argued that the morality of God's "higher law" against slavery was more important than popular sovereignty or national unity. -
Bleeding Kansas
Its the term used to described the period of violence during the Kansas territory. In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraksa Act overturned the Missouri Compromise’s use of the boundary between slave and free territory and instead, using the principle decreed that the residents would determine whether the area became a free state or a slave state.
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Election of 1860
American presidential election held on Nov. 6, 1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. The electoral split between Northern and Southern Democrats was emblematic of the severe sectional split, particularly over slavery -
Fort Sumter is fired upon
The source of tension between the Union and Confederacy for several months. After South Carolina leaved on December 20, 1860, the state demanded the fort be turned over but Union officials refused. A supply ship, the “Star of the West,” tried to reach Fort Sumter on January 9, but the shore batteries opened fire and drove it away. For both sides. The Union could not allow it to fall to the Confederates, although throughout the Deep South other federal installations had been seized. -
The Battle At Bull Run
The engagement began when about 35,000 Union troops marched from the federal capital in Washington, D.C. to strike a Confederate force of 20,000 along a small river known as Bull Run.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
This was Abraham Lincoln's reported greeting to Harriet Beecher Stowe when he met her ten years after her book Uncle Tom's was published.The President may have been exaggerating a bit, few novels in American history have grabbed the public spotlight. -
Battle at Shiloh
The battle began when the Confederates launched a surprise attack on Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant in southwestern Tennessee. After successes, the Confederates were unable to hold their positions and were forced back,resulting in a Union victory. Both sides suffered heavy losses, there were more than 23,000 total casualties, and the level of violence shocked North and South alike. -
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Seven Days Battle
McClellan's army was actually larger than the force defending Richmond. The confederate General Robert E. Lee led his troops skillfully. Lee took advantage of McClellan's cautious style, The union advance stalled and McClellan retreated to Washington After the retreat, Lincoln replaced McClellan. This move proved to be a mistake. -
Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam, also called the Battle of Sharpsburg occurred September 22, 1862, at Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland.Northern Virginia against Union General George McClellan’s Army of the Potomac and was the culmination of Lee’s attempt to invade the north. -
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Reconstruction
The Union victory in the Civil War in 1865 may have given some 4 million slaves their freedom, but the process of rebuilding the South during the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) introduced a new set of significant challenges. by January 1, 1863, blacks enlisted in the Union Army in large numbers, reaching some 180,000 by war’s end. https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/reconstruction -
Battle at Vicksburg
On May 25th, Grant decided to besiege the city. With no reinforcements coming, food and supplies nearly gone, and after holding out for more than forty days, Pemberton finally surrendered on July 4th. Grant's Vicksburg campaign was one of the most brilliant of the war.In the summer of 1863, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s Army of the Tennessee converged on Vicksburg on the Mississippi River. -
South Surrenders
Several weeks later, the Confederates made a desperate attempt to break the siege. They failed recognizing that the situation was hopeless. Lee ordered a retreat from Petersburg on April 2, 1865. Richmond now defenseless was evacuated and set aflame. Lee's one hope was to join with Confederate forces in North Carolina. Setting out on the march, the men suffered from a lack of food and constant harassment by union forces. -
Lincoln's Assassination
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, murderous attack on Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., on the evening of April 14, 1865. Shot in the head by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln died the next morning.
