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The Compromise of 1850 admitted California as a free state, and reinforced the Fugitive Slave Law.
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The Dred Scott trial was a long sequence of court cases that determined that slaves were property.
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John Brown led a small group in a raid at Harper's Ferry as a way of rebelling against slavery.
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Fort Sumter was the very first battle of the Civil War.
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The Battle of Bull Run was a battle of the Civil War that took place in Virginia, and the Confederates won.
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The Battle of Antietam (also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg) slowed down the Confederates advance on Maryland to get more military supplies.
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The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order by Abraham Lincoln that stated that all salves in the south whose state was in rebellion were to be freed.
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The Siege of Vicksburg was the final major military action in Vicksburg, the North was victorious.
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The Battle of Gettysburg was perceived as the turning point of the Civil War and the most important battle of the Civil War, as the North was victorious.
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General Ulysses S. Grant and his Union army defeated the Confederates in the Battle of Missionary Ridge.
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The surrender at the Appomattox Courthouse was General Robert E. Lee officially surrendering to Ulysses S. Grant, ending the war, making the North victorious.
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Abraham Lincoln, the president who led the nation through the Civil War, was assassinated while attending a play in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth.
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The 13th Amendment was the amendment that abolished slavery.
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The Reconstruction Act of 1867 was the process of admitting the southern states (who left the union prior) back to the Union.
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In February of 1868 the House of Representatives voted 126 to 47 in favor of impeaching Andrew Johnson for his crimes and misdemeanors.
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The election of 1876 was one of the most controversial elections in U.S. history between Samuel J. Tilden Rutherford B. Hayes. Rutherford B. Hayes ended up winning.
