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  This was an antislavery newspaper. This was by William Lloyd Garrison.
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  Proposed by Henry Clay. This compromise included California as a free state, Slave trade would bi illegal in Washington D.C. It also passed a Fugitive Slave Act which would imprison or fined anyone who helped an escaped African American.
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  This was an antislavery book. It was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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  This act was proposed by Stephen A Douglas. This Act allowed the people who lived in Nebraska and Kansa to decide if they wanted to be a free state or a slave state.
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  Dred Scott got sold to a doctor who moved to the free states. Dred claimed to be free sense he was in free land. On March 6 1857 the court decided that Dred was not free.
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  John Brown gave African Americans federal arms in hope to rebel against the slave owners.
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  Lincoln was elected the 16th President. A fun Fact is Lincoln's name was not even on the ballot in the south.
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  South Carolina was the first to secede from the Union.
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  After this war the Union surrendered this fort to the Confederates.
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  This battle was know as the Battle of Manassas for the South. This was the first major battle of the Civil War.
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  The Emancipation Proclamation said there could be not savory in the rebelling states.
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  The battle ended on June 3rd. The Union won this battle.
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  This battle ended on December 21st. In this battle Sherman led 60,000 soldiers on a 285 mile walk. The purpose was to scare Georgia civilians.
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  Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrender to Union General Ulysses S. Grant.
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  Lincoln was killed when he was watching a play at Ford's Theater.