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The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was created to announce and explain the separation of Great Britain. -
Philadelphia Constitutional Convention of 1787
The constitutional convention had met between May and September of 1787 to tell the problems of the weak central government that existed in the Articles of Confederation. -
Missouri Compromise
The purpose of the Missouri Compromise was to keep track of the number of slave states and the number of free states in the Union. -
The Liberator
The Liberator was an American abolitionist newspaper that was found by William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp. It was also the most influence antislavery periodical in the Pre-Civil War. -
Mexican-American War
The Mexican-American War was a conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States. -
Compromise of 1850
The compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress. -
Fugitive Slave Law
The Fugitive Slave Law was passed by the United States Congress as part of the Compromise of 1850. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska act created territories of Kansas and Nebraska and which was drafted by democratic senator Stephen A. Douglas. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent of civil confrontation in the united states. -
Dred Scott Harper's Ferry
The Dred Scott case was the landmark decision made by the United States Supreme Court. -
Illinois Sentorial Campaign
Illinois senatorial campaign had a series of seven debates between Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln and senator Stephen Douglas. -
The House Divided Speech
The House Divided Speech was an address given by Abraham Lincoln, later President of the United States, on June 16, 1858, at what was then the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, after he had accepted the Illinois Republican Party's nomination as that state's US senator. -
South Carolina Secedes
The Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union was a proclamation issued on December 24, 1860, by the government of South Carolina to explain its reasons for seceding from the United States -
Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address was delivered March 4, 1861, this part of him taking oath of office for his first term as the sixteen president of the United States. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War. -
The First Battle of Bull Run
The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as the First Battle of Manassas, was fought on July 21, 1861 in Prince William County, Virginia, just north of the city of Manassas and about 25 miles west-southwest of Washington, D.C. It was the first major battle of the American Civil War. -
Battle of Fort Donelson
The Battle of Fort Donelson was fought from February 12–16, 1862, in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. The Union capture of the Confederate fort near the Tennessee–Kentucky border opened the Cumberland River, an important avenue for the invasion of the South. The Union's success also elevated Brig. -
Montior vs. Merrimack
The Battle of Hampton Roads, often referred to as either the Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack or the Battle of Ironclads, was the most noted and arguably most important naval battle of the American Civil War from the standpoint of the development of navies. -
Battle of Shlioh
The Battle of Shiloh was a battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee. -
Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam, also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the Southern United States, was a battle of the American Civil War, fought on September 17, 1862, between Confederate. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free". -
Battle of Vicksburg
The Siege of Vicksburg was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. -
Battle of Gettysburg
After a great victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville, General Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania in late June 1863. On July 1, the advancing Confederates clashed with the Union's Army of the Potomac, commanded by General George G. Meade, at the crossroads town of Gettysburg. -
Battle of Fort Wagner
The Second Battle of Fort Wagner, also known as the Second Assault on Morris Island or the Battle of Fort Wagner, Morris Island, was fought on July 18, 1863, during the American Civil War. Union Army troops commanded by Brig. -
The Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address is a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. -
Battle of Shenandoah
The Valley Campaigns of 1864 were American Civil War operations and battles that took place in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia from May to October 1864. While some military historians divide this period into three separate campaigns, they interacted in several ways, so this article considers all three together. -
Sherman's March to the Sea
Sherman's March to the Sea was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 until December 21, 1864, by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army. -
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Lincoln delivered the second Inaugural address on March 4, 1865 while his second inauguration as president of the United States. -
Battle of Appomattox
The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War. -
13th Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. In Congress, it was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, and by the House on January 31, 1865. The amendment was ratified by the required number of states on December 6, 1865. -
14th Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. -
15th Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". It was ratified on February 3, 1870, as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments.