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Senator Henry Clay came up with multiple resolutions with the goal of seeking a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South.
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A party known as the Republican party originated out of something called the Free Soil Party which all occurred under Abraham Lincoln's presidency
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
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The Dred Scott case was a supreme court decision which intensified the already existing national division over slavery.
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The Lincoln vs Douglas Debates were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate.
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The raid on Harper's Ferry was an effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate a slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
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Abraham Lincoln wins presidency over Stephen A. Douglas and John C. Breckinridge despite Lincoln's name not even appearing on most ballads in the south.
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South Carolina became the first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the United States.
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The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederacy and the return gunfire and surrender by the United States Army that started the Civil War.
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The Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of First 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 resulted in a win for the confederacy.
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The Battle of Antietam was the single most deadly battle in all of the Civil War it was a part of the North's anaconda plan and was fought in the south
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The Emancipation Proclamation, or Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln
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The Battle of Fredricksburg took place near the Rappahannock River. This ultimately resulted in another victory for the confederate army.
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Leader of the Confederate army Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox Courthouse ending the Civil War.
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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C.
