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The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses. Harriet Tubman helped 300 people in 19 trips. -
The Kansas Nebraska Act canceled the Missouri Compromise. It created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty. -
It John Brown and a group of his supporters left to go take over Harpers Ferry. -
This election showed division between the U.S. and it pushed the nation into war. -
The Southern states seceded and fought against the United States of America during the American Civil War. -
Fort Sumter was attacked on April 12 and it lasted 34-hours. Anderson and his 86 soldiers surrendered the fort on April 13. -
On April 12, 1861, Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Harbor. Less than 34 hours later, Union forces surrendered. This started the Civil War. -
The first was the first full-scale battle of the Civil War. It showed that it would be a long war. -
On November 6, 1861, Jefferson Davis, was elected president of the Confederacy on February 9, 1861. -
The proclamation was made by Abraham Lincoln and said "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
The Gettysburg Battle was fought around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It was won by the Union and General George Meade. -
Sherman’s March to the Sea was a Union victory. After capturing Atlanta, Sherman's army marched 285 miles to the town of Savannah. -
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. -
It was fought on April 9, 1865, near the town of Appomattox Court House, and led to Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender of his Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. -
Abraham Lincoln served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. -
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. -
The 15th amendment granted African American men the right to vote.