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Wilmot Proviso
This bill would have banned slavery in any territory aquired from Mexico, this bill was passed in the house, but the senate adjourned it without voting. -
Compromise of 1850
California requested to be as part of the union as a free state and to avert crisis from the North and South the Compromise of 1850 was made. California was later entered into the union as a free state. -
Bleeding Kansas
Mot abolitionists srongly opposed this bill, saved the union from the terrible tear that many feared. Popular sovereignty said that the inhabitants of each territory or state should decide whether it would be a free or slave state. -
The Election of 1860
Abraham Lincon won the election without a single southern vote. Lincon ran the election based off slavery and was against slavery but ot an abolitionist, he just seeeked a compromise. -
Fort Sumpter
This battle atarted the Civil War, Major Robert Anderson moved his small army from Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island to Fort Sumter, a fortress controlling the entrance of the Charleston Harbor. Anderson was short of men, food, and supplies -
Antietam
Was the firt major battle in the Civil War also the first and victorious win for the Union, the bloodiest single-day battle in history, After pushing Confederate General Robert E. Lee into Maryland, Union Army General George B. McClellan launched powerfull attacks against Lee's army, in defense positions behind Antietam Creek -
Emancipation Proclimation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation stated "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." The Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery in the nation. -
The Battle of Vicksburg
Was the final military action in the Vicksburg campaign Grant decided to hold the city and after holding out for more than forty days, the confederates finally surrendered on July 4. -
The Battle of Ghettysburg
Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee concentrated his army around Gettysburg, Confederates drove Union defenders through Gettysburg to Cemetery Hill,after a massive artillery bombardment, Lee attacked the Union center on Cemetery Ridge, Lee's second attemd to defeat the North had failed -
Appomatox Court House
Lee went west, eventually arriving in Appomattox. Heading for the South Railroad at Appomattox Station, where supplies waited, the Confederates were cut off and nearly surrounded by the Union troops near the village of Appomattox Court House. -
Andrew Jhonson Election
Abraham Lincoln appointed Johnson to be the military governor of Tennessee. He was guarded there since many in the state though of him as a traitor. His ties to the president would later enable him to secure an exemption for his state from the provisions of the Emancipation Proclamation. -
14th Ammendment
This bill prohibits state and local governments from depriving persons of life, liberty, or property without certain steps being taken to ensure fairness. This clause has been used to make most of the Bill of Rights applicable to the states
