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Abraham Lincoln becomes President -
The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state -
it was an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe -
Republicans used Bleeding Kansas to gain support among northerners by arguing that the Democrats clearly sided with the pro-slavery forces perpetrating this violence. -
representative Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery Democrat from South Carolina, used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner, -
having lived in a free state and territory did not entitle an enslaved so the was decision argued that, as someone's property, Scott was not a citizen and could not sue in a federal court. -
having the opportunity to reject the constitution altogether in a referendum, overwhelmingly rejected the Lecompton Constitution by a vote of 10,226 to 138. -
the raid was to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, -
The Pony Express was an American express mail service that used relays of horse-mounted riders. -
it was an unsuccessful proposal to permanently enshrine slavery in the United States Constitution, -
he first state to secede from the federal Union -
Kansas is admitted to the Union as free state. It was the 34th state to join the Union. -
representatives from the six seceded states met to formally establish a unified government, -
At a convention in Montgomery, Alabama, the seven seceding states created the Confederate Constitution -
The Morrill Tariff was an increased import tariff -
It ended with the surrender by the United States Army, beginning the American Civil War -
Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus between Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia to give military authorities the necessary power to silence dissenters and rebels. -
it was the first major battle of the American Civil War -
Union officers often were unable to rally their men until they had reached the safety of Washington so President Abraham Lincoln removed McDowell from command of the Army -
t was the first combat test in the American Civil War for Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant -
a two-day conflict was at that point the bloodiest battle in American history -
Act accelerated the settlement of the western territory by granting adult heads of families 160 acres -
Jackson defeated Banks and pursued him until the Union Army crossed the Potomac River into Maryland -
two-day battle in the Peninsular Campaign, in which Confederate attacks were repulsed, fought 6 miles -
offered government incentives to men of talent who are willing to invest in developing the nation's first transcontinental rail line. -
The Morrill Land-Grant Acts are United States statutes that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges -
Major-General Henry Halleck was named general-in-chief of the Union army. -
his campaign was to aid McClellan's Peninsula Campaign by drawing troops away from Richmond or at least preventing Jackson from reinforcing General Robert E. Lee and his troops, -
showed that the Union could stand against the Confederate army in the Eastern theater. -
It featured the first opposed river crossing in American military history as well as the Civil War's first instance of urban combat. -
The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free. -
Federal combined operation against a Confederate position on the Arkansas river that succeeded but at too high a cost -
The act allowed the creation of national banks, set out a plan for establishing a national currency -
conscription law authorizing a national draft. -
it resulted in a Confederate victory that stopped an attempted flanking movement by Maj. Gen. Joseph -
the battle was between Union and Confederate forces during the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War -
Robert E. Lee's plan to invade the North and force an immediate end to the war failed -
The Vicksburg campaign was a series of maneuvers and battles in the Western Theater -
the anger of working-class New Yorkers over a new federal draft law during the Civil War -
Chickamauga was the largest Confederate victory in the Western theater -
officers spent a great deal of time at camps such as the one in this photograph, taken of officers of the 1st Brigade, Horse Artillery -
the second major engagement in Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign, -
Lee had prevented Grant from breaking through the Confederate lines to capture Richmond, less than 10 miles away -
the Bank Act established the Office of Comptroller of the Currency, and permitted banks to obtain federal charters and issue national bank -
Petersburg campaign was a series of battles around Petersburg, Virginia, -
The Wade-Davis Bill required that 50% of all voters in the Confederate states, as opposed to Lincoln's proposed 10%, -
Nevada became the 36th state on October 31, 1864, after telegraphing the Constitution of Nevada to the Congress -
Lincoln's victory made him the first president to win re-election since Andrew Jackson -
marked a turning point in the relationship between American Indian tribes and the Federal Government -
The purpose of Sherman's March to the Sea was to frighten Georgia's civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause. -
admiral David D. Porter's squadron of warships had subjected Fort Fisher to a terrific bombardment -
union General Sherman moved from Georgia through South Carolina, destroying almost everything in his path. -
An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees -
Robert E. Lee surrendered the last major Confederate arm -
Andrew Johnson became President of the United States upon the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln -
the fire which raged along the waterfront but fortunately had stopped short of Thomas Jefferson's capitol -
declared all persons born in the United States to be citizens, without distinction of race or color -
served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination -
Cornell University's endowment is founded dually on Ezra Cornell's own funds and on Indigenous peoples' dispossession -
The Civil War officially ended on May 13, 1865, and the Confederate States of America ceased to exist -
it abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. -
declared all persons born in the United States to be citizens, without distinction of race or color -
Purported to be evidence of humans in North America during the Pliocene epoch, it turns out to be a hoax. -
Former member of the United States Senate -
attack by members of the white majority on Black residents of Memphis, Tennessee -
Congress authorized the creation of a new American coin: the five-cent piece composed of copper -
a bank and train robber in the American Old Wes -
This war was fought between Prussia and Austria, Hanover, Bavaria and Saxony -
reduces the number of United States circuit courts to nine and the number of Supreme Court justices to seven. -
Police kill more than 40 black and white Republicans and wound more than 150. -
is an American white supremacist terrorist and hate group -
West Virginia University is established in Morgantown, West Virginia -
it stated that a President could not dismiss appointed officials without the consent of Congress. -
is the second oldest public university in the state -
a outlined the conditions under which the Southern states would be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War -
United States reached an agreement to purchase Alaska from Russia for a price of $7.2 million. -
president Andrew Johnson reluctantly signed the proclamation declaring Nebraska's statehood. -
The Patrons of Husbandry, or the Grange, was founded in 1867 to advance methods of agriculture, as well as to promote the social and economic needs of farmers in the United States. -
A Sioux and Cheyenne war party kills U.S. Second Lieutenant Lyman Kidder, along with an Indian scout and ten enlisted men in Kansas. -
Medicine Lodge Treaty -
49 people are killed in a train crash in Angola, New York