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Series of resolutions introduced in order to promote a compromise. It proposed a new and more effective fugitive slave law and that California be admitted as a free state
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Was an underground escape route or a network or "safe places" for fugitive slaves to stay and hide after escaping.
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Was a law that allowed for the capture of runaway slaves within the United States and to return them
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An act that left the states of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for slavery by popular sovereignty. Many conflicts broke out between the states because of this act.
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Dred Scott was a slave in a free state who went to court due to this. The U.S. Supreme Court ended up deciding that being a slave on free territory does not mean that he is free. This decision ended up being a huge slap in the face to abolitionists.
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John Brown led a small group on a raid against an armory in Harper's Ferry in order to try to set off an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery.
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Was a Republican that opposed slavery expansion and felt that slavery was morally wrong
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The North's 3-Part Plan to bring the southern states back to the Union
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Confederates fire the first shots at the Union to start the Civil War
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Confederate victory and Confederates seem too tough to be beat
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Turning point in the Civil War. Lee's army is defeated and the Union gets confidence back.
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Was created in order to officially abolish slavery.
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Major Union victory. Lee surrenders and the confederates lose the war.
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John Wilkes Booth shoots and kills President Abraham Lincoln
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Andrew Johnson was inaugurated after the assassination of President Lincoln. His
