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Said that no states can be made slave states above the bottom of missouri
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Made it so that California was able to enter the union as a free state. The rest of the mexican cession was divided into two territories-utah and new mexico- where the question of whether to allow slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty
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Act made it a crime to help a runaway slave and allowed officails to arrest those slaves in free areas
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Anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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an act that would divide the remainder of the louisiana purchase into two territories- kansas and nebraska- and allow people in each territory to decide on the question of slavery using popular sovereignty
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Case where a black man by the name of dred scott sued for his freedom and eventually loss in the supreme court
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began when John brown and his men took over the arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in hopes of starting a slave rebellion
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SC secedes after lincoln is named president which shows that the south no longer has and national power.
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final event that led to most of the slave states to seceding and starting the civil war
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The spark that started the civil war, fort sumter was a federal outpost in charleston, SC, that was attacked by confederate troops.
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First major battle of the civil war, and the confederate's victory. the battle is also know as the first battle of Manassas. this battle shattered the North's hope of winning the war quickly
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bloodiest single day of the civil war
union won -
AKA the battle of sharpsburg, was the bloodiest single-day battle of the civil war, and of US history
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a military order that freed slaves in areas only controlled by the CSA
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General grant's troops began a siege on vicksburg, eventually gaining control of the city
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key battle that finally turned the tide against the confederates
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Sherman's path of victory that gave Atlanta, GA, Savannah, Ga, Wilmington, NC, and Raleigh, NC to the Union.
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lee surrendered to grant to end the civil war
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Process of readmitting the former Confederate States to the Union
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President Lincoln and his wife attended a play at Ford's Theater in D.C., during the play, John Wilkes Booth, a southerner who opposed Abe's policies, sneaked into the theater box and shot him.
