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General Winfield Scott
General Winfield Scott fought in the War of 1812 and also the Mexican War.
After these wars he was nominated for the presidency on the Whig ticket. His anti-slavery beliefs hurt his support in the South while the party's pro-slavery plank damaged support in the North. Scott was badly defeated, had he only won four states. Returning to his military role, he was given a special brevet to lieutenant general by Congress, becoming the first since George Washing to hold this rank in the military. -
Kansas- Nebraska Act
This Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854.
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not they wish to allow slavery within their borders.
Once the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed many anti-slavery and pro-slavery group went into the states to try and persuade the elctions of whether ot have slavery within these states or not. -
15th Presidential Election
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Dred Scott Case
The United States Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, declared that all blacks, slaves or free, were not and could never become citizens of the United States. The court also declared the 1820 Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, thus permiting slavery in all of the country's territories. -
Kansas Is A Free State
On January 29, 1861, just before the start of the Civil War, Kansas was admitted to the Union as a free state. -
16th Presidential Election
Abraham Lincoln was elected to be the 16th President of the United States.
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The Civil War
Fight between the Union and the Confederates. The war was over slavery. The Northern states were against slavery while the Southern states were for slavery. -
Fort Donelson
Brig. General Ulysses S. Grant took Fort Donelson in Stewart County, Tennessee. This was the first Union victory of strategic importance.
The 12,000 men in Fort Donelson surrenered the fort to the Union. This was a major victory for the Union because they were able to keep Kentucky part of the Union and opened up Tennessee for a Northern advance.
Casualties: 17,398
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Battle of Gettysburg
Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee concentrated his army around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, upon the approach of Union Gen. George G. Meade’s forces. On July 1, Confederates drove Union defenders through Gettysburg to Cemetery Hill. Southerners gained ground but failed to dislodge the Union host. On July 3rd, fighting broke out at Culp’s Hill with the Union regaining its lost ground. Lee's second invasion of the North had failed.
Casualties: 51,000
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General Ulysses S. Grant
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Battle at Appomattox Court House
The battle where the Confederates surrenederd. Robert E. Lee planned to break through the Union, but later realized that the Union had many more soldiers than he thought which forced him to surrender. His surrender made it sothe Union had victory for the Battle at Appomattox Court House and the entire Civil War.
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Reconstruction
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Assassination of Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. The attack came only 5 days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War. -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 granted citizenship and the same rights enjoyed by white citizens to all male persons in the United States "without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude." -
Tennessee Once Again Becomes Part of the Union
Tennessee was the first state to be readmitted into the Union because the state decided to revoke slavery and free all the slaves in Tennessee. -
General John M. Schofield
After the war, Schofield went on to become the Secretary of War under President Johnson. He helped with the recommendation of making a naval base a Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (now known as Schofield Barracks), and eventually was promoted to lieutenant general -
Presidential Election
Ulysses S. Grant was elected to be the 17th president.
Within his term he had a positive influence in America.
He gave the African Americans the right to vote, signed the Naturalization Act of 1870, this allowed African Americans to become American citizens, and also signed the Civil Rights Act of 1875, this allowed African Americans to attened public affairs.
