Road to the Civil War

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  • The Missouri Compromise

    The Missouri Compromise
    The Missouri Compromise The Compromise was an agreement that was passed by anti slavery and pro slavery. Which put a regulation on slavery in the Western territories.
  • Texas Annexation

    Texas Annexation
    Texas Annexation in 1845 the US annexed the republic of Texas. The US also inherited Texa's border dispute with Mexico.
  • Wilmot Proviso

    Wilmot Proviso
    Wilmot Proviso Wilmot Proviso was one of the leading events in the American Civil War. This event also disputed lands in the South of Texas and in New Mexico which was East of the Rio Grande.
  • Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidago

    Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidago
    Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidago This treaty was originally the treaty of peace, friendship, limits and settlement which happen to be between the USA and the Mexican Republic.
  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compromise_of_1850 The Compromise of 1850 was a package of bills that were passed in 1850. Which delayed a four year confrontation between the slave states and the free states of the South.
  • The Gadsen Purchase

    The Gadsen Purchase
    The Gadsen Purchase The Gadsen Purchase was a region of the present day in the south of Arizona and the southwest of New Mexico that was purchased in the US.
  • Republican Party Founded

    Republican Party Founded
    Republican Party founded In 1854, a man named Alvan E. Bovay, called a anti-slavery meeting at the church in Ripon. This meeting announced that the legislation repealed the Missouri Compromise which had banned slavery in that region.
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act
    Kansas-Nebraska Act The Kansas-Nebraska Act created territories that had openings for new land settlements that had a repealing effect on the Missouri Compromise.
  • brooks-sumner incident

    brooks-sumner incident
    brooks-sumner incident The brooks-sumner incident involved Preston Brooks. He was remebered for being severely beating a man whom name was Senator Charles Sumner who was an abolitionist.
  • Harper's Ferry Raid

    Harper's Ferry Raid
    Harper's Ferry Raid Harper's Ferry Raid was led by John Brown. John Brown's raid was sadly defected by a US Marines which was led by Robert E. Lee
  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860
    Election of 1860 The election caused by slavery split large potestant sects into the north and the south which dissolved the whig party.
  • Firing on fort sumter

    Firing on fort sumter
    Fort Sumter
    In the firing on fort sumnter they command of the confederate forces which was located around the Charleston Harbor opened fire on the Union holding Fort Sumter.
  • The first battle of bull run

    The first battle of bull run
    First Battle of Bull Run The first battle of bull run was also known as the "First Manassas." This battle was fought in a part of VA called in Prince William County, which was near the city of Manassas. Which happen to be the first major land that had a battle in the Civil War.
  • monitor v merrimac

    monitor v merrimac
    Monitor v Merrimack On March 8 the Confederate ironclad of Virginia which steamed into the Hampton Roads areas where it sank and ran the congress aground.
  • Battle of Antietam

    Battle of Antietam
    Antietam campaign The Battle of Antietam was also known as "The Battle of Sharpsburg." Which mainly took place in the South ; near Maryland and Antietam Creek.
  • Battle of Gettysburg

    Battle of Gettysburg
    The Battles
    the battle of gettysburg was fought on the dates July 1–3, 1863. in the town of Gettysburg.
  • shermans march

    shermans march
    Shermans march
    The Sherman's March was a historical march to the sea. The name came from the Savannah Campaign. This march began when Sherman's troops left the captured city of Alanta Georgia.
  • Appomattox court house

     Appomattox court house
    Battle of Appomattox Courthouse The Appomattox court house battle was fought on April 9, 1865. Which happen to be the final engagement of the confederal states army.