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Missouri Compromise
Missouri Comp.Missouri would be admitted to the union as a slave state, but would be balanced by the admission of MAINE, a free state, that had long wanted to be separated from Massachusetts. 2nd, slavery was to be excluded from all new states in the Louisiana Purchase north of the southern boundary of Missouri. Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed this act -
"54-40 of Fight"
"54-40 or Fight" - no date
The Oregon Country was governed equally by Great Britain and the United States. James Polk supported US expansionism, became president and settled the boundary dispute. Polk called for expansion that included Texas, California, and the entire Oregon territory. The northern boundary of Oregon was the latitude line of 54 degrees, 40 minutes. "FIFTY-FOUR FORTY OR FIGHT!" was the popular slogan that led Polk to victory aga -
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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidago
Guadalupe-Hidago
This treaty ended the Mexican-American war in the favor of the US. The war really started two year before in 1846, over a territorial dispute involving Texas. The treaty had added on an extra 525,000 mi. to the US territory including the land that made AZ, CA, UT, NV, CO, WY and NM. -
Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1850
Divisions over slavery in territory gained in the Mexican-American (1846-48). War were resolved in the Compromise of 1850. It consisted of laws admitting California as a free state, Utah and New Mexico territories with slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty, settling a Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute in the former's favor, ending the slave trade in Washington, DC also strict Fugitive Slave Laws. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852, this novel was written in act of the Fugitive Slave Law -
Gadsden Purchase
Gadsden Purchase
The Gadsden Purchase of 1853 was the last territory acquired by the United States within the boundaries of the lower 48 states -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas-Nebraska
"Popular sovereignty" - This act allowed the settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would bepermitted within a new state's border. -
Republican Party founded
Republican Party
In Ripon, Wisconsin, former members of the Whig Party met to establish a new party to go against the spread of slavery into the western territories. By February 1854, anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the upper midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party. In one meeting, in Wisconsin on March 20, 1854, is remembered as the founding meeting of the Republican Party. -
Brooks-Sumner incident
Brooke-Sumner incident
Senator Charles Sumner gave a speech called "The Crime Against Kansas" on abolishing slavery in the US. Sumner mentioned Andrew Butler b/c of his involvement of Kansas-Nebraska Act, His nephew Preston Brooks took things in his hands and attacked him severally with a cane. -
Harpers Ferry Raid
Harper's Ferry Raid
Attempt by white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt by seizing a United States Arsenal at Harpers Ferry in Virginia in 1859. He sucessfully captured the arsenal but no slave rebellion -
Election of 1860
Election of 1860 Presidential Election of 1860, the four candidates were Abraham Lincoln, John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen A. Douglas. Abraham Lincoln was elected from the state of Illinois and was a Republican, John Breckinridge represented the southern states and was nominated by the Democratic Party, John Bell represented the Constitutional Union, and Stephen Douglas candidate for the Democrats. -
firing of Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter
An island located in Charleston Harbor, SC, Its famous for being the site of the first shots of theCivil War (1861-65) -
First Battle of Bull Run
Battle of bull run
Union and Confederate armies had clashed near Manassas Junction, VA in the first major land of the Civil War. It began when nearly 35,00 Union troops marced from the capital in DC to strike a confederate force of 20,000 along a small river known as Bull Run. Confederate Victory gave the South hope & shocked the North -
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Antietam
On this early morning of 1862, Confederate and Union soldiers in the Civil War clashed near Maryland's Antietam Creek in the bloodiest 1day battle in American's History. Battle of Antietam marked the culmination of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's first invasion of the Northern state -
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Gettysburg
This battle lasted 3 days, It was considered the most important engagement in American Civil War. After a great victory, General Lee march his Army of Norther VA into PA in late June of 1863. On the 1st day the confederates clashed with Union Army of the Potomac at the crossroads of Gettysburg. On the 2nd day there were heavier fighting and on the the 3rd day he failed and had to surrender. -
Sherman's March
Sherman's March
During the days between Nov, 15 till Dec, 21of 1864 Union General Sherman led about 60,000 soldiers on a 285- mile march from Alanta to Savannah GA. The purpose was to frighten Georgia's Civilian population into leaving the Confederate. The soldiers did not destroy anything just took livestock & food and burned houses and barns of those who tried to fight back -
Appomattox Court House
Appomattox Court House
Confederate General Lee surrendered his 28,000 troops to Union General Grant in the front palor of Wilmer Mclean's home in Appomattox Court House, VA which ended the Civil War (1822-85) -
Monitor v. Merrimac
Monitor v. Merrimac
The battle between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (more commonly called the Merrimac) took place on the James River at the Battle of Hampton Roads. It was arguably a turning point for naval warfare, ending the era of wooden military vessels.
