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South wanted slaves, north did not like that idea.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
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It was the most serious secession movement in the United States and was defeated when the Union armies defeated the Confederate armies in the Civil War, 1861-65
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the government formed in 1861 by southern states that proclaimed their secession from the United States. Jefferson Davis was its president.
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Confederate forces opened fire on Fort Sumter, the nearly completed federal garrison positioned on a man-made island in South Carolina's Charleston harbor
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A short war in which President Lincoln tried to cut off southern ports, but failed to do so.
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Farmers would provide food for soldiers during the war.
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Women would be nurses or disguise themselves as men and fight in the war(s)
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A battle that the confederates started but the Union won
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The second bull run battle, this time the confederates one.
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The bloodiest one day battle in U.S. history
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African Americans would be soldiers in the army on the north side, because they offered freedom on the north side if they fought in the war
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The union start to pick up confidence after winning here at Gettysburg
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President Lincoln announced that we would declare a declaration freeing all the slaves.
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Grant is assigned commander of all union armies
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President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
