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A book that convinced people that slavery was bad and it was inspired by the fugitive slave act.
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anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the upper midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party
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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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Dred scott sued his master's widow for his freedom on the grounds that he lived as a resident of a free state and territory. He won in a smaller court then the supreme court reversed it.
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was an effort by John Brown an abolitionist to initiate an armed slave revolt by taking over a U.S. arsenal at harper's ferry
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In Charles Town, Virginia, militant abolitionist John Brown is executed on charges of treason, murder, and insurrection
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Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States
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The first slave state to secede from the union
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The fort had been the source of tension between the Union and the Confederacy and the confederates fired on the fort
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in the Confederate Capital City of Montgomery, Alabama, the decision was made to name the City of Richmond, Virginia as the new Capital of the Confederacy.
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When the privilege of the writ is suspended, the prisoner is denied the right to secure such a writ and therefore can be held without trial indefinitely.
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First major land battle of the civil war
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Jefferson Davis was elected to run the confederacy
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First battle with ships in the civil war
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a battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, the seventh-costliest land battle of the American Civil War
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Commanded the army of Northern Virginia for the confederates
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Richmond's defensive line of batteries and fortifications set up under General Robert E. Lee, a daring ride around the Union Army
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The bloodiest war in American history where the Union faced off against the Confederates and no one won
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Fought in Frederick Virginia where Robert E Lee faced Ambrose Burnside
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Abe Lincoln passed this law saying all slaves shall be free
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resulted in a Confederate victory that stopped an attempted flanking movement by Maj. Gen. Joseph
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The Confederacy is torn in two when General John C. Pemberton surrenders to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Vicksburg
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The most important battle of the Civil war. The union won
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violent disturbances in Lower Manhattan, widely regarded as the culmination of working-class discontent with new laws passed by Congress that year to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War.
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Famous speech by Abe Lincoln, A cemetery for union soldiers
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Union forces commanded by William Tecumseh Sherman overwhelmed and defeated Confederate forces defending the city under John Bell Hood
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Abe Lincoln Wins his 2nd term
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was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia
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the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
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The Freedmen's Bureau provided food, housing and medical aid, established schools and offered legal assistance
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Lincoln tried to restore peace in the nation after the civil war
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one of the last battles of the American Civil War. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, setting the stage for the end of the four-year civil war.
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Abe Lincoln was assassinated at a theater in Washington dc by John Wilkes booth
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Union soldiers tracked him down to Virginia and killed him
