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William Lloyd Garrison took a stand against slavery by starting an anti-slavery newspaper called The Liberator.
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Henery Clay, a senator from Kentucky, proposed the idea that California would be a free state. Slavery would be illegal in Washington D.C. It also passes a new Fugitive slave act.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin was a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe the portrayed slavery as a cruel and brutal system. Uncle Toms' Cabin showed people how horrific slavery was, and was a factor of the civil war.
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Stephan Douglas, a senator from Illinois, proposes the Act. The act stated that popular sovereignty would decide if slavery would be allowed in Kansas and Nebraska territories . It also repealed the Missouri Compromise.
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The electoral vote gave James Buchanan the victory in the Presidential election of 1856. He was the 15th president of the U.S. and served just before the Civil War.
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Dred Scott was an African American the lived in a free territory, therefore he should be free. C.J. Rodger B. Taney said that he was property and you can't take property away. Therefore he is still a slave.
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John Brown led a small army of 18 to Harper's Ferry. There eh would try to take weapons from the U.S. His plan did deepen the divide between the North and South.
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Abraham Lincoln is elected president in 1860. He is the United States 16th president. Abraham will eventually be shot because of his stand on slavery.
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South Carolina was the 1st of 7 states to suceed from the union. They succeeded because Abraham Lincoln wont eh election. Other states that succeeded were Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi Arizona, Florida, and Georgia.
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Jefferson Davis ordered forces to attack before the union supplies arrived. Eventually the Union surrendered the fort.
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This was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. The battle lasted 3 days and nearly 50,000 men fell. It was a Union win because the North stopped the South from the invasion.
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This was the first major battle of the Civil War. Both sides assumed it would be an easy victory, but was very tough. This made people realize how hard and costly the war would be.
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It allowed all slaves in U.S. territories to be free. Abraham Lincoln signed the idea. It only freed a few number of people however.
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William T. Sherman 60,000 soldiers on march from Atlanta to Savanna, Georgia. The purpose was to frighten Georgia’s population.
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Southern general General Robert E. Lee surrendered 28,000 troops to General Ulysses S. Grant. Leading to a Northern victory.
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John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln at a play. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army.
