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The Liberator was an abolitionist newspaper that called for an immediate end to slavery.
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It admitted California as a free state, created Utah and New Mexico territories, set a Texas-New Mexico boundary, and ended the slave trade in Washington D.C.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin was a book that showed the truth about slavery. It was very controversial and was banned in the south.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act let residents decide whether or not to have slavery in their area.
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James Buchanan was part of the Democratic party.
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After 11 years, it was decided that Dred Scott was just "property" and no one, not even the Constitution could end slavery.
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He and a group tried to take over a federal arsenal, but federal troops came and stopped them.
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Abe being President of the U.S. caused many southern states to recede from the Union.
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South Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia all seceded the Union by February of 1861.
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The confederates attacked first, causing the Union to surrender, despite heavy bombardment. No one died.
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Known as Battle of First Manassas to the South, first major battle of the Civil War.
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Declared that all slaves are free.
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Won by the Union, 2 days long, bloodiest battle, and it was a turning point in the war.
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The purpose was to scare Georgia’s civilian population to abandon the Confederate cause.
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Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in the front of Appomattox Court House in Virginia, ending the Civil War.
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John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate supporter, shot Abraham Lincoln at a play in Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. Lincoln was shot five days after the end of the Civil War.
