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uncle Toms Cabin
book by Harriet Beecher Stove
Portatrayed the evils of slavery -
Dred Scot case
A slave named dred scot sued for freedom after being taken into free territory by his owner. -
Election of 1860
Main issues: slavery
abraham Lincoln , a Republicans won -
Battle of fort sumter
Fort sumter was in south Carolina but it remained under union (northern) contol.
Confederate fired on union ships that were there to resupply Fort Sumter
was the first battle -
Battle of antietam
Lee went north and lost at Antietam ,MD. Main effects , Lincoln issused the emanicpation Proclamation. -
Emanicpation Proclamation
Freed slaves in the 'rebelling'' states -
Battle of Vicksburg
Mississippi and Grant win. This cut confedracy in half -
Battle of Gettysburg
Lee pushed North into Pennysylvania
3 day battle
Lee had to retreat -
Gettysburg Address
Short speech by Lincoln and dedicating Cemetery -
13th Amendment
Abolished Slavery -
Appomattox Court house
Lee urged southerns to accept surrender and unite as america
Lee surrender -
Lincoln Assaination
shortly after the war and killed by john Wilkes Booth -
Reconstruction
Restoring southern states to the union and determining the position of African Americans. -
Reconstruction of 1867
Put south under Military Occupation -
14th Amendment
prohibted states from denying equal rights to any american -
15th Amendments
voting rights for African Americans -
Election of 1867
Republican- Rutherford B. Hayes
Democract-Samuel J Tidlen
Disputes election Results -
Jim Crow Laws
Established seperate facalities for white and black
school, train cars, etc.
Black facilities were inferior -
Plessy vs Ferguson 1896
S.C. said Seperate but equal did not violate the 14th Amendment
upheld jim Crows laws of Segeration
