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Lincoln's path to the presidency
Abraham Lincoln was in a one room cabin near Louisville, Kentucky. He had a lifelong effect on his feelings on slavery. -
A frontier upbringing
He was a white southerner and they held no slaves. opposition of slavery was one of the reasons the lincoln family moved from Kentucky to the indiana territory -
Lincoln's early political career
Lincoln began the first of four terms in the illinois general assembly while he studied the law at home. -
The Compromise of 1850
The senator introduced a compromise plan that would preserve the balance of power. -
The Kansas - Nebraska act
The Kansas Nebraska act became a law which organized Kansas and Nebraska territories. It also used popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery -
The Election of 1856
The events in Kansas dominated the election of 1856. The democrats won the election by characterizing the republicans as extremists on the slavery issue. -
Dred Scott decision
Scott V sanford a slave sued for freedom arguing living of free soil made him free -
Marais des Cygnes Massacre
A pro slavery gang guns down 11 unarmed antislavery settlers -
John Browns raid
Brown was executed and northerners saw him as a hero. -
beginning of civil war
The first shot of the civil war was shot where confederate artillery opened fire on Fort Sumter. -
Blockade runners
The union ironclad monitored confronted the Virginia in the worlds first battle between ironclads. The battle ended with no winner but changed naval warfare forever. -
African Americans and the war
President lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation. The document free enslaved people in all areas that were in rebellion against the United States. -
Gettysburg
The historic three day battle of Gettysburg. The union had about 23,000 casualties out of some 85,000 soldiers. -
Civil rights act
This bill gave African Americans citizenship and guaranteed them the same legal rights as white Americans. -
Southern reaction
A group called the ku klux klan formed in 1866 and terrorized African Americans. Some whites supported their rights. -
Republicans in charge
To protect African American voting rights republicans quickly pushed the fifthteen amendment through congress. -
Economic changes
Most freedmen and poor white southerners were share croppers. -
Reconstruction ends
State goverments could not control the violence, congress passed the enforcement act during 1871. -
Discontent with reconstruction
Liberal republicans helped democrats regain power in congress. -
Discontent with reconstruction
Depression began and turned republican leaders attention away from reconstuction.
