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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was important because it was made in attempt to maintain a balance between the free and the slave states. http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Missouri.html -
54 40 or Fight
54 ' 40 or fight would be James K. Polks campaign slogan which was used as a way to show the British that the Americans were not afraid of war for all of the Oregan territory. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/oregon.htm -
Annexing of Texas
Well Texas had wanted to be a state but there was a giant thing over whether or not it would be a free or a slave state, because the south was all over it being a slave state whilst the north was strongly against it becoming a slave state. http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h302.html -
Wilmot Proviso
THe Wilmot Proviso was about not having slaves in any of the lands won from Mexico. though it didn't happen becaus eit went through the house and passed twice and never passed the senate. http://www.ushistory.org/us/30a.asp -
TReaty of Guadalupe-Hidago
The offical end to the war with Mexico and the United States had to pay 15,000,000 for lands that Mexico owned. http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/guadalupe-hidalgo/ -
Compromise of 1850
The compromise of 1850 is five different laws that dealt with the issue of slavery. http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Compromise1850.html -
Uncle Tom's cabin
A book published that reveled the true horrific nature behind most slaves lives, and it caused quite an uproar in the south. http://www.ushistory.org/us/28d.asp -
Gasden Purchase
Was the land purchased south of the gila river and makes up what is now south-west New Mexico and southern Arizona. http://www.gadsdenpurchase.com/ -
Republican party founded
After the whig party fell apart after about twenty years and the anti-slavery whigs decided to have a meeting in the north-west and that led to the formation of the Republiccan party which we still have today. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/republican-party-founded -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri compromise allowing slavery in northern territory of the 36 ' 30 latittude. http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/kansas.html -
Brooks-Sumner
House member Preston Brooks beat Senator Charles Sumner with his cane for thigns that he had said during an anti-salvery speech. my notes... -
Harpers Ferry
John Browns attempt at another anti slavery plan. which would help runaway slaves get away and get rid of some of the slaveholders. Brown took captives and help them until gunned down by local miltia and he sent his son to negotiate he was shot... http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2940.html -
Election of 1860
Lincoln becomes the first republican president. http://www.tulane.edu/~latner/Background/BackgroundElection.html -
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1st battle of Bull Run
THe north went into to attack the south and the camped at a river known as bull run and the southerns had somebody warne them so the moved from shenandoah to manassas. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/bullrun.htm -
Monitor v. Merrimack
tthey were against eahc other and the monitor kept the merrimack from gain control of norfolk so there would be no blockade. http://americancivilwar.com/monitor.html -
Battle of Antietam
George McClellan, mounted a series of powerful assaults against Robert E. Lee’s forces near Sharpsburg, Maryland. http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/antietam.html -
Battle of Gettysburg
The largest and most devestating battle of the civil war and is considered the turning point. http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-gettysburg -
Sherman's march
Sherman's plan was an alternative strategy: destroy the South by laying waste to its economic and transportation infrastructure. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/sherman.htm -
Appomattox Courthouse
this was the final engagment of virgina in the war. http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/appomattox-courthouse.html
