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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise had banned slavery in the Louisiana Territory. -
Fugitive Slave Law
It said that all escaped slaves had to be returned to their masters.
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Compromise of 1850
California enters as a freestate Washington D.C. which had later led to the Fugitive Slave Law to be amended. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The main purpose of the Kansas–Nebraska Act was to open up thousands of new farms -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was a seris of violent political events which had included anti slavery Free-Staters. It was a period of blood/violence between pro slavery and anti slavery groups. -
Dredd Scott Decision
Dredd Scott wasa slave who's master had died. He had thought he was a free man because he lived in a free state. Soon people came to get him saying he was not free. He later went to the Supreme Court and they ruled him as still a slave. -
Douglas-Lincoln Senate Race
This event was a series of seven debates between Abraham Licoln and Stephen Douglas. Both men were running for the postion of Illinois's senator. Slavery in the west?
Lincoln: No
Douglas: Pop Sov -
Raid at Harper's Ferry
John Brown had hope that the local slave people would help him get weapons for his raid for their freedom. He led slaves called Abolitionists. -
Election of 1860
4 candidates- Lincoln wins with 180 electoral votes.
A few weeks later - S.G. secedes -
Fort Sumpter
Fort Sumter was best known for where the first shot had started the Civil War. It was a masonry sea fort. -
Bull Run
The Battle of Bull Run was the first major land battlei Virginia. -
Second Battle of Bull Run
The Second Battle of Bull Run was fought in Prince William County, Virginia. The Confederates had captured the Union supply depot. -
Donelson
The union capture of Confederate fort near the Tennesse-Kentucky border opened an important avenue for the invasion of the South. -
Pea Ridge
The Battle of Pea ridge was a land battle fought at Pea Ridge in northwest Arkansas. It was a two day battle. This time the Confedrates had out numbered the Union, which rarely ever happened. -
Battle of Shiloh
This battle was a major battle in the Western Theater. This particular battle was fought in Tennessee where the Confederates had surprise attacked the Union. -
Anitetam
The Battle of Antietam was the first major battle fought on Union soil. -
Fredericksburg
In this battle, Burnside's plan was to cross the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg in mid-November. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation delared that all people who were slaves within rebllious states are to be let go and be free. -
Vicksburg
The Siege of Vicksburg was the final major military battle of the Civil War. -
Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought in the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate armies during the American Civil War. -
Sherman's March to the Sea
The campaign began with Sherman's troops leaving the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia, and ended with the capture of the port of Savannah. -
Theory of Total War
Total war is a war that may include any and all people-associated resources and military targets. -
13th Amendment
The 13th Amendment had abolished slavery and indentured servanting. Indentured servanting was only to be used for punishment for crimes. -
Surrender at Appomattox Court House
When Confederate General Robert E. Lee and his army were surrounded, his men weak and exhausted, he realized there was little choice but to consider the surrender of his Army to General Grant. -
Lincoln's Assassination and Death
Abraham Lincoln was shot on Good Friday while attending the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre as the Civil War was drawing to an end.
