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The Mssouri Compromise (1820) admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state
Drew the line for the expansion of slavery at 36'30" line AKA Mason-Dixon Line. -
1.Introduced the principle of popular sovereignty
2.California is admitted as a free state
3.Slavery question in other Mexican Cession states would be decided by popular sovereignty.
4.Sale of skaves (but not slavery) was prohibited in Washington D.C
5.New Fugitive slave law-required north to return runaway slaves enforced by fed govt -
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the US and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War.
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Stephen Douglas proposed poposed popular sovereignty to decide whether these states would be slave or free.
Kansas-Nebraska Act overturned the Missouri Compromise by allowing popular sovereignty north of 36'30" -
The violent--became known as Bleeding Kasas.
This emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas -
Slaves were property not people and had no right to sue in court.
This further justified slavery, because the Supreme Court ruled Congress had no right to restrict expansion of slavery without violating people's right to own property.
Declared the Missouri Comromise unconstitutional.
Slave Dred Scott was brought to free territory by his owner & sued for freedom. -
Struck fear in the hearts of slave owners
Abolitionists:Hailed Brown as a martye for the cause, leading southerners to believe the felling was common on the North
Martyr:dies for their beliefs
Led raid on Virginia arsenal, with the hope of arming slave and starting a rebellion. -
"Free soil" position on slavery expansion
1860:Abraham Lincoln wins presdential election. -
The first shots were fired on the Union on the Fort on this day. The US Army had to surrender which led to the start of the Civil War
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Although Union troops had the upper hand in the beginning, the Confederacy was triumphant. Shockedthose who hoped the war would end quickly and who were unprepared for the carnage modern warfare would produce.
Lincoln replaced McDowell with General G. McClellan in hopes he would lead the Union to victory. -
The single bloodiest day of the war. 23,000 soldiers (23k) lay dead wounded. First Southern invasion into North. Althought the Union xperienced more losses than the Condeferacy, Lee retreated to Virginia and Lincoln had found the opportunity he needed to move foward with Emancioation Proclamtion.
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Lincoln Decribes the Civil War as a struggle to fulfill the Declaration of Independence and preserve a nation "dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal".
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All persons held as slave within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against th United States, shall be then thenceforward, and forever free;
Revieved into the armed service of the United State to Garrison forts,positions, stations, and other places. -
The surrender of Vicksburg, and the Port Hudson, Louisiana days later, split the Confederacy in half at the Missippi River and gave the Union contro of the river, Key turnin oint in western theatre.
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Lee retreats to Virginia. Nearly 1/3 of his fighting force was dead or wounded. Second and last attenpt of the South to invade the North!
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William T. Sherman also followed the total war strategy. He led his forces on a march to the sea from the Tennessee-Georgie border, utilizing scorched earth methods.
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Lincoln:The 10% Plan, only 10% of the voters in the 1860 election need to
Oath to the Union
Accept the terms of Emancipation. -
Lee surenders to Grant at Appomattox Court House,Virginia
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In 1866, republicans in Congress got a veto-proof majority
Congress used victory as a mandate
Congressional Reconstruction plan was pass by Repubicans in Congress. -
Military Reconstruction Act of 1867
5 military districts that split former Confederacyn and controlled by the US Army -
A compromise was needed to settle the election results.
Suspected fraud and undetermined winner. -
Removed Union Soldired from the South end Military Reconstruction Act
African Americans left to defend for themselves in hostile and unregulated environment of South without Proteching of federal troops
Ended Reconstruction Era
Resolves the election of 1876 -
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark in 1896 U.S Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separte but equal" doctrine. The case stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a car for blacks. Like Rosa Parks refusing to give a seat to a white man on a bus this is Plessy with a train.