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Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was introduced by Senator Henry Clay. As part of the Compromise of 1850 California was admitted as a free state. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a bill that give people the authority to allow settlers to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a state’s borders. The biggest problem was that unlike New Mexico and Utah the territory of Nebraska and Kansas was North of the Missouri compromise. -
Dred Scott
In 1857 a slave by the name of Dred Scott was brought to Illinois and Wisconsin, free states, from Missouri by his owners. He figured that since he was now living in free states that he should be able to be a free man. -
Bull Run
The first shots of the Civil War were shot in Fort Sumter and the battle between the North and the South has begun. About three months later the first person was killed near the creek of Bull Run. -
Antietam
In 1862 General McClellan ordered his men to pursue Robert E. Lee near a creek called the Antietam. The battle between the two of them ended up being one of the bloodiest single day battles in the entire history of America. Over 26,000 people ended up dying. -
The Gettysburg Address
The Battle of Gettysburg, in July of 1863, was a devastating battle where about 51,000 people total died. A few month later in November President Lincoln held a ceremony dedicated to a cemetery in Gettysburg where he gave his famous speech that changed peoples view on the United States. -
Vicksburg
Union General Ulysses S. Grant takes Vicksburg after a long siege. The people stayed there until they eventually ran out of food and were forced to end up eating dogs and mules and the Confederates asked Grant to surrender. -
Lincoln is Assassinated
Lincoln and his wife went to FOrd's Theatre in Washington to see a British comedy called Our American Coisin. DUring the Third act a man, John Wilkes Booth, snuck up behind Lincoln and shot him in the back of the head, for the first time in history a president had been assassinated.
