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Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions written
After the time when the Alien and Sedition Acts were passed, that built the army up by heavily taxing the states, James Madison, Jefferson and other Republicans thought that this Act was unconstitutional. Because only a "party" felt this way. They left it up to the states to determine wheater or not is was Constitutional or not. With the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, which were adopted by their states respresentatives, they were given the right to void federal laws. -
Hartford Convention meets during war of 1812
The war of 1812 consisted of heavy American casualties, but a victory along their side, once the British retreated from Baltimore. During the wintery month of December delegates were sent down to Connecticut to discuss the possibilities of leaving the nation. However, this did not turn out to be the topic of the meeting, instead deleates began to think of way to increase the New Engalnder's political power, by looking back at the Constitutional amendments. -
Missouri Compromise
That balance between the North and South was equal and stable until Missouri came into the world and wanted to be a slave state. This would disrupt the balance of the eleven South states (which are also slave states) and eleven North states. In response Massachusetts took matters into its own hands and made a boarder in their own land, and created the state of Maine to keep the balance equal. This Compromise mainly states that slaves were closed off in the Louisiana Purchase. -
Tariff of Abominations passed
The Tariff of Abominations was a series of Acts that was passed that taxed the importation of goods, to ensure that the people of America could not only result on buying the inexpensive goods shipped to their country, but the states and country's good were to be purchased as well. This "protective" tariff was said to have benifited the North and degrade the South of the benifits the North got, meaning they were getting an unfair/ higher taxes then those of the North. -
South Carolina tries to nullify
http://www.ushistory.org/us/24c.asp</a>With the tensions already becoming tight between the North and South, due to the Norths lack of taxes, while the South had the put on heavily, and also had a hard time benifiting from the Tariff that was passed. To try to make themselves even with the North the local southeners passed another tariff, except with lower rates, then the Tariff of Abomnination. At this point as far at the South was concerned there was no tariff, because they had put their best foot foward.
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Abolition of Slavery Act
http://www.tshaonline.org/day-by-day/30565Debates among the United States about proslavery or antislavery had been going on for years, causing many fights to break out. One man by the name of Wilberforce pushed to abolish the Slavery Act. He went to desperate measures to achieve this act, it was not only a personal goal but it would obtain the happiness for many throughout the United States. -
Texas declares Independence from Mexico
http://www.tshaonline.org/day-by-day/30565Texas was one of the newest added states to America, that was conquered from Mexico. In the winerty month of March the new state declared its indendence. Only a day before on March first a Convention was put into place and delegates were assigned to draft a Consitiution. The document was done in record time, and within one days notice the state of Texas became a free state. -
James Polk elected president
http://www.nchistoricsites.org/polk/main.htmJames Polk a very intelectual man who saw through the eyes of the American people, and knew what they wanted and when. When elected into office he knew that the people wanted more land, and only a year later he added with his approval Texas as the twenty eighth state to America. With Texas in their hands Polk knew the people wanted more, and that is what he presidentcy mainly set out to do; obtain land from the Spainards to add onto their very own hungary country. -
Mexican War
http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/index_flash.html Mexico forced tensions to rise between themselves and America. The United States claimed that they Rio Grande was the boarder that separated their territory, while Mexico spoke otherwise and claimed that the Nueces River was the dividing line. Polk as well as the Americans desired more of Mexico, either side engaged, blood had been shed and war had been declared. -
California enters the Union
http://www.liberty-ca.org/presentations/california_bear_flag_revolt.htmAmerica took the lead in the tight tensions with Mexico. America planned a suprise attack which was lead by Illiam B. Ide on Mexico in the Southern town on of Sonoma, and it was conquered. The settelers flag was a grizzly bear, therefore calling this dispute the Bear Flag Revolt. It was only soon after when the United States pulled through and conemdiered the Northern part of what was named California. This became another state added to the rapid and hungary developing United States. -
Wilmont Proviso
http://www.ushistory.org/us/30a.aspWhile America and Mexico were in conflict in the Mexican War, Congress was debating to whether or not allow slavery in Texas, or any other land from Mexico aquired by America. EIther way the balance of political power was at unrest. The Wilmont Proviso was a bill that came about to Congress and attached was a Proviso preposed by David Wilmontan. The amendment that was not not passed by Congress that stated that slavery would be abolished in all areas conquered by the United States from Mexico. -
Fugitive SLave Law enacted
http://www.nationalcenter.org/FugitiveSlaveAct.html Henry Clay a man from kentucky got involded with Congress after the war of 1812. He thought the worlds problems could be fixed with words and not bloodshed. His idea of this uptopia was called the Compromise of 1850, and with it came five new laws. One of which was the Fugitive slave law, that stated that all run away slaves must be returned to their owners. -
Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/Utc.htmThe Compromise of 1850 did nothing but determine California's freedom. In fact t did not settle what it said it was going to; issue slavery in the land conquered by America from Mexico. The Fugitive Slave Act that was supposed to help the nation, in response made the Northerners outraged. One man in particular that was out of his mind was Harriet Beecher Stowe who let his mind pour out in the his book Uncle Tom's Cabin. This booked many points that pertained to many about slavery. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act passed
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/kanneb.aspThe Kansas- Nebraska Act all came about when a man by the name of Senator Stephen Douglas wanted te be more then just a Senator and move his way to to presidency. However to acheve his presidency he must win support o the Democrats. Democrats are spread among the North and South so Douglas introduced this act which let the people where they lived decided wheather or not to allow slavery instead of Congress deciding, and he also knew that this would make the South happy. -
Formation of Republican Party
http://www.ushistory.org/gop/origins.htmThe past bill that was passed; the Kansas and Nebraska Act favored the South, but now the Northw as ready to get back, they held meetings to protest the bill. This then formed the Republican Party to abolish slavery, as they declared that it was and evil act. The new party demanded to repeal the Nebraska Kansas Act and the Fugitive Slave Act. Mostly the purpose of the Republican party was to go against slavery. -
"Border Ruffians" attack Lawrence
http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/bitstream/handle/2188/827/10_bleed_kan.htm?sequence=6The tensions had turned to Anti-Slavery v.s Slavery; or the North against the South, At this point in time Kansas had been broken up nto two competing parts, one being antislavery at Topeka and the other being proslavery in Lecompton. The tensions in Kansas began to tighten to an extent were violence got involved and the proslaverists who were also the South looted homes and newspapers in the center of the antislavery towns (one of which was Lawernce). -
Pottawatomie Creek
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2952.html This event is also known as the "Bleeding in Kansas." From this title it teels the act was a grusome event. On this night Brown lead a group of New Englanders to Lawrence and they took five men out of their house and killed them in front of their family's. This was a very bloody and terrible event that was done out of pure anger. -
Charles Sumner attacked
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/documents/documents_p2.cfm?doc=132Only one day later another terrible bloody event occured, this time it was refered to as the "Bleeding Sumner." The violence was brought about in the United States capitol when senator Charles Sumner who was a true and leading Republican attacked the Southerners. He did so in a harsh manner because the South still supported slavery and forced it among their states. Sumner in the attack was badly injured, and he was forever hated through the South, which is how he left his legacy. -
Dred Scott decision announced
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2933.html Dred Scott of slave of Illinois urged for his freedom, he went to the farthest extent he could to gain what his heart desired most. The sued fro his freedom, and with the power and determination he had beind his heart he won his freedom. However, it did not last forever... Only two years later the court called him back and returned him back into the life of slavery. -
The Lecompton Constitution
http://www.territorialkansasonline.org/~imlskto/cgi-bin/index.php?SCREEN=show_document&document_id=103081&SCREEN_FROM=keyword&selected_keyword=Lecompton%20Constitution&startsearchat=5The Lecompton Constitution came about when a group of proslaverists met together in Kansas. Unfortunetly for that group Kansas is mostly populated by antislaverists, which meant there were mny votes going against this Constitution. Many people spoke out against the newly written document. President Buchman whom was a Democrat endorsed the Constitution. The Document was sent back to Kansas and there it was defeated and not brought up again. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/lincolndouglas/Two men, Senator Douglas, and Abraham Lincoln had very different views on the ideas of slavery. Senator Douglas believed that American over power blacks and slaves, and white citizens were the dominant race. While Abrahman thought otherwise, and over looked the differences between blacks and whites. These men began a series of debates to deal with the issue of slavery. The debates stated that majority rules. -
Raid at Harper's Ferry
http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215469/raid_at_harper's_ferry.htmThis was a tragic day for the people of the South, and it was only three years after the raid at Pottawatomie Creek. when John Borwn attacked the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry. He went forth with his raid by traveling with twenty one men, some of which were blacks. The goal of his raid was to capture the weapons and give them to slaves. -
Formation of Constitutional Union Party
http://www.course-notes.org/parties/Constitutional_Union_PartyThis was a union organized in Baltimore after the split of the North and South. It consisted of members that disagreed with the acts of Congress, it critisized the acts of the government in the center of the United States. Throughou this time it was thought that the center of the nation would become the battlefield of the United States cival war. -
Democrats split in 1860
http://www.tulane.edu/~latner/Background/BackgroundElection.htmlThe split of the Democratic party came about during the summer of the election of 1860. The split of the party was distinguished when neither the North or the South Democrats could decide of a canidate for president. Some for proslavery and others were against it, however Lincoln won who was against slavery which was the final blow that separated the Democratic party. -
Election of 1860
http://www.tulane.edu/~latner/Background/BackgroundElection.htmlOut of control delegates tried to meet together from the North and South, and the Southeren delegates ended up leaving the meeting and a dividing line was made that separated the North and South. When the Election of 1860 came about in November it seemed that there was no chance of repair. It sprung the fierce campainging of Lincoln and Bell. However Lincoln pulled through with the victory and won the presidency, without winning a single electoral vote in the South. -
South Carolina Secedes
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec.aspDuring the time in December of 1860 when Sotuh Carolina decided to secede from the Union this was a very drastic point in history. With the presidency rolling around the corner and the votes were directed towards Lincoln (from the electoral college) he was goign to have much work to do. He believed that slavery could not be abolished in hte states were it had already existed but could stop the spread and keep the Union together. Lincoln viewed their actions as just plain rebellion. -
Virginia Secedes
http://www.janus.umd.edu/Feb2002/Cote/01.html
After the secsession of South Carolina, it sparked the minds of other states to think that they were their own and dismiss themselves. It was after the first Battle of Bull Run where Richmond, Virginia and the rest of Virgina as well, was in uproar, and caused a mob this lit the minds of Virginia and caused them to seceed -
Abraham Lincoln inaugurated
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/civil/jb_civil_lincoln2_1.htmlThe Compitition was fierce between Lincoln and Douglas during the presisential campaign in the mid eighteen fifty's. Douglas was more favored in the South becuase he wanted slavery, while Lincoln did not and wanted to keep the Union together. Lincoln did not win the popular vote, but when the decision got put into the hands of the electoral college they chose Lincoln and he was swarn into office with alot of work ahead of him in 1861. -
Fort Sumner Attacked
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/fort-sumter.htmlIn Charleston, New Jersey is where the Attack of Fort Sumner took place. This battle lasted thirty four hours and the only casuality was a confederate horse. Although the battle only last just over a day and the only death was a horse the town looked as though it was left in ruins. Many buildings were destoryed and the towns looked more auful then the battle actually was. There were also mixed reactions from capitals across America. -
1st Battle of Bull Run
http://library.thinkquest.org/3055/netscape/battles/bullrun.htmlDuring the beginning of the First battle of Bull Run the tide of war was in the Union’s favor. However this battle turned out to be yet another Southern victory. Jackson a Confederate who was nicknamed “Old Blue Light” was a key to the Confederates success, he held locations for the Confederates to move in on. Then during the counterattack he told his men to yell like fury, which lead them to victory. -
Battle of Monitor and the Merrimac
http://www.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/va008.htmThe Merrimac was an odd looking vessel that the South created, that was iron plates bolted together. This giant steamship would crush any Union boat that came close. When Lincoln heard of the South vessel that was built he ordered one for the Union to be built. It turned out to look like a tin can on a raft, this was called the Monitor. In March the Monitor arrived in Virginia, and either ship did not do to much damage to the other but, the Merrimac ended on retreating. -
Battle of Shiloh
http://library.thinkquest.org/3055/netscape/battles/shiloh.htmlIn Pittsburg Confederate general Johnston forces of about fourty thousand troops suprised attacked The Union. Union general Grant after only the first day of the Battle of Shiloh they had been pushed back to the Tennessee River. Grant upset with the actions suprised a counterattack during the night and defeated Johnston's army. On either side many men were lost, the Union about thirteen thousand, and the Confederates eleven thousand, with them was general Johsnton. -
McClellan Returns to Washington after the Peninsula Campaign
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/tl1862.htmlInt he summer of 1862 McClellan was still threatening the Confederate capital of Richmond, after the Peninsula Campaign. Confederate general Jackson devised a plan of deception, where he pretended llike he was going to attack Washington (the Union capital). SO, with doing to McClellan was told to store troops in Washington. Although in this Seven Days Battle the Confederates lost more men McClellan still decided to retreat. Leaving the Union with yet another loss. -
Battle of Antietam
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/antietam.html?gclid=CJ3bxrbypK0CFQXd4Aodu30OoAAnother battle fought between the Confederates and the Union, however this time the South wanted to get England on their side, and they refused. This Battle was fought in a cornfield, which was a huge advantage to the Southerns. With cigars found of the South's battle plans, they were kept secret and could have helped win for the Union. However, this war ended with nothing accomplished, and no land was gained or lost on either side. -
2nd Battle of Bull Run
http://www.nps.gov/mana/historyculture/second-manassas.htmConfederate general Lee, started to get greedy for another win and strongly desired to conquer the Union on their own soil. However the Confederate army did not have alot of support and craved it to get momey and weapons for their future battles. This Battle was another loss for the Union, and it caused McClellan to return to general, due to Pope's faliure. -
Battle of Fredericksburg
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/fredericksburg.html?gclid=CKa49vbnoq0CFUOo4AodBFaLmQIn the frigid Battle, Union general Burnside and McClellan pushed his troops to their fullest potential they could go to, in fighting the Confederates. Also at this time the Confederate general Lee. Throughout the day Union forces fired charge after charge on the Confederates, which caused then to lose half their men. The fighting ended that night with another victory for Lee, and the Union losing about thirteen thousand men. -
Emancipation Proclamation Takes Effect
http://www.mrlincolnandfreedom.org/inside.asp?ID=39&subjectID=3This famous document that Lincoln had created applied to the seceded states of America, and not the boarder states, and Tenessee was not included in this document either because Lincoln was already planning on freeing the slaves there. It did not apply to all of the slaveholding state either because not all of them had seceded. According to this document Licoln had the authority to take slaves away because of the COnstitution and his staying true to it. -
Battle of Chancellorsville
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/chancellorsville.html?gclid=CM3198rsoq0CFYPc4AodSjynlgThe Battle began when the Union forces thought that the Confederates had retreated after the Battle of Fredericksburg, when really they were hiding in the thick woods. That night Lee ordered Jackson and 26,000 men to surround the Union forces, and Hooker- Union general was taken by suprise again. This was yet another easy victory for Lee. However in the night some Confederates mistook Jackson for an enemy and fired three bullets at him. -
Battle of Gettysburg
http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/war/map12.htmlThis battle was three days long. On the first day the Confederate general Lee moved towards Gettysburg and met the Union cavalery there. When met there the Union was pushed away from Gettysburg all the away to Cemetery Hill. By July 2nd both armies had arrived back in Gettysburg, and most of the fighting started to the left of the Union line. By the end of this day the Confederates were sent downt the hill five times. Then by the last day was a Union victory, which turned the tide of war. -
Surrender at Vicksburg
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=70075The surrender at Vicksburg came to be when the Union forces openly fired their cannons on the town of a month. The town was in a tighly restraind seige. The townspeople were living underground to aviod being hit by the shells, and food started to become scarce. Te siege forced civilians and soldiers to resul to consume rats, donkeys, muels, and dogs. Then finally COnfederate troops withdrawed from The Battle. -
Battle of Fort Wagner
http://www.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/sc007.htm
This was a significant Battle in history because it was the first battle where African Americas could fight, and they porved themselves worthy. However when the African Americans were legible to fight it helped the South more then the North, because there was a higher population of them in the South than North. Due to the emense numbers that helped the South they did infact win. -
Lincoln Delivers Gettysburg Address
http://myloc.gov/exhibitions/gettysburgaddress/Pages/default.aspxOnly a few years after the Battle of Gettysburg fifteen thousand people gathered in the town where the Battle was fought. This was a cerimony that was dedicated to the Union soldiers that had died in combat. First Everett spoke, then the podium was turned over to the president; Licoln. His speech was known as the Gettysburg Address. It was a two minute speech that most people during the time did not pay much attention to, now it one of the most beloved speeches known. -
Grant displays fighting style at Cold Harbor
http://www.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/va062.htmWhen Grant became commander of the Union army, and to Sherman (who was general) he immediatly took his first steps in the combat zone. In the summer of 1864 only eight miles away from Richmond, Virginia Grant devised a double attck on the COnfederate army. These two direct charges on the Confederates who were behind strong fortifications caused several thousand of Unio soldiers to die. This was not one of new cammander; Grant's most memorable battles. -
Atlanta burns to the Ground
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=121Johnston the Confederate general at the time started to let the army down leading to his replacement, which was handed over to James Hood. The Union general; Sherman was located only a few miles away from Atlanta. Hood and Sherman engaged in multiple battle, causing the Southerners to lose thousands.With the Confederate troops alreayd weak Sherman bombarded the town leaving it in ruins, and forcing the Confederates to pull out. -
Sherman sets out to Sea
http://blogs.loc.gov/music/2010/08/sherman/In the Fall of 1864 Sherman led a group of sisxty two thousand soldiers out to sea to capture Savannah, Georgia. Sherman was thought to have an unstable mind by many of his own soldiers, many of them thought that he had somehting mentally wrong with him. However, if he did or did not his commander stood by him; Grant. The move to Georgia took place right after leaving Atlanta, where he ordered the troops to burn down the city, and he was ready to make more destruction. -
Sherman reaches Savannah
http://www.manythings.org/voa/history/112.htmlWhen Sherman reached Savannah in December, on the troops way into the town they constructed a three hundred mile long path across Georgia. Going down in their line of destruction were buildings, factories, houses, bridges, and railroad lines, and they siezed and slaughtered livestock. When reached the town they were faced with a tiny Confederate army, that was hardly a fight. They looked at their victory at Savannah as a Christmas present. -
Lincoln delivers 2nd Inaugural Address
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In March of 1865 Lincoln took his second oath in office right as the Civial war was drawing to a close. Lincoln new that the North was on the brink of victory and with knowing so he made yet another famous and beloved speech to the Union telling them the true meaning of war. Sense Lincoln had won the war he really started to win the minds and hearts of the people, and this lead to him being elected for his second term as president, only before he was assassinated. -
Surrender at Appomattox
http://www.nps.gov/apco/index.htmWith the Confederate Army already weak and low in numbers the Union did not see it as nothing other then another great opportunity to attack, and they went foreth with so. The Confederate army had been scrambling to escape, hoping not to lose anymore men then they already had. Once they tried to sneak around the Union army at night they were spotted and ambushed, which caused them to surrender in the town of Appomattox. -
Robert. E Lee Surrenders Commission
http://www.nps.gov/apco/the-surrender.htm
After four years of the Civial War, and over one million casualties Confederate general Robert. E. Lee surrendered in Northern Virginia. He planned to meet Union general Grant in the Mclean House where they could define the surrender. The meetign lasted an hour and a half. This was a huge victory and accomplishment for the North, after all their defeats they still resulted victorious. -
Richmond the Confederate capital, Falls
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_in_the_American_Civil_WarAfter the long seige of Petersburg, Grant captured Petersburg and Richmond. The fall of the Confederate capital in 1865 on Evacuation Sunday spread like wild fire. The soldiers who were defending the town fled to the last open rail line available, and all of these soldiers who were retreating were ordered to set fire to any bridges. All of this destruction caused by the city's own men left large parts of Richmond in ruins.
