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Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay presented the compromise to the Senate. Clay's compromise contained provisions to appease Northerners a well as Southerners. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe published this novel. Uncle Tom's Cabin stressed that slavery was not just a political contest, but also a great moral struggle. -
Kansas- Nebraska Act
Senator Stephen Douglas introduced a bill in congress that would divide the area into two territories: Nebraska in the North and Kansas in the South. -
Bleeding Kansas
A series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery "Free-States" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian", or "southern" elements in Kansas. Furious over these events, abolitionists organized a rival government in Topeka. Long before bloody violence surfaced in the struggle for Kansas, earning the territory the name "Bleeding Kansas". -
Fort Sumter
Sumter was one of four forts left in Union hands. Lincoln sent food and medicines to hungry men. Davis sends orders to take Sumter, PGT open fired on Fort Sumter. -
Civil War
The Confederacy is formed. Civil War begins. -
Antietam
McClellan ordered his men to pursue LEe, and the two sides fought near a creek called the Antietam. The clash proved to be the bloodiest single-day battle in American history killing more than 26,000. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation. -
Gettysburg
Confederate soldiers uncounted several brigades of Union cavalry under the command of John Buford. The 3 day battle produced staggering losses, 23,000 Union men and 28,000 Confederates were killed. -
Sherman's March
In the spring of 1864, Sherman began his march southeast through Georgia to the sea, creating a wide path of destruction. His army burned almost every house in its path and destroyed livestock. -
Lincolns assassanation
At Our American Cousin, during the third act, a man crept up behind Lincoln and shot the president in the back of the head. -
Congressional Reconstruction
Congress voted to enlarge the Freedmen's Bureau and passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866. That law gave African Americans citizenship and forbade states from passing discrimination laws- black codes- that severely restricted African Americans lives. -
Johnson Impeached
The House impeached Johnson, but he remained in office after Senate voted not to convict. -
KKK
The clans goals were to destroy the Republican party. THey killed perhaps 20,000 people. -
Election of 1876
Democratic candidate SMuel J. Tilden won the popularvote, but was one vote short of the electoral victory. Hayes was elected and Reconstruction ended in the South.
