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Missouri Compromise
This made Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state. This was meant to balance out the power within congress. -
Nat Turner Slave Rebellion
Slave rebellion led by Nat Turner involving slaves who killed whites. Inspired the Virginia Slavery debate. -
War With Mexico
War fought over Texas land between Mexico and America. -
Wilmot Proviso
A proposal in the U.S congress to ban slavery in the territory acquired from Mexico. This proposal was unsuccessful. -
Compromise Of 1850
Five laws passed creating California as a free state. Utah and New Mexico were left to decide whether to be a slave or free state. -
Fugitive Slave Act
Act that required slaves to be returned to their owners even if they were in a free state. -
Publication of Uncles Tom's Cabin
Anti-Slave novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe. This book widened the arguments between the North and South. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Missouri Compromise was reversed. This allowed Slavery to be legal in the original areas of the Louisiana Purchase. -
Bleeding Kansas
Pro and anti-slavery war. Led to Republican Party being created. -
Dred Scott Decision
The U.S Supreme Court exceeded in Missouri Compromise because it had no power to forbid or abolish slavery in the west and north. -
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
Raid with a small group of people led by John Brown. Attempt to start an armed revolt of enslaved people. -
Abraham Lincoln elected president
Lincoln did not want slavery to expand anymore. He refused to accept any resolution from South. -
South Carolina secedes
The first state to secede from the Union. South Carolina was one of the founding member sates of the Confederacy -
Formation of the Confederate State of America
7 southern states left the Union to make up the Confederate states. These states including, South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and with representatives from Texas. -
Fort Sumter
Battle between Union and Confederate. The Union were forced to surrender the fort. -
Antietam
Enabled the Union to repel the first Confederate invasion of the North. This allowed Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. -
Vicksburg
Victory for the Union that gave them control over the Mississippi river. The Union shut down confederate trade. -
Gettysburg
The Confederates were winning the war, but the Union won this battle. -
Appomattox Courthouse
The surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee to the Union commander Ulysses S. Grant.