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Compromise Of 1850
Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 involving anti-slavery Free-States and pro-slavery Border Ruffian, or southern elements in Kansas. -
Dred Scoot Decision
This decision declared slaves as private property and they had no rights -
Harper Ferry Raid
John Brown led a failed raid trying to arm slaves in Virgina -
South Carolina Leaves the Union
South Carolina was the first state to succeed from the United States -
Lincoln Sends supplies to fort
he sends food and medical supplies to the fort -
Fight Fort Sumter
P.G.T Beauregard opens fire on fort Sumter -
North Anaconda Plan
North outnumbered the south by about 2:1 So the north plans to attack from all directions -
South Attacks
CSA 12,000 killed in 3 hours battle ends in a draw -
Battle Of Fredricksburg
Burnside Attacks Lee Union loses 13,000 and CSA lost 5,000 -
Emancipation Proclamation Abraham Lincoln
Frees all enslaved people in rebellious states -
13th Amendment
Abolished Slavery -
KKK
The Ku Klux Klan, with its long history of violence, is the most infamous and oldest of American hate groups. Although black Americans have typically been the Klan's primary target, it also has attacked Jews, immigrants, gays and lesbians and, until recently, Catholics. -
14th Amendment
defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons. -
15th Amendment
granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
