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Compromise of 1850
Five separate bills passed and they defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Allowed the people of Nebraska and Kansas to decide if slavery was allowed in their borders -
Emancipation Proclamation
This document freed all enslaved peoples in the rebellious states and keeps foreign help for CSA away. -
Battle of Gettysburg
This battle marked the turning point of the civil war, General Robert E. Lee's defeat by the Potomac forced the confederates to retreat and never recovered from it -
Battle of Vicksburg
Vicksburg falls and cuts the south in half with the Union Victory and appoints Grant to General-in-Chief of the Union Army. -
Gen. Robert E. Lee Surrenders
This surrender at appomattox Courthouse marks the end of the civil war giving a victory to the Union Forces. -
13th Amendment
The 13th Amendment is what abolished slavery. -
Edwin Stanton
Was fired by Andrew Johnson to stop the reconstruction act run by the Secretary of War which was Edwin Stanton. Johnson was then filed with charges of impeachment. -
Military Reconstruction Act
Split South into 5 Military Zones (run by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton) -
Tenure Act
Restricted the power of the president to remove certain office holders without approval of the senate. Therefore Andrew Johnson could not legally fire the Secretary of War Edwin Stanton to stop the military reconstruction act to keep soldiers from being placed in the states. -
14th Amendment
This Amendment makes all persons born in the U.S. citizens. And prevents former CSA from holding office -
Joseph Rainey
First African American to be elected to the House of Representatives -
15th Amendment Passage
Stated that no citizen could be denied the right to vote based on color or race or previous servitude -
Hiram Revels
First African American to serve in the U.S. Congress -
Compromise of 1877
This compromise gave Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency of the 1876 presidential election in exchange for the end of the reconstruction in the south
