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Causes: Missouri Compromise.
The Missouri Compromise was created by Henry Clay to enter the state of Missouri in the Union without disturbing the peace of the of the equal amount of slaves states and free states they enter Manie in the Union as a free state so it could be equal. -
ADVANCEMENTS FOR BLACKS: John Brown
John Brown a white man who helped free some slaves by arming the slaves with wepeans and his own men, and sezied on Robert E. Lee and his men. This lasted at least 36 hours, and most of Browns men was killed or captured. -
SECESSION: Fort Sumert
at Fort Sumter was where the first shot of the Civil War happened. it was the place the place the civil war started. -
CONFEDERATE ADVANTAGES & EARLY SUCCESS: Robert E. Lee
the Virginia Secession Convention, made up of the state's ruling elite, voted to join the Southern states in secession. As practical issues, Lee did not oppose either slavery or secession. Although he felt slavery in the abstract was a bad thing, he blamed the national conflict on abolitionists, and accepted the pro-slavery policies of the Confederacy. -
UNION ADVANTAGES & LATER SUCCESS:Battle of Antietam
The morning assault and vicious Confederate counterattacks swept back and forth through Miller’s Cornfield and the West Woods. Later, towards the center of the battlefield, Union assaults against the Sunken Road pierced the Confederate center after a terrible struggle. -
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
It declared that all persons held as slaves shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free, but it applied only to states designated as being in rebellion, not to the slave holding border states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri or to areas of the Confederacy that had already come under Union control. -
GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
On July 1, the advancing Confederates clashed with the Union’s Army of the Potomac, commanded by General George G. Meade, at the crossroads town of Gettysburg. The next day saw even heavier fighting, as the Confederates attacked the Federals on both left and right. -
SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX
Confederate General Robert E. Lee (1807-70) surrendered his approximately 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant (1822-85) in the front parlor of Wilmer McLean’s home in Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War (1861-65).
