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Kansas Nebraska Act
Senator Stephan Douglas, popular sovereignty seemed like an excellent way to decide whether slavery would be allowed in the Nebraska territory. Kansas and Nebraska territory was legally closed to slavery. -
Bleeding Kansas
Term used to describe the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. Both supporters and opponents of slavery attempted to populate Kansas in order to win the vote-slavery in the territory. Thousands of border ruffians from the slave state of Missouri crossed into Kansas voted illegally and won a fraudulent majority for the proslavery candidates -
The Dred Scott Decision
A major supreme court decision brought by a slave whose owner took him from the slave state of Missouri into a free territory in Illinois & Wisconsin and back to Missouri. he then appealed to the supreme court for freedom on the rounds that living in a free state had made him a free man. This case was in court for years. Finally, on March 6, 1857 the supreme court ruled against Dred Scott. Scott couldn't sue in court because he was not and never could be a citizen. -
Lincolns election
As the presidential election approached in 1860, Republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln to be president. Although he pleaded to abolish slavery, he also tried to reassure Southerners that a Republican administrator would not (interfere with their slaves or with them about their slaves) Southerners viewed him as an enemy. he did not appear on the ballot in most states. -
Battle of Bull Run
July 21, 1861, Union and Confederate armies clashed near Manassas Junction, Virginia, in the first major land battle of the American civil war. It began wen about 35,000 Union troops marched from the federal capital in Washington D.C. to strike a confederate force of 20,000 along the river known as Bull Run.Te confederate victory gave the south a surge of confidence -
Battle of Vicksburg
Also called the siege of Vicksburg, was the culmination of a long land and naval campaign by Union forces to capture a key strategic position during the American Civil War. It was a Union victory -
Emancipation Proclamation
Although Lincoln did not like slavery, he didn't believe that the federal government had the power to abolish it were it already existed. Lincoln found a way to use his war powers to end slavery. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Most decisive battle of the war. The battle of Gettysburg began on July 1 when confederate soldiers encountered several brigades of Union cavalry. July 2, Lee ordered general James Longstreet attack Cemetery Ridge. July 3, Lee ordered an artillery barrage on the center of the Union lines on cemetery Ridge. 3 day battle produced losses: 23,000 Union men and 28,000 confederates were killed or wounded. casualties were more than 30% . -
Sherman's March
Sherman began is march Southeast trough Georgia to the sea, creating a wide path of destruction. Sherman's army burned almost every house in its path and destroyed livestock and railroads. Sherman was determined to make Southerners (so sick of war that generations would pass away before they would again appeal to it) Sherman's forces followed by 25,000 former slaves turned North to help Grant (wipe out Lee) -
KKK (Ku Klux Klan)
Most notorious vigilant group founded in 1866 te Ku Klux Klan extended in almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the republican parties Reconstruction-era policies aimed at established political and economic equality for blacks. -
Grants election
1868 presidential election, te Civil War hero won by a total of only 306,000 votes out of almost 6 million ballots cast. More than 500,000 Southern African Americans had voted.
