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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. The Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished.
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bleeding kansas
it was a series of violent civil confrontations in the United States which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas. -
kansas-nebraska act
This act allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´. -
election of 1860
Slavery was a prominent issue in the 1850's, dividing the United States, with the northern abolitionists against slavery and the Southerners for it. Lincoln ran in the Republican Party, whose platform stated that slavery would not spread any farther than it already had. -
Secession of southern states
The force of events moved very quickly upon the election of Lincoln. South Carolina acted first, calling for a convention to secede from the Union. State by state, conventions were held, and the Confederacy was formed. -
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underground railroad
The Underground Railroad was a secret network organized by people who helped slaves escape from slavery to freedom. -
fort sumter is fired upon
Confederate guns around the harbor opened fire on Fort Sumter. At 2:30pm, Major Robert Anderson, garrison commander, surrendered the fort and was evacuated the next day. -
battle at bull run
The First Battle of Bull Run. Each side had about 18,000 really bad soldiers in their first battle.the confederates won, followed by a disorganized retreat of the Union forces. -
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seven days battle
It was a series of six major battles over the seven days during the American Civil War. General Robert E. Lee drove the invading Union Army away from Richmond and into a retreat down the Virginia Peninsula. The series of battles is sometimes known erroneously as the Seven Days Campaign, but it was actually the culmination of the Peninsula Campaign, not a separate campaign in its own right.
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battle of antietam
General George McClellan was fired not long after the battle, despite the victory. President Lincoln was unhappy that McClellan let the overmatched Confederates retreat back to Virginia rather than destroying the army completely. -
emancipation proclamation
As the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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battle at shiloh
40,000 Confederate soldiers under the command of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston poured out of the nearby woods and struck the encamped divisions of Union soldiers occupying ground near Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River.
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reconstruction
There was process of rebuilding the South during the Reconstruction period and introduced a new set of significant challenges. -
south surrenders
Even though it was the most significant surrender to take place during the Civil War, Gen. Robert E. Lee, the Confederacy's most respected commander, surrendered only his Army of Northern Virginia to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. -
lincoln's assassination
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, murderous attack on Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. He was shot in the head by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln died the next morning.
source: https://www.britannica.com/event/assassination-of-Abraham-Lincoln
