1850 - Compromise of 1850 said that California be a free state to apease the north and implimented a stricter fugitive slave law to apease the south. Also that territories Utah and New Mexico be given popular sovernty.
1854 - The Kansas Nebraska Act Repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed popular sovernty in Kansas and Nebraska territories. 1855 - Bleeding Kansas Fights broke out over wether Kansas should be a slave state or free state. 1857 - The Dred Scott Decision A Supreme Court case over a slave who was brought to a free state then back to the south and remaind a slave. The court said that going to a free state doesn't make a slave free. 1858 - Lincoln-Douglas Debates Douglas won the Senate seat, but Lincolns arguments changed peoples view on slavery. 1859 - Haper's Ferry John Brown planned a slave revolt but was stopped and exicuted. North and South both reacted in extreme way but opposite. 1860 - Lincoln's Election Lincoln is elected president which convinces the South that secession was a good idea. 1861 - Fort Sumpter Lincoln niether reinforced or abandoned. Its fall united the North 1861 - Bull Run Southern moral skyrocketed after the victory. 1861 - Antietam Bloodiest day in American history 1863 - Emancipation Proclamation Made slavery illegal used a a war tactic to deprive the south of an income 1863 - Gettysburg and Gettysburg Adress Most desisive battle of the war and the Adress unified thne nation. 1865 - Andersonville Prison Confederate millitary prision withterrible conditions. 1865 - Surrender at Appomattox Court House The south surrendered under the north's genourous conditions after - Reconstruction Changes in the way the country is run |