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Date: 1857
description: ongoing case, Dred Scott and his wife sued for freedom, slaves are not considered citizens therefor have no rights to sue
significance: reason for civil war, win for slave owners
cites: sisks notes

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description: made secession illegal, drew up a document to free all slaves in southern states, civil was shifts to being fought over preserving the union not as much as freeing slaves
significance: increase the morale of the union due to unions military and politically, the last attempt to end the war, British and France no longer were alleys to the confederacy

cites: Sisks notes

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Date: November 1st. - December 21, 1864
description: Sherman led his army into the south and outnumbered confederate army.  November of 1864 Sherman's army marched into Georgia in under a month, left a path of destruction.
significance: frightened Georgia population in leaving the confederate cause
Cites:(Editors, “Sherman’s March to the Sea”)

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Date: June 1863
Description: the 3-day battle (largest/bloodiest in North America), union win
significance: a turning point in the war, shift to the north, inspired Lincolns Gettysburg address

Cites(History.com Editors, “Battle of Gettysburg”)

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Date: May 1863
description: union victory, confederates surrender on July 4, 1864, divided the confederacy, and established General Ulysses S. Grant as a good general
significance: gave union control over the Mississippi river

cites(History.com Editors, “Siege of Vicksburg”) and Sisks notes

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Date: November 19, 1863
description- famous speech that Lincoln gave during the civil war
significance- connected the declaration with the sacrifices of the war and brought it all back to a ¨ new birth of freedom¨

cites: Sisks notes,(History.com Editors, “The Gettysburg Address”)

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Date: 1860

description: Lincoln won, the main issue was slavery and state rights
significants: division of the united states before the civil war

Cites:(History.com Editors)

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Date: December 20, 1860

description: south Carolina was the first state to secede from the union
significance - 10 states seceded after

cites: Sisk notes

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20th December 1860: South Carolina secedes from the United States of America

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- more mass production
-large population
-better transportation
-established armed forces
- banking system

cites: Sisks notes

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- defensive war
-greater military generals
-people in the south were more outdoors and knew the territory
- fighting for everything they got which makes them try even harder

cites: Sisks notes

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Dates: Sept 17, 1862

Description: bloodiest one day battle, lee launched an invasion

significance: emancipation proclamation, shaken morals for the south, gives lincoln a needed victory/ major union victory

cites: Sisks, (History.com Editors, “Battle of Antietam”)

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Battle of Fort Sumter

Dates: April 12-13, 1861

description:
cause: president Lincoln planed on resupplying the fort, then general P.G.T (confederate) stormed Fort Sumter

effect: confederate win, lead other states to secede, Lincoln didn't wanna respond because he didn't want to anger the people, first battle of the civil war,

significance: confederacy won, leads other states to secede

Cites: Sisk notes

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Dates: May 21, 1856

Description: john brown ( abolitionist/ antislavery )  lead a small raid against federalist armory ~ an attempt to start an armed revolt

Significant :
- inflamed sectional tension
- raised stakes for the 1860 presidential election
- intensified north vs. south which became a key reason for the civil war

Cites:(History.com Editors, “John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry”)

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date 1851-1877

description-
-repealed compromise of 1850
-created 2 new territories
-aloud for popular sovereignty

significance
-lead to bleeding Kansas
-proslavery vs antislavery activist
- new republican party

cites: (“U.S. Senate”)

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dates: June 5, 1851

description - anti-slavery novel, in the perspective of Uncle tom, describes what life is like as an enslaved person, and what they go through.

significance - novel sold around the united state and in New England, appealed to the perspective of the north and increased tension between north and south

cite:(“Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Major Themes and Influences”)

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Fugitive slave Laws

date: 1993-1850

description: part of the compromise of 1850, federal laws that allowed capturing and returning of runaway slaves

significant - contributed to one of the reasons of the civil war

Cite(History.com Editors, “Fugitive Slave Acts”)

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Date: 1850

Definition: made up of 5 bills, was used as an attempt to resolve an argument over slavery

significance:
- admitted California  as a free state
- fugitive slave act of 1850
-defined a new boundary, making it easy for slaveholders to recover runways

cites:(History.com Editors, “Compromise of 1850”)

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Dates: August 8, 1846
Description: proposal designed to eliminate slavery
significant: helped bring out the formation of the republican party in 1954
cites:(History.com Editors, “Wilmot Proviso”)

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Dates: February 2, 1848

Description: Treaty that ended the Mexican- American war

significance: took over 55% of Mexico which is now parts of modern-day Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah

Cites:  (“Our Documents - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)”)

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Dates: 1846-1848

Description-
Cause- Mexican not wanting to recognize Texas independence, and Americans desire for westward expansion
Effects - treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Wilmot proviso, Gadsden purchase
significance: fulfilled American ¨manifest destiny¨ to expand territory across North American area

cites: Sisks notes, (History.com Editors, “Mexican-American War”)

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Date: 1812-1867

Description: Idea that the united states were destined by God to expand control, democracy, and capitalism in North America.
significance: Used to justify the forced removal of the natives.

Cites: (History.com Editors, “Manifest Destiny”)

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Dates: 1855- 1859
Description:
cause- Kansas was participating in guerrilla warfare against pro and anti-slavery forces
effects- Help brown raise money for his raid on Harper ferry, then failing to lead him to be executed and martyr for the abolitionist cause.
significance: staging ground for what some people called the first battle of the civil war

Citation:  (History.com Editors, “Bleeding Kansas”)