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Date: October 16, 1859 – October 18, 1859

Description: John Brown was a abolitionist that read Uncle Tom's Cabin and was outraged by this. He decided that he would go and attack Harper's Ferry and start a slave revolt. Sadly none of the slaves helped and they were over taken and later hung for the crimes against the southern states.

Citation: (Magazine)

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Description: Dred Scott sued because he believed that he should be free since his master brought him into 2 free states. This made him feel that he should be freed, but the Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott was not citizen and therefore does not get to be freed because the constitution doesn't say Black slaves are citizens.

Citation: notes

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Date: November 6, 1860

Description: The main issue over the election was slavery. There were four Candidates Stephen Douglas(North D), John Breckinridge(south D), Abraham Lincoln(R), and John Bell(CU). Lincoln won all the northern states while the southern states were all divided between everyone.

Citation: notes

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The American Presidential Election of 1860

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Date: December 20, 1860

Description: Tensions between North and South states finally hit the breaking point when Lincoln was elected, because Southerners believed that he was going to take there slaves away.

Citation: (“20th December 1860: South Carolina Secedes from the United States of America”)

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

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Date: January 1, 1863

Description: Was a Proclamation stating that all slaves in rebellious states be freed, this did not happen. It instead shifted the focus of the war onto freeing enslaved individuals instead of reforming the Union for political goals. It also completely stopped Britain and France from joining the Confederacy because Slavery was morally wrong. This was Lincoln's final attempt to end the war and preserve the Union.

Citation: notes and (Course Hero)

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U.S. History | Emancipation Proclamation

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Date: November 15, 1864

Description: General Sherman led the western Army in a diagonal line toward Atlanta, Georgia. And then from Atlanta to savannah. His entire plan was Total War, causing as much damage as he and his army could, civilian or military. And when he got to the coast he made one last march North to trap General Lee between himself and General Grant.

Citation:notes

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Dates: November 19, 1863

Description: The Gettysburg Address outlined why the war was being fought and outlined the principles of America. It told why the men that died should be treated as heroes, and discussed what remained yet to be accomplished

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Date: July 1, 1863 – July 3, 1863

Description: General Lee invaded the North and General Hooker didn't try to stop them until after they entered Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania was a large part of transportation for the north, so for the south to take it would be devastating for the north. But it was a great victory for north and shifted the war in favor of the North.

Citation: notes

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Date: April 12, 1861 – April 9, 1865

Description:

Large industrial capacity

Larger population(22 million vs 9 million-4 million slaves)

Better transportation systems-railroads

Established armed forces

Established banking system

Citation:(“Northern Advantages in Civil War”)

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Date: April 12, 1861 – April 9, 1865

Description:

Fighting a defensive war

Better military leadership/tradition

Men are more suited for outdoor life and have better knowledge of the terrain

Fighting for their way of life and their state

Citation:(“Civil War Advantages of North and South | Daily Bellringer”)

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Civil War Advantages of North and South | Daily Bellringer

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Date: May 18, 1863

Description: Battle led by Grant to take control of the Mississippi River, but confederates refused to surrender. Confederates surrendered on July 4, 1863. This victory now split the confederacy into two parts. And Lincoln promoted Grant to commander of all Western Union Forces.

Citation: notes

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Date:September 17, 1862

Description: It was a huge union victory. It shook the southerners morale and lets the Union know that they can win. England and France have postponed plans to aide the confederacy and it gave Lincoln a needed victory and backdrop to issue major political issues (Emancipation Proclamation).

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Date: September 18, 1850

Description: After the south had been complaining that the first fugitive slave law was very poorly enforced, they finally got to have a new and more enforced one made during the compromise of 1850. This new law said that all black runaway slaves were to be returned to the south and the person that captured the slave would be given a reward for it. Which then cause people to force free black people back to the south. After this law was passed it very much pleased the south while making the North very mad and angry about it.

Citation: notes

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Date: September 1850

description:

California would enter as a free state

The remainder of the Mexican territory would be divided into 2 parts(Utah territory and the New Mexico Territory) and allow settlers to decide whether it was a free or slave state by popular sovereignty.

Give land in deputed between Texas and New Mexico to the new territories in return for federal government taking on Texas public debt.

Ban slave trade in Washington DC but still permit ownership of slaves

Strict fugitive slave law

Significance: South was very happy with the new fugitive slave law but angered the north because of it. The fugitive slave law was a large part to the Civil War.

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Sound Smart: Compromise of 1850 | History

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Date:1840's

Description: This law was proposed to outlaw slavery in any territory gained from Mexico, but never was passed.  Being that this didn't pass it did highlight more sectional differences and was another cause of the Civil war.

Citation(“Wilmot Proviso | United States History | Britannica”)

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Date: 1812 - 1900's

Description: A period of westward expansion and the belief that it was America's destiny to expand across the continent.

Significance: Expands the United States

Citation:(Khan Academy)

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Manifest Destiny | Period 5: 1844-1877 | AP US History | Khan Academy

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Fort Sumter National Monument, South Carolina, USA

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Date: April 12, 1861 – April 13, 1861

Description: was the first battle of the Civil War and is where the confederacy placed the Union fort under siege. Was a confederate victory that lead other states to secede.

Citation: notes

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Date: May 30, 1854

Description: This was an act passed by congress to allow the territories of Nebraska and Kansas to be voted to be a free or slave state by popular sovereignty. Which later caused problems between abolitionists and anti abolitionists, later causing bleeding Kansas.

Citation:(TED-Ed)

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How one piece of legislation divided a nation - Ben Labaree, Jr.

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Date: started 1855 and ended 1861

Description: After America received the Kansas Nebraska territory there was a problem figuring out if Kansas and Nebraska should be free or slave states.  They decided it would be decided by popular sovereignty. And now that voting for this is going on people from Adjacent states came into Kansas to vote, causing physical conflict between Abolitionists and anti abolitionists.  Bleeding Kansas was a big contributor to the civil war .

Citation: (“Bleeding Kansas Explained”)

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Date:  originally published March 20, 1852

Description: Book was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that outraged the north over the conditions of slavery and further drove a wedge between the north and the south. Which later caused the south to secede and the civil war begin.

Citation:(CBN News)

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The True Story Behind 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' The Book that Rocked Pre-Civil War America

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Date: signed February 2, 1848

Description::The treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including the land that makes up all or parts of present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Mexico also gave up all claims to Texas and recognized the Rio Grande as America's southern boundary."(History.com)

Significance: Ended the war between Mexico and America

Citation: (History.com Editors)

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Date: April 25, 1846

Description: Texas left the country of Mexico and was no longer a part of it. Now that Texas was no longer in a country they wanted to be annexed by America which irritated Mexico. Causing Texas to be a part of America and having Mexico and America go to war.

Citation: Heimler's History. “The MEXICAN-AMERICAN War [APUSH Review Unit 5 Topic 3] Period 5: 1844-1877.” YouTube, 18 Nov. 2020, www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOCr_4N0RM0. Accessed 9 Dec. 2021.

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