Sectionalism & Civil War

Three part compromise arranged by Henry Clay that created a temporary truce on the political issue of slavery: Missouri added as a slave state, Maine added as a free state, above 36°30' line =free,

below =slavery

• Wilmot Proviso

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Four part compromise arranged by Henry Clay that strengthened enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act, banned slave trade in DC, admitted California as a free state, and implemented popular sovereignty to decide upon the issue of slavery in Utah and New Mexico

• Missouri Compromise

• Wilmot Proviso

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

Allowing the vote of the people to determine issue of government

• Missouri Compromise

• Wilmot Proviso

• Popular Sovereignty

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

This negated the Missouri Compromise by allowing states in “forever free” territory to decide upon the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty

• Wilmot Proviso

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Popular Sovereignty

Amendment to Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo to forbid slavery in newly acquired Mexican Cession; did not pass Senate, never became law

• Popular Sovereignty

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Wilmot Proviso

First shots of the Civil War, battle over coastal fort

• Battle for Atlanta

• Battle of Vicksburg

• Battle of Fort Sumter

• Battle of Antietam

Gave command of the Mississippi River to the Union, dividing the Confederacy

• Battle of Vicksburg

• Battle of Antietam

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Battle for Atlanta

Bloodiest single-day battle of the war resulting in 25,000 casualties; inspired Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation to enlist Black Americans to fight for the Union and threatened to emancipate slaves in rebelling states

• Battle of Vicksburg

• Battle of Antietam

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Battle for Atlanta

Turning point of war; last Confederate attempt to invade the North; bloodiest battle of the war; 50,000 people died; Lincoln gave famous speech emphasizing the sacrifice of those that passed fighting to preserve the Union

• Battle of Vicksburg

• Battle of Antietam

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Battle for Atlanta

Culminating battle in Sherman's Atlanta Campaign; followed by Sherman's March to the Sea during which Union troops moved south toward Savannah destroying railroads and other important infrastructure

• Battle of Fort Sumter

• Battle of Vicksburg

• Battle of Antietam

• Battle for Atlanta