Women during The American Civil War
By Annette Lopez
Issue/Background
Precursor Events in The American Civil War
The Missouri Compromise was proposed by Henry Clay that allowed Missouri and Maine to enter the Union and to help balance free and slave states. Only slavery was allowed from the territory acquired in the Louisiana Purchase.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act was a law that was passed by the U.S Congress. This law allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and decide for themselves if slavery should be allowed within their borders.
The Dred Scott Decision
The Dred Scott Decision was a case of an enslaved African American who sued for this freedom because he once lived in free territory. But still the Supreme Court still refused what he was asking and claimed he was still a slaved.
Fugitive Slave Act
Fugitive Slave act was passed by the U.S Congress. This act allowed all citizens to help catch runaway slaves and authorized to return to their owners. If citizens aid any fugitive slaves they would be fined up to $1,000 or put in prison.
Individual women soldiers
Frances Clayton
Annie Etheridge
Harriet Tubman
Groups
"True womanhood" was a group of women who had join from both sides Union and Confederate and volunteered as nurses.