American Civil War

By mgilchrist

  • Missouri Compromise

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • The Republican Party nominates Abraham Lincoln as its candidate for president

  • Abraham Lincoln is elected president of the United States

  • South Carolina secedes from the Union

  • Mississippi secedes from the Union

  • Florida secedes from the Union

  • Alabama secedes from the Union

  • Georgia secedes from the Union

  • Louisiana secedes from the Union

  • Texas secedes from the Union

  • The Confederate Constitution is adopted in Montgomery, Alabama

  • Jefferson Davis is elected provisional president of teh Confederacy

  • Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the president of the Confederacy

  • Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as the sixteenth president of the United States

  • South Carolina troops open fire on Fort Sumter, marking the beginning of the American Civil War

  • Major Robert Anderson surrenders Fort Sumter to the Confederates