A Fight Within

By 40004354

  • Gadsden Purchase

    Gadsden Purchase
    The purchase of Gadsden was bought from Mexico, resulted into todays area known as Arizona and Mexico. The big question was are they going to be free or slave states.

  • Kansas-Nebraska act

    Kansas-Nebraska act
    The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.

  • Violence in Kansas

    Violence in Kansas
    Fight between both factions on whether Kansas should be free or slave. Ended in Bloodshed

  • Lincoln-Douglas Debate

    Lincoln-Douglas Debate
    Series of 7 debates between Abraham Lincoln, republican and Stephen Douglas, democrat. Neither said whether they would ban slavery.

  • John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry

    John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
    John Brown and his sons attempted a raid on Harper's Ferry in order to arm southern slaves and start a revolt. The raid ended unsuccessful as he was caught.

  • Lincoln Elected President

    Lincoln Elected President
    With the south democrats divided, Lincoln won without winning a single southern state.

  • South Succeeds

    South Succeeds
    South leaves Union after Lincoln elected president, South Carolina was first.

  • Civil War begins at Fort Sumter

    Civil War begins at Fort Sumter
    South ordered Union to leave fort Sumter after Lincoln refused south bombed the forth in attempt to get them to surrender.

  • North is defeated at the first battle of Bull Run

    North is defeated at the first battle of Bull Run
    Union was winning in the first half, but Stone Wall Jackson arrived and south held their ground to secure the win.

  • Battle of Antietam

    Battle of Antietam
    First fight in the east as Lee defeated McClellan.

  • Emancipation Proclamation issued

    Emancipation Proclamation issued
    "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free.".

  • Sherman's "March to the Sea"

    Sherman's "March to the Sea"
    Sherman marched towards Atlanta burning everything in his path in attempt to force south to surrender due to lack of supplies and food.

  • Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House

    Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House
    Lee trapped with nowhere to go, surrenders to Grant.

  • Lincoln assassinated

    Lincoln assassinated
    John Booth killed Lincoln after the war while Lincoln watched a play with his wife.

  • KKK formed

    KKK formed
    KKK was a group to force blacks back into "legal" slavery after the Jim crow laws