Abolitionism and US Civil War

By MatthieuC6

  • Law Banning Slave Trade in UK

  • Federal Law banning Slave Trade

  • Congress of Vienna

    First International Disapproval of Slavery

  • 100 days = Banning of Slave Trade

  • Confirms ban of Slave trade in Treaty of Paris

  • Creation of the 'Underground Ralway'

  • Ordinance to fully ban slave Trade in France

  • Congress of Aix la Chapelle

    Banning of Slave trade in Austria, Prussia, Russia and France

  • Real serious taken by French against slave trade

  • 650000 slaves in British West Indies

  • Nat Turner revolt

  • Abolition of Slavery in British Empire

  • Calhoun Speech on Slavery

  • Complete and definitive emancipation of slaves in British empires

  • Civil status given to blacks in French empire

  • Slavery abolished in Mayotte

  • Decree abolishing slavery in france

  • Federal law forces police to help slave owners catch escaped slaves

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

  • Creation of Republican Party

  • Kansas Nebraska Law

    End of the 'Missouri Compromise'

  • Scott v. Sandford

    Impossibilité pour un noir d'être citoyen américain

  • Lincoln Elected

  • South Carolina Secession

  • Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas secede

  • Jefferson Davis elected provisional president of the Confederation

  • Lincoln Sworn in

  • Constitution of the Confederation

  • Fort Sumter event

  • New Orleans Captured

    "Anaconda Strategy

  • Emancipation proclamation announced

  • Emancipation Proclamation implemented

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    Battle of Vicksburg

    Lincoln discovers Grant
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    Battle of Gettysburg

  • Lincoln Gettysburg address

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    Battle of the Wilderness

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    Battle of Spotsylvania

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    Battle of Cold Harbour

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    Siege of Petersburg

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    Sherman's march to the Sea

  • 13th Amendment to the US Consitution

  • Lee's armies retreat from Petersburg

  • Lee Surrenders at Appomattox Court House

  • 14th Amendment

    Civil Rights to former slaves

  • All former states back into the Union

  • 15th Amendment

    Voting rights to former slaves

  • Federal Troops out of the former Confederation

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