Abolition

The Civil War

By jasmineflippin
  • The Liberator

    The Liberator

    I will be as harsh as truth, and a uncompromising as justice,,,I will not retreat a single inch-AND I WILL BE HEARD.

  • James Buchanan becomes 15th President

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Banned in the South and told the truth about slavery.

  • The Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Repealed the Missouri Compromise and created popular sovereignty

  • Dred Scott decision

    Roger B. Taney said there was no was to take property or ban slavery

  • Abraham Lincoln was elected

  • South Carolina secedes

  • Battle at Fort Sumter begins

  • Battle of Bull Run

  • Emancipation Proclaimation

  • Battle of Gettysburg

  • Period: to

    Sherman's march to the sea

  • Surrender at Appomattox Court House

  • Lincoln's Assassination