Civil War

By kayleighsmom

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri allowed to join the Union as a slave state

  • Nat Turner's Rebellion

    Nat Turner's Rebellion

  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850

  • Shots fired at Fort Sumter

    Shots fired at Fort Sumter

  • First Battle of Bull Run

    The Confederate army defeats the Union army at the First Battle of Bull Run in Virginia

  • USS Monitor vs CSS Virginia battle

    The ironclad ships USS Monitor and CSS Virginia battle, ending in a draw.

  • Lee's invasion of the North end in retreat

    Casualties total 26,000 in the Battle of Antietam. Lee's invasion of the North ends in retreat.

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    President LIncoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation. THis document eventually fress all slaves.

  • Battle of Gettysburg

    The Union army defeats the Confederate army at the Battle of Gettysburg. This is the turning point of the war.

  • Surrender of Vicksburg

    Confederate troops surrender the town of Vicksburg after 40 days of nonstop cannon assaults from teh Union army.

  • Gettysburg Address

    President LIncoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at teh dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the battlefield in Gettysburg.

  • Union army captures Atlanta, GA

    The Union army captures Atlanta, Georgia. The city is burned to the ground by Sherman's troops.

  • President Lincoln re-elected

  • General Lee surrenders

    Confederate General Lee surrenders to Union General Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia

  • Lincoln assassinated

    Before President LIncoln can help restore the South to the Union, he is assassinated.