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A series of compromises used to advert crisis between the North and the South, one of them being the Fugitive Slave Act.
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A series of trials where Dred Scott, a slave, sued for freedom since he had been taken into a free state and was kept as a slave.
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John Brown led a raid on Harper's Ferry in attempt to seize the federal arsenal and lead a slave rebellion.
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Confederate forces attack Fort Sumter and the Civil War officially begins.
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The first major battle in the Civil War and was a Confederate win.
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The bloodiest single-day battle in the Civil War. It ended the Confederate invasion of Maryland in 1862 and was Union victory.
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A document that stated that if the Southern states didn't cease their rebellion by January 1st, 1863, then the Proclamation would go into effect. The Proclamation declared slaves held in Southern states would become free.
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General Grant leads the Union army into siege on Vicksburg, trapping the Confederate army.
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Union victory that stopped General Lee's second invasion into the South.
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A Union win that caused the Confederate Army of Tennessee to retreat to Georgia.
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General Lee surrenders Army of Northern Virginia to General Grant.
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Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre.
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13th Amendment was ratified and formally abolished slavery in the United States.
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An act that made the plan for readmitting Southern states into the Union.
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For the first time ever a president is impeached and the eleven articles of impeachment are adopted.
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One of the most disputed elections in history, with Rutherford Hayes as the winner rather than Samuel Tilden.
