civil war

By masoncompton243

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    Let Missouri in as a slave state and Maine in a free state, thus maintaining balance of free and slave states.

  • Nat Turner Slave Rebellion

    Nat Turner Slave Rebellion
    Slave Rebellion led by Nat Turner. Happened in Southampton country, Virginia; the rebels killed around 60 people.

  • Wilmot Proviso

    Wilmot Proviso
    Proposal to keep the entire Mexican territory free states. Did not pass.

  • War with Mexico

    War with Mexico
    War over the land currently known as Texas. Main cause of the war was Americas westward expansion. Ended 02/02/1848.

  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    Laws were passed in 1850 dealing with issue of slavery, Fugitive Slave Act was added and the slave trade Washington D.C. was banned.

  • Fugitive Slave Act

    Fugitive Slave Act
    Run away slaves must be returned to their owners if found.

  • Publication of Uncle Toms Cabin

    Publication of Uncle Toms Cabin
    Book about what it was like being a slave working in the fields.

  • Kansas- Nebraska Act

    Kansas- Nebraska Act
    Used popular sovereignty to determine if states could own slaves or not.

  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas
    Series of Civil violence in Kansas. All over Slaves.

  • Dred Scott Decision

    Dred Scott Decision
    Dred Scott was denied the right to sue because slaves were not counted as citizens.

  • John Browns Raid on Harpers Ferry

    John Browns Raid on Harpers Ferry
    Tried to led slave rebellion, but no one showed up so he ended up being trapped and eventually killed for treason. North saw him as a martyr and show saw him as a terrorist.

  • Abe Lincoln is Elected as President

    Abe Lincoln is Elected as President
    Abe won election without a single southern vote. South seceded for the US soon after he was elected.

  • South Carolina secedes

    South Carolina secedes
    They had already determined that if Abe Lincoln won the election they would leave the US. Other southern states followed their lead.

  • Formation of the CSA

    Formation of the CSA
    Leaders from 6 different seceded states put together a unified government.

  • Fort Sumter

    Fort Sumter
    Union forces surrender during this battle.

  • Antietam

    Antietam
    Gave Abe Lincoln the opportunity to announce the Emancipation Proclamation

  • Vicksburg

    Vicksburg
    Union gained the control over the Mississippi River. Ended in July of 1863

  • Gettysburg

    Gettysburg
    Union victory. Was the bloodiest battle of the war. Ended July 3, 1863

  • Appomattox Courthouse

    Appomattox Courthouse
    Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his army to General Grant.