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Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Helped inspire the civil war
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Whigs had begun meeting in the upper Midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party.
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Allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders
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Sparked conflict with slave territory
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Slave revolt by abolitionist to take over Harper's Ferry, a US arsenal
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John Brown is executed on charges of treason, murder, and insurrection.
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Elected 16th president of the US. First republican president.
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First state to declare that it seceded from the union
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The start of the Civil War, Confederates attack the Union
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Confederate Capital City of Montgomery, Alabama, the decision was made to name the City of Richmond, Virginia as the new Capital of the Confederacy.
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His first weeks as commander strengthened the defenses instead of attack.
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Suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, arguing that it was both necessary and constitutional for him to have suspended it without Congress
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Confederate beat the Union in Virgina
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He ran unopposed so he automatically won the presidency of the Confederacy.
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Naval engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, a harbour at the mouth of the James River, notable as history's first duel between ironclad warships and the beginning of a new era of naval warfare.
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Union victory in Southwestern Tennessee
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No side really won. Deadliest battle in american history, 23,000 died.
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Over 18,000 causalities. Confederates won. Largest concentration of troops in a Civil War battle
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President Lincoln proclaimed that all slaves will be granted freedom in Confederate and Union
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Confederate defeated the Union's plan to out flank them.
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The most important battle of the Civil War. Union won
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One of the Unions most successful battles in the Civil war.
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Known at the time as Draft Week, were violent disturbances in Lower Manhattan, widely regarded as the culmination of working-class discontent with new laws passed by Congress that year to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War.
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President Lincoln delivered his most famous speech that honored the fallen soldiers.
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Gave oath of office, died the month following his assassination.
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Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime
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Union forces commanded by William Tecumseh Sherman overwhelmed and defeated Confederate forces defending the city under John Bell Hood
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Abraham Lincoln defeats George McClellan in the 1864 election by a landslide.
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Union General William T. Sherman led some 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. The purpose of this “March to the Sea” was to frighten Georgia's civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause.
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Agency of the United States Department of War to "direct such issues of provisions, clothing, and fuel, as he may deem needful for the immediate and temporary shelter and supply of destitute and suffering refugees and freedmen and their wives and children
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The Rebel capital of Richmond, Virginia, falls to the Union, the most significant sign that the Confederacy is nearing its final days.
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Gen Lee surrendered to Ulysses Grant to end the Civil War
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Abe Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theater in DC
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Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth was shot in killed.
