Civil War

By BJeanineC

  • Joseph Smith Killed

  • Period: to

    Calfornia Gold Rush

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin published

  • Republican Party Formed

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Perry opens Japan

  • Know Nothing Party formed

  • Period: to

    Bleeding Kansas

  • Sen. Charles Sumner Assaulted

  • Dred Scott Case

  • Period: to

    Mormon v US war averted

  • Lincoln-Douglas Debates

  • John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry

  • Comstock Lode

  • South Carolina secedes

  • Abraham Lincoln Elected

  • Ft Sumter Attacked

  • 1st Battle of Bull Run Fought

  • Period: to

    David Farragut captures New Orleans

  • Battle of Antietam

  • Period: to

    Emancipation Proclamation

  • Homestead Act

  • Penninsula Campaign

  • Battle of Fredricksburg

  • Period: to

    Battle of Gettysburg

  • Siege of Vicksburg

  • Chivington Massacre

  • Abraham Lincoln Re-elected

  • Grant elected

  • Sherman's March to Sea

  • Wades Davis Bill

  • Lincoln Assassinated

  • Grant becomes Commander of the Army of the Potomac

  • Surrender at Appomattox

  • 13th Amendment Ratified

  • Johnson vetoes Freedman's Bureau Bill

  • Ft Laramie Treaty

  • 14th Amendment Ratified

  • Johnson Impeached

  • 15th Amendment Ratified

  • KKK Act Passed

  • Panic of 1853

  • Battle of Little Bighorn

  • Hayes-Tilden Election

  • Reconstruction Ends

  • Posse Comitatus Acte