Civil War Events

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  • Comprise of 1850

    Fugtive Slave Act was one of the 5 laws.

  • Kansas Nebraska Act

    Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska which resulted in anit slavery clashes.

  • Bleeding Kansas

    Violent anti slavey clashes.

  • Dred Scott Decision

    Ruled that slaves were not protected by constitution

  • Lincoln Douglas Debates

    Sereis of debates betrween Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln

  • Harpers Ferry

    John Browns raid made South feel threatened

  • Lincolns Election

    Caused Southern states succede from the union adn started Civil War

  • Fort Sumter

    First attack on the north signifying the start of the war.

  • Bull Run

    First major battle of Civil War

  • Antietam

    First major battle in Union soil

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Abraham proclamimed that all slaves were free

  • Gettysburg Address

    Best know speech of all time. Delivered by Lincoln near the end of civil war.

  • Andersonville Prison

    Confederate prison were Union POWs were kept.

  • Surrender at Appottamox Courthouse

    Confederate general surrendered to UNion genereal to signal wars end.

  • Assination of Lincoln

    John WIlkes both assinated Lincoln in a theater in Washington DC