Civil War Project Timeline

Compromise of 1850

Jan 29, 1850

Fugitive Slave Law

Sep 18, 1850

Uncle Tom's Cabin Published

Mar 20, 1852

Kansas Nebraska Act Passed

Mar 30, 1854

Bleeding Kansas

Period: Mar 30, 1854 to Jan 29, 1861

Dred Scott Decision

Mar 6, 1857

Lincoln-Douglass Debates

Period: Aug 21, 1858 to Oct 15, 1858

Harper's Ferry

Period: Oct 16, 1858 to Oct 18, 1858

Lincoln Elected

Nov 6, 1860

Battle of Fort Sumter

Apr 12, 1861

1st Battle of Bull Run

Jul 21, 1861

Battle of Antietam

Sep 17, 1862

Emancipation Proclamation

Jan 1, 1863

54th Massachusetts Regiment established

Mar 19, 1863

Battle of Gettysburg

Period: Jul 1, 1863 to Jul 3, 1863

Gettysburg Address

Nov 19, 1863

Andersonville Prison in use

Period: Feb 1, 1864 to Apr 30, 1865

Ulysses S. Grant made General in Chief Union Army

Mar 9, 1864

Robert E. Lee

Jan 31, 1865

Black Codes Passed

Period: Apr 1, 1865 to Dec 31, 1867

Abraham Lincoln Assasinated

Apr 15, 1865

13rh Amendment Passed

Dec 6, 1865

14th Amendment passed

Jul 9, 1868

15th Amendment

Feb 3, 1870