Civil War Reconstruction Timeline

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  • the Compromise of 1850

    The Fugitive Slave act

  • Kansas Nebraska Act

    A decade long conflict

  • The Dred Scott Decision

  • Lincoln vs. Douglas argument

  • The Election of 1860

  • By 1860 4,000,000 people were enslaved

  • Southern States secession attempt

  • The Battle of Bull Run

  • Crittenden Plan

  • Lincoln Inauguration

  • Fort Sumter

  • Women were permitted to take a active role in the civil war both on the battle field and at home.

  • The Anaconda Plan

  • The Battle of Shloh

  • The seven days' battles

  • Bloody (Battle of Antietam and Fredericksburg)

  • African Americans begin to join the U.S. military and proved to be valuable soliders for the union.

  • The battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg

  • Period: to

    Emancipation Proclamation

  • Grant and his generals brought full power of the union army to capture the Confederate capital.

  • The Confederacy surrenders at a simple ceremony in Virginia

  • Slavery is abolished

  • Lincolns assassination

  • The start of rebuilding the nation

  • Presidential Reconstruction

  • The Ku Klux Klan

  • Passing the reconstruction acts of 1867

  • The election of General Grant

  • The 15th Amendment

  • Election of 1872

  • End of reconstruction

  • Compromise of 1877