Civil War Reconstruction Timeline By Dip2 1850 the Compromise of 1850 The Fugitive Slave act 1854 Kansas Nebraska Act A decade long conflict 1857 The Dred Scott Decision 1858 Lincoln vs. Douglas argument 1860 The Election of 1860 1860 By 1860 4,000,000 people were enslaved 1860 Southern States secession attempt 1861 The Battle of Bull Run 1861 Crittenden Plan 1861 Lincoln Inauguration 1861 Fort Sumter 1861 Women were permitted to take a active role in the civil war both on the battle field and at home. 1861 The Anaconda Plan 1862 The Battle of Shloh 1862 The seven days' battles 1862 Bloody (Battle of Antietam and Fredericksburg) 1863 African Americans begin to join the U.S. military and proved to be valuable soliders for the union. 1863 The battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg Period: 1863 to 1863 Emancipation Proclamation 1864 Grant and his generals brought full power of the union army to capture the Confederate capital. 1865 The Confederacy surrenders at a simple ceremony in Virginia 1865 Slavery is abolished 1865 Lincolns assassination 1865 The start of rebuilding the nation 1865 Presidential Reconstruction 1866 The Ku Klux Klan 1867 Passing the reconstruction acts of 1867 1868 The election of General Grant 1868 The 15th Amendment 1872 Election of 1872 1876 End of reconstruction 1877 Compromise of 1877