civil war time line

  • first issue of the libertor

    first issue of the libertor

    it was abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knap
  • compromise of 1850

    compromise of 1850

    Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions in an attempt to seek a compromise
  • uncle Toms cabin published

    uncle Toms cabin published

    is a antislavery novel
  • kansas nebraska act

    kansas nebraska act

    this allowed each territory to decide the issue of slavery
  • Dred Scott decision

    Dred Scott decision

    The case was about a slave that free state
  • James Buchanan

    James Buchanan

    he was the 15th president
  • john browns raid

    john browns raid

    A abolitionist group went to get weapons and attacked
  • Abe Lincoln

    Abe Lincoln

    He was the 16th president of the U.S.
  • Carolina secedes

    Carolina secedes

    Although Lincoln's election was fair, it nonetheless pushed the Deep South toward secession.
  • Battle of fort sumter

    Battle of fort sumter

    The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment and surrendered
  • battle of bull run

    battle of bull run

    Fought in Virginia near Washington, D.C. The surprising victory of the Confederate army humiliated the North and forced it to prepare for a long war
  • emaciation proclamation

    emaciation proclamation

    President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war.
  • battle of gettysberg

    battle of gettysberg

    Fought in south-central Pennsylvania in 1863. It ended in a major victory for the North and is usually considered the turning point of the war.
  • surrender at appomattox

    surrender at appomattox

    A town of south-central Virginia east of Lynchburg. Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union general Ulysses S.
  • Sherman's march to then sea

    Sherman's march to then sea

    American Civil War, conducted through Georgia Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh