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Civil War Timeline

  • Harriet Tubman and the Underground railroad

    Harriet Tubman and the Underground railroad

    Harriet Tubman was one of the main leaders of the underground railroad, which freed slaves and brought them to canada.
  • Kansas Nebraska Act

    Kansas Nebraska Act

    A vast area of land that would become Kansas, Nebraska, Montana and the Dakotas
  • John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry

    John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry

    John Brown road troops to Harpers ferry in an attempt to start an armed revolt of enslaved people and destroy the institution of slavery.
  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860

    Abraham Lincoln Won the election
  • Confederate States of America is formed

    Confederate States of America is formed

    The states that broke away from the U.S, because they did not like the slavery laws.
  • Fort Sumter

    Fort Sumter

    Confederate States of America attacked the United States military garrison at Fort Sumter, South Carolina. Less than two days later, the fort surrendered.
  • Civil War Begins

    Civil War Begins

    The Confederates break off from the U.S and create a new country and go to war with the U.S.
  • Battle of Bull Run

    Battle of Bull Run

    Big war between the North and the South, the north thought it was going to be a easy fight, but they were proven wrong.
  • Jefferson Davis elected

    Jefferson Davis elected

    Jefferson Davis was elected President for the Confederate states.
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation

    The proclamation declared that all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states are, and henceforward shall be free.
  • Gettysburg battle

    Gettysburg battle

    It was a really important war for the north, and a turning point for them.
  • Sherman's March to Sea

    Sherman's March to Sea

    The purpose of Sherman's March to the Sea was to frighten Georgia's civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause.
  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment

    The Amendment that Abolished slavery in the U.S.
  • Ulysses S. Grant Appomatox courthouse

    Ulysses S. Grant Appomatox courthouse

    This was the courthouse that Ulysses S. Grant and his troops surrounded Robert E. Lee and forced him to surrender.
  • Abraham Lincoln Assassination

    Abraham Lincoln Assassination

    People killed Abraham because they were upset about the war and the outcome for slavery.
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment

    No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, or deprive the rights of a citizen.
  • 15th  Amendment

    15th Amendment

    Cannot take away the black and other races rights