Civil war timeline

  • Kansas Nebraska Act

    An act that made 2 new territories also made pro slavery and anti slavery flood in and vote
  • John browns raid on Harpers Ferry

    in the early morning of October 17 Brown and his men captured citizens and stopped the federal armory and arsenal
  • election of 1860

    the election Abraham Lincoln was in before the civil war
  • Confederate States of America is formed

    The confederates made states because they liked slavery
  • Fort Sumter

    Fort Sumter was a battle that started the civil war after the confederates took it over
  • Civil War begins

    Confederate army fires upon Fort Sumter
  • Battle of Bull Run

    Was the first official battle of the Civil war
  • Jefferson Davis elected

    Confederate president elected and served for 6 years
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    When Abraham Lincoln declared that all slaves within the rebellious states are free and can come forward
  • Gettysburg Battle

    This was the turning point of the Civil War Union victory
  • Sherman’s March to the Sea

    was to make the civilians in Georgia scared
  • 13th amendment

    was the amendment to abolish slavery
  • Ulysses S. Grant Appomatox courthouse

    this was one of the last battled of the Civil War
  • Abraham Lincoln Assassination

    When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated
  • 14th amendment

    A law that says every person born in the united states has equality under the law
  • 15th amendment

    when people of color could vote

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