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The Fugitive Slave Act
The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe is Published
The National Era. Stowe enlisted friends and family to send her information and scoured freedom narratives and anti-slavery newspapers for first hand accounts as she composed her story. -
The Kansas Nebraska Act
Controversial 1854 legislation that opened Kansas and Nebraska to white settlement, repealed the Compromise of 1820, and led oppo nents to form the Republican party. -
The Dred Scott Decision
60 U.S. 393 (1857), was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that African Americans, whether slave or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court,[2][3] and that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States. -
John Brown’s Raid
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia -
Abraham Lincoln is Elected President of the United States
Abraham Lincoln was elected 16th president of the United States in 1860 as the Republican candidate on a platform opposing the expansion of slavery. -
The Attack of Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War -
The First Battle of Bull Run (Manasses)
The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as First Manassas (the name used by Confederate forces), was fought on July 21, 1861, in Prince William County, Virginia, near the city of Manassas. It was the first major land battle of the American Civil War. -
The Merrimack v. Monitor
A naval engagement of the Civil War, fought in 1862 off the coast of Virginia between two ironclad ships, the Union Monitor and the Confederate Virginia. -
The Battle of Antietam
climaxed the first of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's two attempts to carry the war into the North. -
The CSS Hunley Successfully Sinks a Union Ship
H. L. Hunley was a submarine of the Confederate States of America that played a small part in the American Civil War, but a large role in the history of naval warfare
