Civil War Timeline

By Mattd2004

  • Missouri comprimise

    Admitted missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state

  • Fugitive slave act

    Penalized officials who didn't arrest run away slaves

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act (Bleeding Kansas)

    people in these states voted if they were free or slave state. Kansas became a war zone
  • Period: to

    Civil war

  • fort wagner raided

    54th regiment attacks fort wagner and is wiped out. The 54th regiment is a regiment of all slaves

  • Emancipation proclimation

    this freed the slaves in southern states that tried to leave the union

  • Battle of gettysburg

    turning point of the war

  • Abraham Lincoln elected

  • Robert E. Lee surrenders

    North wins after the surrender

  • Abraham lincon assasinated

    John Wilkes Booth assassinated president Abraham Lincon