Civil War timeline

  • Compromise of 1850

    Diverts War and was a set of 5 bills which defused a four-year of confrontation between the free states of the North and slave states of the South regarding the state of the territories acquired during the Mexican-American War
  • Dred Scott case

    Dred Scott decision states that all slaves are property
  • Linclon was Elected

    Linclon recived 40% of the popular vote in the and when he was electedhis main goal was to save the union
  • South Carolina Seceds from the Union

    First State that triggers many south states to secede
  • Fort Sumter Attacked

    Attacked by the Confederates and Union Soldiers are forced to retreat
  • First Battle Of Bull Run

    Confederate Win
  • Confederate states created

    The seceded states form the Confederate States of America
  • Battle of Shiloh

    A important battle in the civil war
  • Seven Days Battle

    Confederate Victory
  • Second Battle Of Bull Run

    Confederate Vicotory
  • Battle of Antietam

    Bloodist day of the Civil War more than 20,000 casualties on both sides
    Union Victory
  • Battle of Fredricksburg

    Confederates won this battle
  • Emancipation Proclomation

    By the summer of 1862 Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclomation after the battle of Antietam
  • West Virginia Becones a state

    Some Virgina citizens did not want to secede so the state split and west virgina did get into the union
  • Battle of Gettysburg

    Most famous and important battle in the civil war
  • Draft Riots

    Violent riots agianst the forced draft in New York
  • Wade-Davis Bill

    A very harsh bill
  • 13th Amendent

    Formally abolished slavery
  • Freedmanś Bureau

    Helped Freed African Americans making the transition to freedom
  • Lincoln was assinated

    Linclon was assinated