Civil War timeline

  • The Missouri compromise

    It made tension go up between people that have slaves and people that are against it.
  • Mexican War

    Texas wanted independence and started fighting with mexcio and it effected efforts to abolish slavery.
  • Compromise of 1850

    A four year meeting of the slave states and the free states.
  • Fugitive slave act of 1850

    It made it where if a slave escaped it had to returened to its master no matter what.
  • Kansas-Nebraska act

    It was where settelers of a territory got to decide if slaves where allowed or not
  • Bleeding Kansas

    It was a war between anti-slavery and pro slavery in Kansas and missouri.
  • Bloody sumner

    Sumner went to far about the slavery thing and brooks beat him with a cane.
  • Dred scott decision

    The suprem court said slave owners have rights to take their slaves to the western territories
  • John Brown's raid on harpers ferry

    John Brown try to start a armed slavery revolt
  • South Carolina secedes from Union

    South Carolina and 6 other states seceded from the union
  • Election of 1860

    Southern democrats thought Douglas was a traitor for letting territories choose to not have slaves
  • Battle of Fort Sumter

    This battle started the civil war when Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard wanted surrender and Major Anderson refused.
  • The Union’s ‘Anaconda Plan’

    This plan was made to prevent war
  • Battle of Antietam

    This was the first American civil war fought on northern soil
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Slaves became free
  • Battle of Gettysburg

    It is considered the most important fight in the American civil war
  • Sherman’s March

    General William T. Sherman led 60,000 from the Atlanta to Georgia and the soliders did not destroy any towns but did take livestock
  • Confederate Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

    General Robert E. Lee surrenderd 28,000 troops to the union and he was forced to surrender finally ending four years of bloody sectional conflict

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