Civil War Timeline

  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850

    Both proslavery and antislavery and let California be admitted as a free state.
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act

    People voted for popular sovereignty in the new territories
  • Radical republicans

    Radical republicans

    They divided the country, required states to let African American men to vote and said must ratify the 14th amendment
  • Battle at Fredericksburg

    Battle at Fredericksburg

    Confederates win and the South looks too tough to beat
  • Battle at Chancelloersville

    Battle at Chancelloersville

    Confederates won and Stonewall Jackson gets killed
  • Battle at Gettysburg

    Battle at Gettysburg

    Union won and general Lee gets pushed back to Virginia
  • Gettysburg Adress

    Gettysburg Adress

    Lincoln gave a speech to tell the people the focus needs to be building America
  • Battle at Vicksburg

    Battle at Vicksburg

    Union win and they gained control of the Mississippi River
  • Battle at Atlanta

    Battle at Atlanta

    Union wins and the Confederates major city is destroyed
  • Battle at Richmond/Appomattox Court House

    Battle at Richmond/Appomattox Court House

    Union wins and the confederates surrender. Last battle of the civil war.
  • 13th amendment

    13th amendment

    The 13th amendment abolished slavery and the south tried to do everything to get around it
  • President Andrew Johnson

    President Andrew Johnson

    Johnson gets elected as president but was later charged for impeachment
  • Lincoln gets killed

    Lincoln gets killed

    Lincoln gets killed by John Wilkes Booth
  • 14th amendment

    14th amendment

    Equal protection under the law and citizen ship to everyone born in the states
  • 15th amendment

    15th amendment

    Gave African Americans males the right to vote