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Civil War Timeline

By Hadley

  • The Kansas Nebraska Act

    The Kansas Nebraska Act
    This was the act to make two new territories. And allowed for popular sovereignty.

  • Harriet Tubman and the underground railroad

    Harriet Tubman and the underground railroad
    Harriet Tubman was an escaped slave who became the conductor on the underground railroad.

  • John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry

    John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry
    This was the plan to establish independence. And to free the slaves of Maryland and Virginia .

  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860
    This was the election held for the south to help with slavery.

  • Confederate States of America is formed

    Confederate States of America is formed
    11 states from the US in 1860 followed by the election of Lincoln.

  • Fort Sumter

    Fort Sumter
    This was where the firsts shots of civil war happened. One of the last standing forts.

  • Civil War Begins

    Civil War Begins
    Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter on the harbor to start the civil war.

  • Battle of Bull Run

    Battle of Bull Run
    This is wear the unions clashed among Manassas Junction, Virginia.

  • Jefferson Davis elected

    Jefferson Davis elected
    He was elected president of the Confederate States of America.

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation
    This was the proclamation that all people where held as slaves.

  • Gettysburg Battle

    Gettysburg Battle
    This war was fought in the town Gettysburg. The bloodiest battle of the civil war 59000 causalities.

  • Sherman’s March to the Sea

    Sherman’s March to the Sea
    Sea spanned some 285 miles. There armies had more than 1,300 casualties.

  • Ulysses S. Grant Appomatox courthouse

    Ulysses S. Grant Appomatox courthouse
    The surrendered army of northern Virginia. This sets the stage of the end of the civil war.

  • Abraham Lincoln Assassination

    Abraham Lincoln Assassination
    Lees surrender at Appomattox on April 9th. There were Southern sympathizers who believed that the confederacy could be restored.

  • 13th amendment

    13th amendment
    This says, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." sorce: https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/13th-amendment#:~:text=The%2013th%20Amendment%20to%20the%20United%20States%20Constitution%20provides%20that,place%20subject%20to%20their%20jurisdiction.%22

  • 14th amendment

    14th amendment
    no state shall make or enforce laws.

  • 15th amendment

    15th amendment
    This granted African American men the right to vote.