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Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad lasted from 1850-1860 it formed in the 1700 it ran into the North to the free states and Canada and it reached it's height. -
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Succesion of Southern States
The first state to secede was Alabama followed by Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas. Later, closer to Lincoln's election, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia seceded. -
Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29th 1850 that had a crisis between North and South with this event as the fugitive Slave Act was amended the slave trade in Washington DC. -
"Bleeding Kansas"
Bleeding Kansas was one of the bloodiest wars it also was on the border it was from 1854-1861 it was deciding if Kansas was going to get slavery or not in Kansas it also had an impact on slavery it was located in Kansas and Missouri. -
A battle map of the Civil War
Here is a battle map of the civil war. The movements and battle victories for the south are in red and the same for the North. -
Battle At Bull Run
This was the first major land battle of the armies in Virginia. On July 16, 1861, the untried Union Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell marched from Washington against the Confederate army, which was drawn up behind Bull Run beyond Centreville. https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/first-battle-of-bull-run -
Battle of Shiloh
The morning of April 6th, 1862 started out for the confederates with a surprise attack on the Union at the Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. Although the Confederates got the drop on the union troops, the union very quickly established a battle line on a sunken road. Multiple attacks against this battle line is how the Union won the battle driving the Confederate forces out of the camp ending on April 7, 1862. The causalities for the Confederates were 10,669 and the union had 13,047. -
Seven Days' Battle
Seven days battle was 6 battles in seven days lasted a whole week from June 25th to July 1st near Richmond Virginia the confederate won the battles . -
Battle of Antietam
The battle of Antietam was the bloodiest day of the entire civil war consisting of 3 major attacks throughout the day. The three attacks spread from Miller's Cornfield all the way to Antietam Creek in Maryland. The battle ended in a draw, both sides to bloodied to advanced, and with the withdrawal of Confederate forces. The Confederate withdrawal is what President Lincoln needed to deliver the Emancipation .https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/battle-of-antietam -
Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22nd, 1862. It stipulated that if the Southern states did not cease their rebellion by January 1st, 1863, then Proclamation would go into effect. -
Reconstruction Era
The cause of this happening was the Civil war it was located in the south it was organized by the southern states this whole event lasted 13 years. https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/reconstruction -
Battle of Vicksburg
In the Battle of Vicksburg was the final military major action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the Civil war the union had took victory in the war it took place during the summer of 1863.they all were trying to trap a confederate army under L.T general John Pemberton. -
Battle of Gettysburg/Gettysburg Address
Both Union and Confederate forces converged into Pennsylvania to stop the other from taking the land. With the Confederates on the offense seeking out peace in Virginia to supply Gen. Robert E. Lee's army. Both army's collided at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The union was victorious but suffered heavy casualties. Four month's later Lincoln would deliver the Gettysburg Address at the Soldiers' National Cemetery at the site of the battle, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The battled ended on July 3. -
Lincoln's Assassination
On the year of 1865 in April was the final month of Abraham Lincoln he got assassinated by John Wilkes Booth this has lead up to his 2nd year term as US president Lincoln was the 16th president of the united states. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, is published. The novel sold 300,000 copies within three months and was so widely read that when President Abraham Lincoln met Stowe in 1862, he reportedly said, “So this is the little lady who made this big war.”
