Civil war

  • Fugitive slavery act

    Fugitive slavery act
    If the slave is trying to escape you and you are hiding them you would have to go to jail.
  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas
    The north ans south are fighting if it should be a free state.
  • seceding from the union

    seceding from the union
    When South Carolina is not part of the United States
  • Confederate States of America

    Confederate States of America
    When the Confederate founded their independent republic
  • Battle of Shiloh

    Battle of Shiloh
    Confederates launch a surprise attack on Grant
  • Battle of Bull Run

    Battle of Bull Run
    The first major battle and a lot of people die
  • Battle of Antietam

    Battle of Antietam
    Lee pushes into the Northern territory, fights union general George McClellan
  • Vicksburg Battle

    Vicksburg Battle
    The union fights to control Mississippi
  • Thirteen amendment

    Thirteen amendment
    Bans slavery forever in the United States
  • Freedman's Bureau

    Freedman's Bureau
    Feeding and clothing war refuges and help African American
  • Fords theater

    Fords theater
    Lincoln is shot and killed
  • Military reconstruction act

    Military reconstruction act
    divide five military districts
  • Ulysses S.Grant president

    Ulysses S.Grant president
    He becomes president
  • fourteenth amendments

    fourteenth amendments
    grants citizenship to all and equal protective rights
  • fifteenths amendments

    fifteenths amendments
    The right to vote for black people
  • panic of 1878

    panic of 1878
    Everyone is bankrupt
  • Civil rights act

    Civil rights act
    Grants citizenship to all people born the united states
  • Sherman's March

    Sherman's March
    William Sherman scorches his way to Atlanta