Important events before and during civil war

Missouri Compromise is created

Mar 3, 1820

made missouri free state and there was 11 frre states and 10 slave states

Compromise of 1850 is created

Jan 29, 1850

was a series of bills that wanted to resolve the territorial and slavery controversies

Fugitive Slave Act is passed

Sep 18, 1850

Declared that all runaway slaves were to be returned home

Uncle Tom's Cabin is published

Mar 20, 1852

Anti-Slavery novel

Kansas-Nebraska Act is signed into law

May 30, 1854

Created territories of Kansas and Nebraska

Dred Scott decision in the supreme court

Mar 6, 1857

Declared that his family was free

John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry

Oct 16, 1859

Planned an armed slave rvolt

South Carolina secedes from the United States

Dec 20, 1860

First state to secede

Abraham Lincoln takes office

Mar 4, 1861

Battle at Fort Sumter

Apr 12, 1861

Started American Civil war

1st Battle of Bull Run

Jul 21, 1861

1st major land battle of the civil war

Battle of Shiloh

Apr 6, 1862

Confederates won first day but defeated the second

Battle of Antietam

Sep 17, 1862

Bloodiest single day battle in American History

Emancipation Proclamation goes into effect

Jan 1, 1863

Claimed all slaves to be free

Battle of Vicksburg

May 18, 1863

was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War.

Battle of Gettysburg

Jul 1, 1863

Battle with the laargest number of casualties in the civil war

Sherman's March to the Sea

Nov 16, 1864

purpouse to frighten Georgia into not siding with confederates

Reconstruction Begins

Apr 9, 1865

The process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the Union

Confederacy Surrenders at Appomattox

Apr 9, 1865

one of the last battles of the civil war

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated

Apr 14, 1865

Shot in a theater