Leading up to the Civil War

By Kaylabugg02
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

  • The Wilmot Proviso

    The Wilmot Proviso

  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850

  • John Brown's Raid

    John Brown's Raid

    Breaks into the Artillery and tries to arm the slaves for them to fight with him for them to be free. The slaves did not fight with him.
  • South Carolina secedes from the Union

    South Carolina secedes from the Union

    South Carolina votes to withdraw or secede from the Union
  • Confederate States of America are founded as an independent republic

    Confederate States of America are founded as an independent republic

  • Lexington

    Lexington

  • Battle of Antietam

    Battle of Antietam

    Robert E. Lee pushes into Northern territory, fights the Union
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation

  • Freeing enslaved persons in states still in rebellion

    Freeing enslaved persons in states still in rebellion

  • The Second Day Battling in Gettysburg

    The Second Day Battling in Gettysburg

    Union Army holds their line (a stalemate)
  • The Third Day in Gettysburg

    The Third Day in Gettysburg

    Lee makes a mistake (sends General Pickett with 15,000 men to make massive attack; Pickett's Charge- 7,000 Confederates dead in 30 minutes; Failed to break the Union's line)
  • Vicksburg

    Vicksburg

    Union fights to control the Mississippi River
  • The First Day and the First Battle of Gettysburg

    The First Day and the First Battle of Gettysburg

    Confederates push the Union Army way back
  • Battle in Vicksburg ends

    Battle in Vicksburg ends

    The battle is over and the Union won the battle
  • Lincoln was re-elected for President

    Lincoln was re-elected for President

    Lincoln was re-elected for president and put an end to all slavery...PERMANENTLY
  • Sherman's March

    Sherman's March

    William Tecumseh Sherman scorches his way to Atlanta, passing through Georgia, setting all the houses on fire, killing the cattle and burning their food sources to show them what it's like to really be in a war.
  • The Thirteenth Amendment

    The Thirteenth Amendment

    The Thirteenth Amendment was added to the Declaration of Independence.
  • Lincoln's Assassination in Ford's Theater

    Lincoln's Assassination in Ford's Theater

    Lincoln was warned to not go into public unescorted, when John Wilkes Booth came up into the booth he was sitting in, and shot him in the back of the head.
  • The Fifteenth Amendment

    The Fifteenth Amendment

    The right to vote, "shall not be denied on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude"