The Civil War

Missouri Compromise

Mar 3, 1820

Missouri enters as a slave state and Maine enters as free 36º 30" dividing line-north.

Compromise of 1850

Jan 29, 1850

California enters as a free state, and the slave trade was abolished in DC. Plus, the Fugitive Slave Law was amended.

Douglas and Lincoln debates

Aug 21, 1850

In this debate both men running for Illinois senator, slavery in West? (No Lincoln) and "pop sovereignty" (Douglas)

Fugitive Slave Law

Sep 18, 1850

This was a part of the compromise of 1850, and it required all slaves be returned to owners even if it is a free state.

Bleeding Kansas

May 30, 1855

Kansas is a series of violent political confrontation in the United States involving anti-slavery.

Dred Scott decision

Mar 6, 1857

There was a Supreme Court case that descides if a state is not free unless its living in a free State. It also explains our property not citizens.

Harpers Ferry

Oct 16, 1859

Abolonists led by John Brown in the Arsenal at Harpers Ferry. They also went to arm their slaves.

Election of 1860

Nov 6, 1860

There were four candidates, Lincoln wins with 180 electoral votes and a few weeks later South Carolina secedes.

Fort Sumter

Apr 12, 1861

This was the bombardment and surrender near Charleston South Carolina, following declarations of succession 7 southern states and abandoned facilities.

Bull Run #1

Jul 21, 1861

This was the first battle of the American Civil War and this surprising victory of the army humilated the north and this help them prepare for a long war.

Theory of total war

Feb 9, 1862

Total war is a war that may include any of the civilian associated resources and in fracture as legitimate military targets, and accept significant civilian or other non combatant casualties as collateral damage as a result of an attack on such targets.

Fort Donelson

Feb 16, 1862

This was the capture of the Confederate fort near the Tennessee and Kentucky border, it opened the Cumberland River which was an important avenue for the invasion of the South.

Battle of Pea Ridge

Mar 6, 1862

This was fought Northwest Arkansas near Garfield and Union forces were led by General Samuel R. Curtis. It was moved from Central Missouri, they also moved the Confederates into northern Arkansas. Also, they wanted to capture Missouri

Battle of Shiloh

Apr 6, 1862

Also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, and it was a very famous major battle and Western Tennessee.

Battle of Antietam

Sep 17, 1862

This was an event in the American Civil War that haunted the Confederate advance on Maryland for the military.

Battle of Fredericksburg

Dec 11, 1862

This battle was fought in Virginia and it was between Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army.

Emancipation Proclamation

Jan 1, 1863

This was an order issued by Abraham Lincoln, bring slaves in all proportions of the United States.

Battle of Chancellorsville

Apr 30, 1863

Chancellorsville was an important battle of the Civil War. It was fought in Virginia in 1863 the South, led by Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, just needed a larger northern army. Jackson was accidentally shot and killed by his own man after the battle.

Battle of Vicksburg

May 18, 1863

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

Gettysburg

Jul 1, 1863

This was the greatest battle of the Civil War and it was fun in south central Pennsylvania. In 1863 the North won and this was the turning point of the war.

Cumberland Gap

Sep 7, 1863

The battle of Cumberland Gap may refer to several events in and around the Cumberland Gap during the American Civil War. The Battle of the Cumberland Gap involves General George W. Morgan capturing the gap for the union.

Sherman's march to the sea

Nov 15, 1864

This was a movement of the Union Army troops of General William Tecumseh Sherman from Atlanta, Georgia, to the Georgia seacoast, with the object of destroying Confederate supplies. The March begin after Sherman captured, evacuated, and burned Atlanta in the fall of 1864.

Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

Apr 9, 1865

This was fought on the morning of April 9th, 1865. It was on the last battles of the American Civil War and it was a final engagement of Confederate Army General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.

Lincoln's assassination and death

Apr 14, 1865

After 10 p.m. on April 14 1865, actor John Wilkes who entered the presidential box at Ford's Theatre in Washington DC shot President Abraham Lincoln.

Kansas- Nebraska Act

May 11, 2015

This states that Kansas and the Northeast will determine to be slave or free, by popular sovereignty or vote of the people and it overturns the Missouri Compromise.

13th Admendment

May 15, 2015

The 13th Admendment abolished slavery. In congress, it was passed by the Senate on April 18th, and by the House of Represnitives on January 31st.