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On January 1st 1831 William Lloyd Garrison created an anti slavery newspaper.
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The Compromise of 1850 was a set of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which created a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin was originally released as a newspaper article, but people wanted to learn more about it so it was created into a book.
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Signed by president Franklin Peirce the Kansas-Nebraska act created the territories Kansas and Nebraska.
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James Buchanan was the 15th President of the United States. He served immediately before the Civil War. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives and then the Senate.
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Dred Scott tried to sue whites who taken him from the free states into the south for freedom. The judges went against Dred saying he was Black and had no rights.
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John Brown led a raid to Harper's Ferry to try and arm African Americans with weapons to retaliate against white slaveholders. He failed, and some found John Brown a martyr and some thought it was wrong to use violence.
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Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th president of the United States. He was the first republican president ever elected.
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After Lincoln was elected president South Carolina was the first of many states to secede from the union.
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Fort Sumter (FS) was running low on supplies so Abraham Lincoln promised to send supplies but no men. Jefferson Davis ordered troops to attack FS no one was killed only some were injured. The Civil War had begun.
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Led by Gen. Irvin McDowell, the union crossed at Sudley Ford and attacked the Confederate left flank on Matthews Hill. Confederate victory
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Lincoln ordered the emancipation proclamation twice. The first one didn't work, but the second one did.
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The Battle of Gettysburg started on July 1st and ended on July 3rd of 1863. The result was a Union victory.
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Gen. Sherman from the union led troops throughout Georgia rampaging every town to try and show that the Confederates were untrustworthy.
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The Battle of Appomattox Court House was one of the last battles of the American Civil War.
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President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre.
