slavery and civil war timeline

  • us declares independence

  • Louisiana purchase

  • Missouri compromise

  • underground railroad

  • trail of tears

  • war with Mexico

  • Harriet Tubman escapes

  • fugitive slave law

  • Dred Scott loses case

  • Lincoln vs Douglas debates

  • the picnic battle of bull run

  • Lincoln elected president

  • South Carolina secedes

  • eleven southern states secede

  • emancipation proclamation

    emancipation proclamation

  • Robert E Lee surrenders

    Robert E Lee surrenders

  • last slaves freed in texas

    last slaves freed in texas

  • Shermans march to the sea

    Shermans march to the sea