The Civil War

By MZeiders17

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

  • 1,500 New Mexican Indians & Mexicans defeated by US Col Price

  • 1st US telegraph company established in Maryland

  • Battle of Buena Vista: US troops beat Mexican army

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Fugitive Slave Law

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Dred Scott Decision

  • First transatlantic cable is completed

  • Lincoln/Douglas Debates

  • First commercial oil well is drilled

  • John Brown @ Harper's Ferry

  • John Brown attacks Harpers Ferry Virginia Armory

  • Election of Lincoln

  • Crittenden Compromise

  • Secession of South Carolina

  • Period: to

    Civil War time-span

  • Attack on Fort Sumter

  • Battle of Bull Run pt. I

  • Richard Gatling patents the machine gun

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • The Vicksburg Campaign

  • Stonewall Jackson dies

  • The Battle of Chancellorsville

  • Battle of Brandy Station

  • The Gettysburg Campaign

  • The Fall of the Confederacy

  • Sherman Marches through North and South Carolina

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • The Assassination of President Lincoln