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William Lloyd Garrison invented the Liberator
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Senator Henry Clay introduced series of resolutions in attempt to seek a crisis between the North and South.
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It was a anti slavery book it "helped lay the groundwork for Civil War".
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The most significant event leading to the Civil War.
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In April 1861 a month after Buchanan left office the Civil War began.
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He ruled that a slave who had resided in a free state or territory was not there by entitled to his freedom.
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Brown had hopes that the local slave population would join the raid and through the raid’s success weapons would be supplied to slaves and freedom fighters throughout the country
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In the November 1860 election, Lincoln again faced Douglas, who represented the Northern faction of a heavily divided Democratic Party, as well as Breckinridge and Bell.
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State by state, conventions were held, and the confederacy was formed.
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At 2:30 pm on April 13 Major Robert Anderson, garrison commander, surrendered the fort and was evacuated the next day.
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On July 21, 1861, Union and Confederate armies clashed near Manassas Junction, Virginia, in the first major land battle of the American Civil War.
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The proclamation declared "that all people held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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The largest military conflict in North American history begins this day when Union and Confederate forces collide at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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On this day in 1864, Union General William T. Sherman begins his expedition across Georgia by torching the industrial section of Atlanta and pulling away from his supply lines.
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Harried mercilessly by Federal troops and continually cut off from turning south, Lee headed west, eventually arriving in Appomattox County on April 8.
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On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C.
