The Civil War

By eroark17

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Fugitive Slave Law

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Dred Scott Decision

  • Lincoln/Douglas Debate

  • John Brown at Harpers Ferry

  • Election of Lincoln

  • Abraham Lincoln is elected sixteenth president of the United States

  • South Carolina Secedes

  • South Carolina secedes from the Union.

  • The southern states that seceded create a government at Montgomery, Alabama, and the Confederate States of America are formed

  • Southern forces fire upon Fort Sumter

  • Battle of Big Bethel

  • Battle of Bull run

  • Lexington, Missouri falls to Confederate forces under Sterling Price.

  • Surrender of Fort Henry, Tennessee

  • Second Battle of Bull Run

  • Battle of Antietam

  • Lee defeats Burnside and Army of the Potomac at Fredericksburg, VA

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Lee defeats Joseph Hooker at Chancellorsville, VA

  • Siege of Vicksburg

  • Battle of Gettysburg

  • Chattanooga

  • Abraham Lincoln is reelected president of the United States

  • Shermans March to the Sea

  • Davis and his government set fire to capital building to keep Union from using it and flee

  • Battle of Appomattox Court House

  • John Wilkes Caught