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The Liberator goes into print
William Lloyd Garrison wrote the Liberator in 1831. The Liberator was an abolitionist newspaper. William Lloyd Garrison was one of the first white abolitionist to take a stand on slavery. -
Compromise of 1850 Passed
The Compromise of 1850 consisted of laws admitting California as a free state, creating Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of slavery in each to be determined by popular sovereignty, settling a Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute in the former’s favor, ending the slave trade in Washington, D.C. and making it easier for southerners to recover fugitive slaves. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin is Published
Uncle Tom's cabin is a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was Published on May 20, 1852. It sold 300,000 copies within three months. -
Kansas Nebraska Act.
The Kansas Nebraska Act was an 1854 bill that allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders. -
James Buchanan sworn into Office
James Buchanan , America’s 15th president, was in office from 1857 to 1861. He was elected to the White House in 1856. As president, he tried to maintain peace between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the government, but tensions only escalated. -
Dred Scott decision
On May 6 in 1857, the United States Supreme Court issues a decision in the Dred Scott case, confirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories. -
John Browns raid
John Browns was intended to be the first stage in an elaborate plan to establish an independent stronghold of freed slaves in the mountains of Maryland and Virginia. Brown was captured during the raid and later convicted of treason and hanged, but the raid inflamed white Southern fears of slave rebellions and increased the mounting tension between Northern and Southern states before the American Civil War -
LIncoln elected
On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Douglas, Breckinridge, and Bell. He was the first president from the Republican Party. -
South Carolina secedes
South Carolina was the first state to secede from the union followed by 10 others. those ones being Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army. It took place on -
Battle of Bull Run
The Battle of Bull Run took place on July 21, 1871 near the town of Manassas. it began when about 35,000 union troops marched from Washington D.C. to strike the confederate force of about 20,000 troops along a small river known as Bull Run. After hours of fighting the union retreated back toward Washington D.C. -
Battle of Shiloh
Also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, the Battle of Shiloh took place from April 6 to April 7, 1862, and was one of the major early engagements of the American Civil War. The battle began when the Confederates launched a surprise attack on Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant.the Confederates were unable to hold their positions and were forced back,resulting in a Union victory. -
Vicksburg Surrenders
The Confederacy is torn in two when General John C. Pemberton surrenders to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Vicksburg, Mississippi. The Vicksburg campaign was one of the most successful of the war. Although Grant’s first attempt to take the city failed in 1862-63, he renewed his efforts. Admiral David Porter had run his flotilla past the Vicksburg defenses in early May as Grant marched his army down the river opposite Vicksburg, crossed back to Mississippi, and drove toward Jackson. -
Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam, also called the Battle of Sharpsburg, occurred September 22, 1862, at Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland. Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia against Union General George McClellan’s Army of the Potomac and was the culmination of Lee’s attempt to invade the north. The battle’s outcome would be vital to shaping America’s future, and it remains the deadliest one-day battle in all American military history. -
Battle of Fredricksburg
The Battle of Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862, involved nearly 200,000 combatants, the largest concentration of troops in any Civil War battle. Ambrose Burnside, the newly appointed commander of the Army of the Potomac, had ordered his more than 120,000 troops to cross the Rappahannock River, where they made a two-pronged attack on the right and left flanks of Robert E. Lee’s 80,000-strong Army of Northern Virginia at Fredericksburg. -
Emancipation Proclimation
On September 22, soon after the Union victory at Antietam, he issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that as of January 1, 1863, all slaves in the rebellious states would be free. -
Battle of Chacellorsville
On April 30th to may 6th 1863 facing an enemy force nearly twice the size of his own, Lee daringly split his troops in two, confronting and surprising Union Gen. Joseph Hooker. Though Hooker still held numerical superiority, he did not press this advantage, instead falling back to defensive positions. When Lee once again split his forces and attacked, Hooker was forced to retreat across the Rappahannock River. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg, fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863, is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. After a great victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville, General Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania in late June 1863. On July 1, the advancing Confederates clashed with the Union’s Army of the Potomac, commanded by General George G. Meade, at the crossroads town of Gettysburg. -
Shermans march to sea
From November 15 until December 21, 1864, Union General William T. Sherman led some 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. The purpose of this “March to the Sea” was to frighten Georgia’s civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause. -
South Surrenders at
On April 9, 1865, near the town of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. Days earlier, Lee had abandoned the Confederate capital of Richmond and the city of Petersburg.
