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Uncle toms cabin is published
Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, is published. The novel sold 300,000 copies within three months -
Republican Party formed
By February 1854, anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the upper midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party. One such meeting, in Wisconsin on March 20, 1854, is generally remembered as the founding meeting of the Republican Party. -
Kansas Nebraska act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed for new territories to decide if they were a free or slave state by popular sovereignty.e -
Dred Scott v. Sanford decision is rendered
The Dred Scott decision of 1857 put a match to the tinderbox of sectional conflict over the future of slavery and helped shape the subsequent presidential election -
john browns raid on harpers ferry
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth -
John brown is hanged
Brown and 21 of his followers attacked and occupied the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry. Their goal was to capture supplies and use them to arm a slave rebellion -
Richmond becomes the capital of the confederacy
Richmond was Confederacy's most industrial city and Virginia was the largest Confederate state, so Richmond was chosen as the permanent capital for the Confederacy -
Abraham Lincoln elected president
In the November 1860 election, Lincoln again faced Douglas, who represented the Northern faction of a heavily divided Democratic Party -
Appointed commander of of the north Virginian army
General Lee took over command of the Army of Northern Virginia, along with his commanders, Lt. General James Longstreet and Lt. General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. -
jefferson davis elected president of the confederacy
Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America. He ran without opposition, and the election simply confirmed the decision that had been made by the Confederate Congress earlier in the year. -
Confederate forces fire on fort Sumter
Americn Civil War begins when Confederates fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. -
South Carolina votes to secede from the us
the first statewide convention on secession in the United States since North Carolina voted to secede from the Union on May 20, 1861 -
Lincoln suspends Habeas corpus
Because of lol the rebellion Lincoln was allowed to suspend the writ of habeas corpus -
First battle of bull run
The First Battle of Bull Run, was the first major land battle of the American Civil War, fought on -
merrimac and the monitor fight of the virginia coast
first meeting in combat of ironclad warships -
Battle of Shiloh
Battle of Shiloh was a battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April in southwestern Tennessee -
Battle of antietam
was fought on September 17, 1862, between Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac, near Sharpsburg, Maryland and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland Campaign. It was the first field army–level engagement in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War to take place on Union soil and at present remains the bloodiest day in America -
Announce emancipation proclamation
that if the rebels did not end the fighting and rejoin the Union by January 1, 1863, all slaves in the rebellious states would be free. -
Battle of Fredericksburg
Fought between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General Ambrose Burnside, as part of the American Civil War. -
Battle of Chancellorsville
The Battle of Chancellorsville was a major battle of the American Civil War, and the principal engagement of the Chancellorsville Campaign -
Battle of Gettysburg
was a Union victory that stopped Confederate General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North. -
confederates surrender at vicksburg
The Confederacy is torn in two when General John C. Pemberton surrenders to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Vicksburg, Mississippi -
New York City draft riots
With the Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil War began to be more about black freedom -
When did Lincoln give his Gettysburg address q
President Abraham Lincoln delivered a short speech at the end of the ceremonies dedicating the battlefield cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania -
Atlanta is captured
The Battle of Atlanta was fought on July 22, 1864, just southeast of Atlanta, Georgia. Union forces commanded by William T. Sherman, -
Lincoln defeats George McCleanin the re-elect
In the American Civil War, incumbent President Abraham Lincoln of the National Union Party defeated the Democratic nominee, former General George B. McClellan. Lincoln's re-election ensured that he would preside over the successful conclusion of the Civil War. -
Sherman begins his march to the sea
military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 until December 21, 1864 -
Richmond falls to the union army
After a long siege, Grant captured Petersburg and Richmond in early April 1865 -
Freeman’s bureau is created
President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill creating the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands -
Lincoln gives his second inaugural address
Lincoln takes his oath at his second inaugural adress -
president lincoln assasination
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth -
robert e. lee surrenders at appomattox
At Appomattox, Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, -
John Wilkes booth is killed
John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln -
Congress passes the 13th amendment
the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States
