Timeline

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  • Fugitive Slave Act

    Fugitive Slave Act
    The Fugitive Slave Act was part of the group of laws referred to as the "Compromise of 1850." It allowed slave owners to bring back there slaves if they ran away to the North.

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act
    The Kansas-Nebraska Act created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement.

  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860
    The election of 1860 was the 19th quadrennial presidental election. The presidental nominees were Abraham Lincoln, John C. Breckinridge, John Bell. and Stephen A. Douglas.

  • Battle of Fort Sumter

    Battle of Fort Sumter
    The Battel of Fort Sumter started the American Civil War. The Battle of Fort Sumter lasted 2 days.

  • The Monitor vs. The Merrimack

    The Monitor vs. The Merrimack
    The Monitor vs. The Merrimack was a naval engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, a harbour at the mouth of the James River, notable as history’s first duel between ironclad warships and the beginning of a new era of naval warfare.

  • The Battle of Shiloh

    The Battle of Shiloh
    Albert Sidney Johnston poured out of the nearby woods and struck a line of Union soldiers occupying ground near Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. The overpowering Confederate offensive drove the unprepared Federal forces from their camps and threatened to overwhelm Ulysses S. Grant’s entire command.

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

    The Emancipation Proclamation
    The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, as a war measure during the American Civil War, directed to all of the areas in rebellion and all segments of the executive branch of the United States.

  • The Battle of Gettysburg

    The Battle of Gettysburg
    The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War.

  • The Thirteenth Amendment

    The Thirteenth Amendment
    The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.

  • The surrender of Appotmattox

    The surrender of Appotmattox
    The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War.