Timeline for Different Events

Fugitive Slave Act

Sep 18, 1850

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fugitive-slave-actsThe Fugitive Slave Act was were if you slave raned away you had a choice of either killing that slave or keeping the slave and punish the slave or give him hard labor.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

May 30, 1854

Act was about when we bought that land and then when we bougth the land we had to fight native americans off the land.
http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/kansas.htmThe Kansas-Nebraska

• Election of 1860

Apr 8, 1860

http://www.ushistory.org/us/32d.aspThe election of 1860 was about when they were electing the new presidenet of united states because the other one got shot and killed in the white house.

Battle at Fort Sumter

Apr 12, 1861

http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/fort-sumter.htmlThe battle of Fort Sumter was when the united states was ask to abandon all the forts and military base in the harbor but when they denied it thw civil war begun.

• The Monitor vs. The Merrimack

Mar 9, 1862

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/389515/Battle-of-the-Monitor-and-MerrimackThe fight between Monitor and Merrimack was in water because they both supposly had powers to rule the ocean so they faught over the ocean and both captains died.

• The Battle of Shiloh

Apr 6, 1862

http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/shiloh.html The war about land in tennesse and texas that american and another side wanted and they so they fought for it and finally after a long war the american war one

The Emancipation Proclamation

Jan 1, 1863

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/This document was about when the slaves became free and they were never to be slavery in that country or anything lke that.

The Battle of Gettysburg

Jul 3, 1863

http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/battle-of-gettysburgThe war begin after another war because the country who lost the first war before this war wanted to get the land they were figthing over.

• The Thirteenth Amendment

Jan 31, 1865

http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.htmlThe thirteenth amendment was made by the congress so that african american could not be a slave anymore or if got arrest still will not be a slavery.

• Surrender at Appomattox

Apr 9, 1865

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/appomatx.htmThe surrender at Appomattox was when the united states was trying to hold a little fort so they can claim the land but when a bigger army came to take the land back they had no choice but to give up.