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Uncle Toms Cabin (Book)
Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The book sells 300,000 copies in a year and a million copies in 16 months.This book basically brought about the Civil War. It showed the realitys of what the average slave went through during this time period. Some people were shocked and of course some did not care -
SC Secedes
South Carolina secedes from the Union. South Carolina wanted to continue is southern way of living. Sadly the way they were living involved slavery and not considerig African Americans as people but property. Abraham Lincoln tried to preserve the Union. Laer more states started to secede. -
Fort Sumter
Confederate troops open fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor. When President Abraham Lincoln announced plans to resupply the fort. Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard bombarded the fort. After a 34-hour exchange of artillery fire, Anderson and 86 soldiers surrendered the fort on April 13. -
Bull Run (First Battle)
This is the actual first battle of the Civil War. Union forces led by General Irvin McDowell are repelled by Confederate troops stationed at Manassas Junction, Virginia. The Union dashes hoping for a quick end to the war. But the disorganized Confederate troops succeed. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation. It declares that all slaves in areas still in rebellion are to be free. It also declares his intention of enlisting blacks in the military. But it was limited in many ways. It only applied to the staes that seceded. -
March to the Sea (Some time in February)
Sherman Marches through North and South Carolina. Union General Sherman moved from Georgia through South Carolina, destroying almost everything in his path. They burned through South Carolina to Charelston. Pillaged everything. -
The Freedmen's Bureau (sometime in March)
Established by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War. The Freedmen’s Bureau provided food, housing and medical aid, established schools and offered legal assistance. It also attempted to settle former slaves on Confederate lands confiscated or abandoned during the war. -
Rober E. Lee surrenders
At Appomattox, Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, ending the American Civil War. His troops were harassed constantly by Union cavalry, Lee had no other option. Lee sent a message to Grant announcing his willingness to surrender. -
Abraham Lincoln assassinated
While at a play with his wife, a man by the name of John Wilkes Booth president Lincoln in the back of the head. John Wilkes Booth managed to escape Washington on horse back. Soldiers carried Lincoln to a house across the street. They later anounced that he would die during the night, they could not save him. -
13th Amendment ratified
http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/document.html?doc=9The 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States and provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude ,except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.".
