Unit 5 timeline

  • Fugitive Slave Act

    Fugitive Slave Act
    The Fugitive Slave Act meant that any fugitive slave that was found was to be returned to their masters.
  • Kansas Nebraska ACt

    Kansas Nebraska ACt
    <a href='http://http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/kansas.htm' The Kansas Nebraska act was when it was decided that states would decide for themselves
  • United States Presidential election of 1860

    United States Presidential election of 1860
    Abraham lincoln won 40% of the votes
  • Battle at Fort Sumter

    Battle at Fort Sumter
    Ganeral P.G.T. opened fire to union garrison.
  • The Monitor vs. The Merrimack

    The Monitor vs. The Merrimack
    link the Union ironclad Monitor having fortuitously arrived to initiated the first engagement of ironclads in history
  • The Battle of Shiloh

    The Battle of Shiloh
    link The Battle of Shiloh was the bloodiest battle in american history and it lasted two days. Gen. Johnston was wounded and was replaced with P.G.T.
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation
    link President Abraham Lincol issued the Emancipation Proclamation document.The millitary started accepting black men into the millitary.
  • The Battle of Gettysburg

    The Battle of Gettysburg
    An estimated of 53,000 soldiers were killed in the battle of Gettysburg.
  • The thirteenth amendment

    The thirteenth amendment
    link The was the amendment that abolished slavery.
  • Surrender at Appomattox

    Surrender at Appomattox
    link This was one of the last battles of the civil war.