Unit 5 Timeline

Fugitive Slave Act

Sep 18, 1850

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fugitive-slave-actsThe Fugitive Slave act were laws that allowed people to capture and return runaway slaves. The Fugitive Slave Acts were among the most controversial laws of the early 19th century.

Uncle Tom's Cabin Published

Mar 20, 1852

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/uncle-toms-cabin-is-published
Uncle Tom's Cabin is a novel about anti-slavery. This novel was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe's. Stowe encountered fugitve slaves and the Underground Railroad, After this she wrote the novel. The book established Stowe's reputation as a woman of letters. She later went to England where she was welcomed as a literary hero.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

May 30, 1854

http://www.ushistory.org/us/index.asp
The Kansas Nebraska Act was a bill that mandated popular sovereignty allowing settlers of a territory to decide wheter slavery would be allowed within a new states boarders. This bill led to disagreements which then led to the Bleeding kansas.

Election of 1860

Nov 6, 1860

http://www.ushistory.org/us/32d.aspThe election of 1860 was the presidential election of 1860. This election was the cause of the American Civil War.

Battle at Fort Sumter

Apr 12, 1861

http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/fort-sumter.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/
The Battle at Fort Sumter was the first battle of the American Civil War. The battle took place in Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, South Caroliona. 80 Union and 500 Confederate soldiers fought in the battle.

The Monitor vs. The Merrimack

Mar 9, 1862

http://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-the-Monitor-and-Merrimack
The Monitor vs. The Merrimack was a battle during the American Civil War. This battle was history's first duel between ironclad warships. The engagement know as the Battle of Hampton Roadss was apart of a Confederate effort to break the Unon Blockade of southern ports.

The battle of Shiloh

Apr 6, 1862

http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/shiloh.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/The Battle of Shiloh was a battle where 40,000 confederate soliders came out of the woods and struck a line of Union soldiers occupying groud near Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River.

The Emancipation Proclamation

Sep 22, 1862

https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/
The Emancipation Proclamation was when President Abraham Lincoln declared that on January 1, 1863 all slaves in the rebellious states shall be then free.

The Battle of Gettysburg

Jul 1, 1863

http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/gettysburg.html
The Battke of Gettysburg was fought from July 1 to July 3. this battle is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. 3,000 Union and 60,000 confederate soldiers were apart of this battle.

The Thirteenth Amendment

Jan 31, 1865

https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.html
The thirteenth amendment was the amendment that offically ended the instiution of slavery. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the Untied States or any place subjevt to their jurisdiction." These words were offically noted in the Constitution.

Surrender at Appomattox

Apr 9, 1865

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/appomatx.htmThe Surrender at Appomattox was a battle where 28,000 troops surrendered in the front parlor of Wilmer McLean's home in Appomattox Court House, Virginia.

Assassination of President Lincoln

Apr 15, 1865

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/civil/jb_civil_lincoln_1.html
On April 15, 1865 John Wilkes Booth a famous actor shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. The attack was five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia.