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Fugitive Slave Act
Fugitive Slave ActThis "Law" or act was passed by the United States Congress as a part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin Published
Uncle Tom's CabinUncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. According to Will Kaufman it helped to lay out the groundwork for the Civil War. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas-Nebraska ActThis act was passed by the U.S. Congress. This act states that people in the Kansas and Nebraska areas get to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. It served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude. -
Election of 1860
Election of 1860Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected president Tuesday, Nov. 6th. 1860, and was served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War. -
Battle at Fort Sumter
Battle of Fort SumterThis battle lasted from April 12th to April 14th, in 1861. In was the surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War. Following declarations of succession by seven Southern States, South Carolina demanded that the U.S Army abandon its facilities in Charleston Harbor. -
The Monitor Vs The Merrimack
The Battle of Hampton Roads The Battle of Monitor and Merrimack, A.K.A The Battle of Hampton Roads was known as the first duel between warships. It is the most famous naval battle of the American Civil War, putting the nation's first ironclad ships against each other. -
The Battle of Shiloh
The Battle of ShilohThe Battle of Shiloh, A.K.A. Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6th through April 7th, in Southwestern Tennessee. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation ProclamationThis was a Presidental Proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln, it changed the federal legal status of more than 3 million enslaved people in the area of the South from "Slave" to "Free". -
The Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of GettysburgThis battle was fought from July 1st to the 3rd, is often thought of as the war's turning point. It was fought to try and end Gen. Robert E. Lee's plan to invade North. Lee tried again for a second time to invade North and this time it was the Gettysburg Campaign. -
Surrender at Appomattox
Surrender at AppomattoxThis battle that was fought in the morning was one of the last battles of the American Civil War. It was the final engagement of Confederate Army general Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, before it surrendered, to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. -
Assassination of President Lincoln
Assassination of President Abraham LincolnPresident Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre watching a play in Washington D.C. by John Wikes Booth. He was rushed across the street to be treated but later died in bed. This was when the Amercan Civil War was coming to a stop. -
The Thirteenth Amendment
Slavery is abolishedThe Thirteenth Amendment was passed by Congress on December 6th, 1865. This amendment abolished slavery and is said "Neither slavery, nor involutary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted shall exisit within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Therefore slavery was gone.
