Timeline: Unit 5 TImeline

Sep 18, 1850

fugitive slave act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugitive_slave_laws
They were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory.

Mar 20, 1852

Uncle Tom's Cabin Published

http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/publication-uncle-toms-cabin
The author had discovered at hand what a slave mother might feel when her child was taken away from her.

May 30, 1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act

http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/kansas.htm
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854.

Nov 6, 1860

Election of 1860

https://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-election-of-1860
United States presidential election of 1860, American presidential, in which Republican Abraham LIncoln defeated Southern Democrat JOhn C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell.

Apr 12, 1861

Battle at Fort Sumter

http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/fort-sumter.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/
General P.G.T. Beauregard, in command of the Confederate forces around Charleston Harbor, opened fire on the Union garrison holding Fort Sumter.

Mar 9, 1862

Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack

https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-the-Monitor-and-Merrimack
Notable as history's first duel between ironclad warships and the beginning of a new era of naval warfare.

Apr 6, 1862

The Battle of Shiloh

http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/shiloh.html
40,000 Confederate soldiers under the command of general Albert Sidney Johnston poured out of the nearby woods and struck a line of Union Soldiers occupying ground near Pittsburgh Landing on the Tennessee River.

Sep 22, 1862

Emancipation Proclamation

http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/emancipation-150/10-facts.html
Is arguably one of the top 10 most important documents in the history of the United States; however, it is also one of the most misunderstood.

May 10, 1863

The battle of Gettysburg

http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/gettysburg.html?tab=facts
Robert E. Lee led his Army of Northern Virginia in its second invasion of the North-the Gettysburg Campaign.

Jan 31, 1865

The thirteenth amendment

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=the+thirteenth+amendment&*
Neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude.

Apr 9, 1865

Surrender at Appomatox

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/appomatx.htm
on April 3, Richmond fell to Union troops as Robert E. Lee led his army of Northern Virginia in retreat to the West pursued by Grant and the army of the Potomac.