Unit 5 timeline

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  • Fugitive slave act

    Fugitive slave act

    Part of the Compromise between Southern slave holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.
  • Uncle Toms Cabin published

    Uncle Toms Cabin published

    Uncle Toms Cabin is a non-slavery novel by an American author Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Kansas-Nebraska act

    Kansas-Nebraska act

    Allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders
  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860

    Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C., Stephen A., and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell.
  • Battle at Fort Sumter

    Battle at Fort Sumter

    First battle of the American Civil war
  • The Monitor vs. The Merrimack

    The Monitor vs. The Merrimack

    First duel between ironclad warships and the begging of a new era of naval warfare
  • The battle of Shiloh

    The battle of Shiloh

    A major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil war
  • The Emancipation Proclamation

    The Emancipation Proclamation

    Presidential proclamation and executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln
  • The battle of Gettysburg

    The battle of Gettysburg

    Fought by the Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War.
  • The 13 Amendments

    The 13 Amendments

    "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been dully convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
  • Surrender of Appomattox

    Surrender of Appomattox

    One of the last battles of the American Civil War
  • Assassination of Lincoln

    Assassination of Lincoln

    John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and confederate sympathizer, fatally shot 16th President Abraham Lincoln