Unit 5 Timeline

Fugitive Slave Act

Jan 1, 1850

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fugitive-slave-acts
The Act in which escaped slaves when found were returned into their owners

Unit 5 Timeline

Period: Jan 1, 1850 to Dec 6, 1865

Kansas-Nebraska Act

May 30, 1854

http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/kansas.htm

Election of 1860

Jan 1, 1860

wikipedia
the elction between Lincoln and Breckinridge

Battle at Fort Sumter

Apr 12, 1861

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Sumter
The battle that started the civil war

The Monitor and Merrimack

Mar 9, 1862

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/389515/Battle-of-the-Monitor-and-Merrimack
The first duel etween naval ships

The Battle of Shilloh

Apr 6, 1862

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shiloh
Major Battle in the western theater in the American Civil war

The Emancipation Proclomation

Jan 1, 1863

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation
A paper that said that any slave in that is not apart of the U.S. is a free slave.

Battle of Gettysburg

Jul 1, 1863

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gettysburg
The Battle that caused the most casualties

Thirteenth ammendment

Apr 8, 1864

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
The Ammednment that abolished slavery and eternal servitude.

the surrender at appomattox

Apr 9, 1865

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/appomatx.htm
When Ulysses S. Grant surrendered to the North.