Unit 8 1857-1865

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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

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    Crimean War

  • 2 events

    -Kansas-Nebraska Act
    -Republican party form

  • 3 events

    • Buchanan defeats Fremont and Fillmore for presidency -Sumner beaten by Brooks in Senate chamber -Brown's Pottawatomie Massacre
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    Civil war in "bleeding Kansas"

  • 3 events

    -Panic of 1857
    -Tariff of 1857
    -Hinton R. Helper published "The Impending Crisis of the South"

  • 2 events

    -Dred Scott decision
    -Lecompton Constitution rejected

  • Lincoln-Douglass debates

  • Brown raids Hapers Ferry

  • 3 events

    -Lincoln wins four-way race for presidency
    -South Carolina secedes from Union
    -Crittenden Compromise fails

  • Seven seceding states from Confederate States of America

  • 4 events

    -Confederate government formed
    -Trent Affair
    -Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus
    -Morrill Tariff Act passed

  • First Battle of Bull Run

  • Lincoln takes office

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    Four upper South states secede

  • Fort Sumner fired

  • 2 events

    -Confederacy enacts conscription
    -Homestead Act

  • 10 events

    -Grant takes Fort Henry and Fort Donelson
    -Battle of Shiloh
    McClellan's Peninsula Campaign
    -Seven Days' Battles
    -Second Battle of Bull Run
    -Naval battle of Merrimack
    -Battle of Antietam
    -Prelimainary Emancipation Proclamation
    -Battle of Fredericksburg
    -Northern army seizes New Orleans
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    Alablama raids Northern shipping

  • 3 events

    -Union enacts conscription
    -New York City draft riots
    -National Banking System established

  • 5 events

    -Final Emancipation Proclamation
    -Battle of Chancallorsville
    -Battle of Gettysburg
    -Fall of Vicksburg
    -Fall of Port Hudson
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    Napoleon III installs Archduke Maximilian as emperor of Mexico

  • Alablama sunk by Union warship

  • 4 events

    -Sherman's march through Georgia
    -Grant's Wilderness Campaign
    -Battle of Cold Harbor
    -Lincoln defeats McClellan for presidency

  • 4 events

    -Hampton Roads Conference
    -Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox
    -Lincoln assassinated
    -13th Amendment ratified

  • Reforms Bill expands British electorate