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Harriet Breecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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Civil war in bleeding Kansas
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Seven seceding states form Confederate States of America.
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-Confederate Goverment formed,
-Lincon takes office. -
-Grant takes fort henry and fort Donleson
-Seven days' battle
-Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
-Northern Amry seizes New Orleans -
-Final Emancioation Proclamation
-Battle of Gettysburg -
- Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox -Licoln is assassinated -Thirteenth amendment ratified