Unit 8 Timeline

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

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Republican party forms.

  • Brown's Pottawatomie Massacre

  • Buchanan defeats Fremont and Fillmore for presidency; Sumner beaten by Brooks in Senate chamber.

  • "Dred Scott" decision; Lecompton Constitution rejected.

  • Panic of 1857; Tariff of 1857.

  • Hinton R. Helper publishes "The Impending Crisis of the South."

  • Lincoln-Douglass debates.

  • Brown raids Harpers Ferry.

  • 1856-1860 Civil war in "bleeding Kansas."

  • Lincoln wins four-way race for presidency; SOuth Carolina secedes from the Union; Crittenden Compromise fails.

  • Seven seceding states form Confederate States of America.

  • First Battle of Bull Run.

  • Confederate goverment formed; Lincoln takes office March 4); Fort Sumter fired upon (April 22).

  • Four upper South states secedes (April-June); Morrill Tariff Acts passed; Trent Affair; Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus.

  • Grant takes Fort Henry and Fort Donelson.

  • Seven Days' Battles.

  • Second Battle of Bull Run; Naval battle of the Merrimack and the Monitor.; Battle of Antietam.

  • Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation; Battle of Fredericksburg; Nothern army seizes New Orleans.

  • Confederacy enacts conscription; Homestead Act

  • Battle of Shiloh; McClellan's Peninsula CAmpiagn.

  • New York City drain riots.

  • Napoleon III installs Arhduke Maximilliam as emperor of Mexico.

  • Final Emancipation Proclamation.

  • Battle of Chancellorsville; Battle of Gettysburg; Fall of Vicksburg; Fall of Port Hudson.

  • Union enacts conscription.

  • National Banking System established

  • Alabama raids Northern shipping.

  • Alabama sunk by Union warship.

  • Sherman's march through Georgia; Grant's Wilderness Camppaign; Battle of Cold Harbor.

  • Lincoln defeats McClellan for Precidency.

  • Hampton Roads Conference; Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox.

  • Lincoln assassinated.

  • Thirteenth Amendment ratified.