Unit 8 Timeline By edwinlima96 Jan 6, 1852 Hariet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin Jan 6, 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act Jan 6, 1854 Republican Party Forms Jan 6, 1856 Buchanan Wis Election Jan 6, 1856 Brown's Pottawatomie Massacre Period: Jan 6, 1856 to Jan 6, 1861 Civil War in Bleeding Kansas Jan 6, 1857 Dred Scott Decision Jan 6, 1857 Lecompton Constitution Rejected Jan 6, 1857 Panic of 1857 Jan 6, 1858 Lincoln-Douglas Debate Jan 6, 1859 Brown raids Harpers Ferry Jan 6, 1860 Lincoln wins election Jan 6, 1860 South Carolina Secedes from union Jan 6, 1861 Confederate States of American Form Jan 6, 1861 Lincoln suspends writ of Habeas Corpus Jan 6, 1861 First Battle of Bull run Jan 6, 1861 Fort Sumter fired on Jan 6, 1862 Grant takes fort Henry and Fort Donelson Jan 6, 1862 Second Battle of Bull Run Jan 6, 1862 Battle Antietam Jan 6, 1863 National Banking system established Jan 6, 1863 Battle of Gettysberg Jan 6, 1864 Battle of Cold Harbor Jan 6, 1865 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Jan 6, 1865 Thirteenth Amendment ratified Jan 6, 1865 Lincoln assassinated