Civil War

Missouri Compromise

Apr 9, 1820

Nat Turner's Rebellion

Apr 9, 1831

Compromise of 1850

Apr 9, 1850

Shots Fired at Fort Sumter

Apr 12, 1861

The Confederate Army defeats the Union army at the First Battle of Bull Run in VA

Jul 21, 1861

The ironclad ships USS Monitor and CSS Virginia battle, ending in a draw

Mar 9, 1862

Battle of Anietam

Sep 17, 1862

Casualties total 26,000; Lee's invasion of North ends in retreat

President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclomation

Jan 1, 1863

eventually frees all slaves

Battle of Gettysburg

Jul 1, 1863

Turning point in was- Union armydefeats the Congederate army

Confederate troops surender town of Vicksburg

Jul 4, 1863

after 40 days of nonstop cannon assultrs from Union troops

Gettysburg Address

Nov 19, 1863

by President Lincoln at the dedication of a national cemetary on the site of the battlefield in Gettysburg

Union army captures Atlanta, Georgia

Sep 2, 1864

Sherman's troops burn the city to the ground

Lincoln reelected

Nov 8, 1864

Confederate Gen. Lee surrenders to Union Gen. Grant at Appomattox Court House, VA

Apr 9, 1865

Lincolns assassination

Apr 14, 1865