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Fugitive Slave law
Many northerner disagreed on the fugitive slave law, the law was "Runaway slaves would be caught in the North and returned them to the South. People who live in the South wanted slavery, but in the North try to end slavery that why lot of blacks went toward the North. -
Welcome Republicans
Republican party formed, and they opposed slavery. Abraham Lincoln was the first president from the republican party. -
Kansas and Nebraska Act
It allowed people in territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether they should allow slavery within their border. -
U.S Supreme court rule
Since slaves were property, slave owners had the right to take their slaves into free states and territories, they couldn't become free just by being in a free state/territory. -
Lincoln Election
It caused seven Southern states to secede from the union to form the confederate states of America. It separated them even more. -
States that seceded from the U.S
These are the first 7 states that seceded from the U.S to form the confederate states: South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Mississippi, Florida, and Louisiana. -
Civil War Begin
Abraham Lincoln is sworn in as 16th president of the United States of America on April 12, 1861 - at 4:30am confederate Gen. pierre Beauregard open fire with 50 Cannors upon fort Sumeter in Charleston, South Carolina. The civil war begin -
Battle of Bull Run
The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of First Manassas, was fought on July 21 near the city of Manassas. The confederate won this battle. -
Confederate States
Confederate of America was formed on February 4. They were known as the gray rebels. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln used the occasion of the Union victory at Antietam to issue a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all slaves in the rebellious states. -
General Ulysses S. Grant (General of the Union army)
Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant took Vicksburg (Mississippi, a victory that would prove to be the turning point of the war in the western theater. -
Assassination Of President Lincoln
President Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth as he watched a play at Ford's Theater . He died early the next day. -
End of the war
The war ended in Spring, Robert E. Lee surrendered the last major Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865. -
Assassination Of President Lincoln
Lincoln was assassinated by an actor and confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C. -
African American rights
The 14 amendment was passed to gave African American citizenship and said that states had to provide equal protection for all.
