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South Carolina Secede From the Union
In 1820 South Carolina left the Union and was the first first state to do so. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Had the people vote on to be free slave or slave state and violence broke out to force people to vote to be slave state. -
Dred Scott Case
Held that being on free territory, and was trying to get freedom after being in a free state. -
The Election of Lincoln
The Election of Lincoln to the presidency which favored antislavery people. -
Civil War Started
The first shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter and the Confederates won the war. -
Battle of Fredericksburg
Confederates looked very hard to beat -
Battle of Antietam
Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation and the Union won the battle -
Battle of Chancellorsville
Confederates win but Stonewall Jackson dies. -
Battle of Vicksburg
Union wins and gains control of the Mississippi River. -
Battle of Gettysburg
3 day battle 13,000 confederate soldiers died and this is where the Unions confidence started getting higher after they won. -
Battle of Atlanta
Union wins and destroys Confederates major city. -
Richmond/Appomattox Court House
Union had won and Confederates surrender. Union won the Civil War