Civil War

By Rwarren

  • Missouri Compromise

    http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/uscivilwar/timeline/timelinecivilwar.html
    For all events The Missouri compromise was made to balance the free and slave states.

  • Fugitive Slave Act

    The Fugitive slave Act was an act passed saying southern slave owners had to return northern slaves.
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    Kansas-Nebraska Act

    The Kansas-Nebraska Act took away indivisual rights of staes to become a slave free or slave state.

  • Lincoln-Douglas Debate

  • Raid on Harper's Ferry Sept.15-18

    John Brown lead an armed slave army to a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

  • Abraham Lincoln Elected as President.

  • Abraham Lincoln Elected as President

  • South Carolina Secede

    South Carolina, one of the richest states in the country, is the first to secede in the immediate aftermath of Lincoln’s election.
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    Seccesion in USA

  • Fort Sumter

  • First Battle of Bull Run

    First Major battle of the Civil War.

  • Trent Affair

    British public opinion is divided over the Civil War, but economic ties with America are strong and the British are keen to regain an influence in the New World. Two Confederate commissioners, on their way to persuade the British to support the Southern cause, are halted by a Union naval commander. Britain reacts strongly, threatening a war that neither Britain nor the Union wants, but is eventually appeased by Union efforts.

  • Enlisting Black soldiers

    The thirty-seventh Congress approves of the enrolment of black troops.

  • Second Battle of Bull Run 28- 30 Aug.

  • The Battle of Antietam

    The bloodiest day of the Civil War. Abraham Licoln threatened to order slave emancipation.

  • Emancipation proclamation

    Abraham Lincol passes law saying Afrivan American's are free.

  • Battle of Gettysburg 1-3 Jul.

    Confederate General Robert E. Lee, in an attempt to bring the Southern cause to the North, invades Pennsylvania but is routed by the Union army. Lee fails to capitalise on early military advantages, leading an infantry charge to a decisive defeat. Both sides are exhausted; the Union fails to press advantage as Lee retreats. Confederate forces are kept out of Union territory for the rest of the war.

  • Capture of Atlanta

    General William Sherman commands the Union army to capture the Confederate stronghold of Atlanta and embark on a campaign of destruction aimed at breaking the will of the Confederate army.

  • Lincoln Re-elected

  • Fort Fisher January - Febuary

    Union captures Fort Fisher in North Carolina.Jefferson Davis armed slaves which was rejected by congress.

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

    Union reinforcements arrive at the Appomattox Courthouse and capture General Lee forcing him to surrender. This marks the end of the Civil War.

  • Assasination of Abraham Lincoln

  • Thirteenth Amendment passed

    The Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery is ratified.