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Uncle Tom's Cabin is Published
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Helped inspire the civil war -
Republican Party is formed
Whigs had begun meeting in the upper Midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party. -
Kansas Nebraska Act Passed
Allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders -
Dred Scott v. Sandford decision is rendered
Sparked conflict with slave territory -
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
Slave revolt by abolitionist to take over Harper's Ferry, a US arsenal -
John Brown is Hanged
John Brown is executed on charges of treason, murder, and insurrection. -
Abraham Lincoln elected president
Elected 16th president of the US. First republican president. -
South Carolina votes to secede from the United States
First state to declare that it seceded from the union -
Confederate Forces Fire on Fort Sumter
The start of the Civil War, Confederates attack the Union -
Richmond becomes the capital of the Confederacy
Confederate Capital City of Montgomery, Alabama, the decision was made to name the City of Richmond, Virginia as the new Capital of the Confederacy. -
Robert E. Lee named commander of the Army of Northern Virginia
His first weeks as commander strengthened the defenses instead of attack. -
Lincoln suspends habeas corpus
Suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, arguing that it was both necessary and constitutional for him to have suspended it without Congress -
First Battle of Bull Run is Fought
Confederate beat the Union in Virgina -
Jefferson Davis elected president of the Confederacy
He ran unopposed so he automatically won the presidency of the Confederacy. -
The Merrimac and the Monitor fight of the Virginia coast
Naval engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, a harbour at the mouth of the James River, notable as history's first duel between ironclad warships and the beginning of a new era of naval warfare. -
Battle of Shiloh
Union victory in Southwestern Tennessee -
Battle of Antietam
No side really won. Deadliest battle in american history, 23,000 died. -
Battle of Fredericksburg
Over 18,000 causalities. Confederates won. Largest concentration of troops in a Civil War battle -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Lincoln proclaimed that all slaves will be granted freedom in Confederate and Union -
Battle of Chancellorsville
Confederate defeated the Union's plan to out flank them. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The most important battle of the Civil War. Union won -
Confederates surrender at Vicksburg
One of the Unions most successful battles in the Civil war. -
New York City draft riots
Known at the time as Draft Week, were violent disturbances in Lower Manhattan, widely regarded as the culmination of working-class discontent with new laws passed by Congress that year to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War. -
Lincoln Gives His Gettysburg Address
President Lincoln delivered his most famous speech that honored the fallen soldiers. -
Lincoln gives his second inaugural address
Gave oath of office, died the month following his assassination. -
Congress passed the 13th amendment
Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime -
Atlanta is captured
Union forces commanded by William Tecumseh Sherman overwhelmed and defeated Confederate forces defending the city under John Bell Hood -
Abraham Lincoln defeats George McClellan to win re-election
Abraham Lincoln defeats George McClellan in the 1864 election by a landslide. -
Sherman begins his March to the Sea
Union General William T. Sherman led some 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. The purpose of this “March to the Sea” was to frighten Georgia's civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause. -
Freedman's Bureau is created
Agency of the United States Department of War to "direct such issues of provisions, clothing, and fuel, as he may deem needful for the immediate and temporary shelter and supply of destitute and suffering refugees and freedmen and their wives and children -
Richmond falls to the Union Army
The Rebel capital of Richmond, Virginia, falls to the Union, the most significant sign that the Confederacy is nearing its final days. -
Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox
Gen Lee surrendered to Ulysses Grant to end the Civil War -
President Lincoln Assassination
Abe Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theater in DC -
John Wilkes Booth is Killed
Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth was shot in killed.
