Civil War

By ryleeburnett

  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    This was an attempt of keeping slaves in the south by making some sates free and some being pro-slavery.

  • The Dred Scott trial verdict

    The Dred Scott trial verdict
    Dred Scott had failed to gain his freedom as a slave.

  • John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry

    John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
    John Brown had raided Harper's Ferry in protest of slaves.

  • Fort Sumter is fired upon

    Fort Sumter is fired upon
    A ship called the Star of the West arrived in Charleston with over 200 U.S. troops and supplies going to Fort Sumter. South Carolina militia batteries fired upon the ship when it neared Charleston Harbor, forcing it to turn back to sea.

  • Battle of Bull Run

    Battle of Bull Run
    The first major battle of the civil war.

  • Battle of Antietam

    Battle of Antietam
    This was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history with a combined tally of 22,717 dead, wounded, or missing.

  • The Emancipation Proclamation is issued

    The Emancipation Proclamation is issued
    This document states that all people held as slaves within the rebellious states are now set free.

  • Siege of Vicksburg

    Siege of Vicksburg
    This is the last battle of the civil war.

  • Battle of Gettysburg

    Battle of Gettysburg
    This war only lasted 3 days and had the most deaths out of all battles in the civil war.

  • Battle of Missionary Ridge

    Battle of Missionary Ridge
    Union forces in Mississippi under Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant assaulted Missionary Ridge and beat the Confederate Army of Tennessee, forcing it to retreat to Georgia.

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

    Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
    Confederate general Robert E. Lee submitted to Union general-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant, all but ending the American Civil War.

  • Abraham Lincoln's assassination

    Abraham Lincoln's assassination
    John Wilkes Booth shot him in the back of the head with a .44 caliber Derringer at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C.

  • XIIIth Amendment

    XIIIth Amendment
    The thirteenth amendment had officially abolished slavery.

  • Reconstruction act of 1867

    Reconstruction act of 1867
    A series of statutes meant to help keep the United States together after the devastation of the Civil War.

  • Andrew Johnson's impeachment

    Andrew Johnson's impeachment
    Congress overruled Stanton's suspension and Grant resigned his position.

  • Election of 1876

    Election of 1876
    One of the most disputed presidential elections in American history. Samuel J. Tilden of New York won agents Ohio's Rutherford B. Hayes in the popular vote, and had 184 electoral votes to Hayes' 165, with 20 votes uncounted.