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Civil War timeline

By Joebiss

  • The republican party is formed

    Anti-slavery whigs met in march of 1854 to form a new party and came up with

  • Kansas Nebraska Act

    Allowed the states Kansas and Nebraska to vote if they wanted slavery. Was a failure

  • Dred Scott v Sandford

    The court decided that freed blacks were still not US citizens

  • John Browns raid on Harper ferry

    John Brown attempts to lead an armed slave revolt

  • John Brown was hanged

    John Brown is hanged after trying to lead an armed slave revolt.

  • Lincoln's election

    Abraham Lincoln was elected 16th president of the US. This was the primary catalyst of the civil war.

  • Secession of South Carolina

    South Carolina secedes from the US, start of Civil war.

  • Richmond becomes capital of the confederacy

    The confederate capital was moved from montgomery to Richmond in 1861

  • Confederates attack Fort Sumter

    After being sieged, union forces were outgunned and surrender, with only 2 deaths resulting from this conflict.

  • battle of Bull run

    The confederates won with 4,878 casualties on both sides

  • Robert E. Lee becomes commander of the Army of North Virginia

    Robert E Lee, one of the best strategists in US history, decides to lead the Confederate army because he is from Virginia.

  • Uncle Tom's cabin is published

    This book opened the eyes of northern society to the details of slavery

  • Jefferson Davis elected

    Jefferson Davis was selected as the first president of the Confederacy

  • The Merrimac and Monitor fight off the coast of Virginia

    The ironclad battle was tthe most important naval battle of the civil war and the first time that ironclad warships met in combat.

  • Battle of Shiloh

    This union victory allowed them to advance into Mississippi

  • Battle of Antietam

    Also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, this Union victory gave Lincoln the confidence to declare his Emancipation proclamation.

  • Emancipation Proclamation is announced

    This document outlawed slavery in all the southern states, even though they had seceded.

  • battle of Fredericksburg

    Ambrose Burnside and the Union army tried and failed to take Fredericksburg.

  • Battle of Chancellorsville

    Ended in a Confederate victory that stopped an attempted flanking movement by Maj. Gen. Joseph "Fighting Joe" Hooker's Army

  • battle of Gettysburg

    deadliest battle of the war, lasts 3 days.

  • Confederates Surrender at Vicksburg

    The Union captured the last major confederate stronghold on the mississippi river

  • New York City draft riots

    Men rioted after the union enacted a draft in nyc.

  • Lincoln suspends Habeas Corpus

    Lincoln repeals the right for arrested criminals to go to court.

  • Gettysburg Address

    Lincolns famous address began with "Four score and seven years ago..."

  • Atlanta is captured

    Union forces captured the city in the battle of Atlanta

  • Lincolns re election

    In the middle of the Civil war, Lincoln was elected over democratic nominee.George B. McClellan.

  • Sherman's March to Sea

    General Sherman's campaign through virginia that used scorched earth tactics.

  • Congress passes the 13th ammendment

    this ammendment outlawed slavery after the Union victory in the civil war.

  • Freddman's Berreau is created

    formed to help freed slaves after the civil war.

  • Lincoln's second inaugural address

    Lincoln spoke about slavery only months before his assassination, during the final days of the Civil war.

  • The Union takes Richmond

    After a long siege, General Grant captured the confederate capital.

  • Lincoln's Assassination

    Lincoln is killed by John Wilkes Booth in a theatre

  • Confederate surrender at appatomax

    Robert E Lee's surrender ends the civil war

  • John Wilkes Booth is Killed.

    after killing Abraham Lincoln, Booth is shot dead by the Union Army