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First Issue of the Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison published the first issue of the liberator. When it was published, the motto “Our country is the world—our countrymen are mankind" was brought with it. After it was published it was banned in the South. -
Compromise of 1850
It was a total of five separate bills passed in 1850. It defused a confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired from Mexico. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin published
At first it was in the newspaper, which made people happy, but then she put them all together to make a book. It changed how people viewed slavery. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It allowed people in Kansas and Nebraska decide whether they wanted slavery or not. -
James Buchanan Becomes President
He was elected five times to the House of Representatives; then, after an interlude as Minister to Russia, served for a decade in the Senate. -
Dred Scott Decision
The U.S. supreme court ruled that a slave who entered a free state was not free. -
John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry
It was an attempt by John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
Abraham Lincoln elected president
Abraham Lincoln becomes the 16th president of the U.S. He wins because of the divided Democratic party. -
South Carolina Secedes from the Union
The People of the State of South Carolina assembled together and declared that the frequent violations of the Constitution of the United States, by the Federal Government, and its interference upon the reserved rights of the States, fully justified this State in then leaving from the Federal Union. -
Battle at Fort Sumter begins
General Beauregard, in command of the Confederate forces around Charleston Harbor, opened fire on the Union forces holding Fort Sumter. -
1st Battle of Bullrun
It was the first major battle of the Civil War. The Union marched from Washington to charge the Confederates. -
Emancipation Proclamation
It was issued during the third year of the civil war. It made it so that all slaves were free. -
Battle of Gettysburg begins
This battle is considered the most important engagement of the Civil War. Robert E Lee led a charge which failed so he forced his troops to fall back. -
Sherman's march to the sea
Sherman led 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. The purpose of the March to the Sea was to frighten Georgia’s population into abandoning the Confederate cause. -
The Surrender at Appomatox Court House
Lee was hurried away so he headed west and ended in Appomattox Country. The Confederates were cut off from supplies again. Eventually they were surrounded and Lee surrendered. -
Lincoln's Assasination
John Wilkes Booth fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theatre. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army.
