Civil War timeline

  • Missouri compromise of 1820

    Missouri compromise of 1820
    It was an act of congress where Missouri was admitted as a slave state, and slavery was prohibited in the lousiana purchase north
  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    it was kind off slaves and free states and deals with mexico 1850.
  • Kansas-nebraska act

    Kansas-nebraska act
    was created, of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory
  • bleeding kansas 1854-1861

    bleeding kansas 1854-1861
    is the term used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas
  • John Brown Raids

    John Brown Raids
    as an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown's raid, accompanied by 20 men in his party, was defeated by a detachment of U.S. Marines led by Col. Robert E. Lee.
  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860
    november 6, 1860 and served as the immediate impetus for
    the outbreak of the American Civil War.
  • Inaguaration of Abraham Lincoln

    Inaguaration of Abraham Lincoln
    that day he became a president he made an very important speech march 4 1861.
  • Fort Sumter

    Fort Sumter
    Fort Sumter is a Third System masonry sea fort located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. The fort is best known as the site upon which the shots that started the American Civil War were fired, at the Battle of Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation
    The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation[1] issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, as a war measure during the American Civil War
  • Battle of Vicksburg

    Battle of Vicksburg
    This battle was fought in the around the city of vicksburg. It was the final major military action in the vicksburg campaign. This battle is also known as the siege of vicksburg.
  • Battle of gettysburg

    Battle of gettysburg
    Turning point of the american civil war. Around the town of gettysburg
  • Shermans march to sea

    Shermans march to sea
    is the name commonly given to the military Savannah Campaign in the American Civil War. The campaign began with Sherman's troops leaving the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia
  • Assasination of Abraham LIncoln

    Assasination of Abraham LIncoln
    Abraham lincoln was assasinated on April 15, 1865, in Washington D.C. Assisnated by john wilkes booth
  • The battle of palmito ranch

    The battle of palmito ranch
    was fought between Union Army and Confederate States Army forces on May 12–13, 1865 near Brownsville, Texas
  • Jefferson Davis Farewell

    Jefferson Davis Farewell
    was delivered on January 21, 1861, less than two weeks after the Mississippi legislature voted to secede from the Union.