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The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was United States federal legislation that stopped northern attempts to forever prohibit slavery's expansion by admitting Missouri as a slave state in exchange for legislation which prohibited slavery north of the 36°30′ parallel except for Missouri. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner's Rebellion was a rebellion of enslaved Virginians that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831. The rebels killed between 55 and 65 people, at least 51 of whom were white. Nat Turner was an African-American enslaved preacher. -
Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso was an unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War. The conflict over the Wilmot Proviso was one of the major events leading to the American Civil War. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War". -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas, or the Border War was a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri, between 1854 and 1859. It emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas. -
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The Lincoln–Douglas debates (August 21, 1858) were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican party candidate, and Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. -
John Brown's Raid
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by abolitionist John Brown, from October 16 to 18, 1859, to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. It has been called the dress rehearsal for, or Tragic Prelude to the Civil War. -
Fort Sumpter
Early on the morning of April 12, 1861, Confederate guns around the harbor opened fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. At 2:30 pm on April 13th, Major Robert Anderson surrendered the fort and it was evacuated the next day. With the firing on Fort Sumter, the American Civil War was officially upon both the North and the South. -
Battle of Big Bethel
The Battle of Big Bethel was one of the earliest land battles of the American Civil War. It took place on the Virginia Peninsula, near Newport News, on June 10, 1861. -
First Battle of Bull Run
The First Battle of Bull Run (July 21, 1861) was the first major battle of the Civil War. Although the Union forces outnumbered the Confederates, the experience of the Confederate soldiers proved the difference as the Confederates won the battle. -
Battle of the Ironclads
The battle of the Ironclads (March 9, 1862) occurred over water. The battle was named after Ironclads because those were the ships that were fighting. The two ironclads fought for hours. They fired cannonball after cannonball at each other, but they could not sink each other. Eventually both ships left the battle. The battle itself was inconclusive with neither side really winning. -
Shiloh
On April 7, 1862, the Civil War's Battle of Shiloh ended with a Union victory over Confederate forces in Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee. The two-day conflict was at that point the bloodiest battle in American history, with more than 23,000 dead and wounded. -
Antietam
The Battle of Antietam, also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the Southern United States, was a battle of the American Civil War, fought on September 17, 1862. This battle was the first to be on Union soil and it was one of the bloodiest days in American history, with a combined tally of 22,717 dead, wounded, or missing. -
Fredericksburg
The Battle of Fredericksburg (December 11-15, 1862) was an early battle of the civil war and stands as one of the greatest Confederate victories. Confederates had the high ground advantage and wiped out the Union army with ease. -
Chancellorsville
The Battle of Chancellorsville (April 30-May 6, 1863) was a huge victory for the Confederacy and General Robert E. Lee during the Civil War, though it is also famous for being the battle in which Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson was mortally wounded. -
Vicksburg
The Siege of Vicksburg (May 18, 1863-July 4, 1863) was a decisive Union victory during the American Civil War that divided the confederacy and cemented the reputation of Union General Ulysses S. Grant. -
Gettysburg
The battle of Gettysburg, (July 1-3 1863), was a major engagement in the American Civil War. The Union had abolished the Confederate army, killing 3,903 and wounding 18,735 soldiers. This battle is regarded as the turning point of the war and has been more thoroughly studied and analyzed than any other battles in U.S. history. -
Appomattox Courthouse
On April 9, 1865, the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia in the McLean House in the village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia signaled the end of the nation's largest war. -
Lincoln Assasination
On the evening of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War. -
The Peculiar Institution
The Peculiar Institution is a non-fiction book about slavery published in 1956, by academic Kenneth M. Stampp of the University of California, Berkeley and other universities. (Mr. Lewis I couldn't find the day date for this event so I just put it as 1)
