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Dred Scott Supreme Court Decision
Dred Scott who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States; and that the Missouri Compromise , which had declared free all territories west of Missouri and north of latitude 36°30′, was unconstitutional. The decision added fuel to the sectional controversy and pushed the country closer to civil war. -
Theodore Roosevelt is born
One day will become a great leader -
Lincoln Elected as 16th President
The first republican elected into office.Campaign featured a remarkable series of public encounters on the slavery issue, known as the Lincoln-Douglas debates, in which Lincoln argued against the spread of slavery -
South Carolina Secedes
When the ordinance was adopted South Carolina became the first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the United States. -
Confederate States of America formed
Seven states declare succession. getting closer to the civil war -
Lincoln Inaugurated
In his inauguration speech Lincoln extended an olive branch to the South, but also said that he planned to enforce federal laws in the states that seceded. -
Fort Sumter Fired On
six weeks after Lincolns inauguration the American Civil War begins when Confederates fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor in South Carolina. -
Virginia Secedes
Another state joins the confederates further separating the country -
Remaining four of the eleven Confederate states seceded
the contry is divided in the middle war is breaking out -
Union loses First Battle of Bull Run
This was the first major land battle of the American Civil War. Known as the First Battle of Bull Run
3,000 Union casualties, compared with 1,750 for the Confederates. Its outcome sent northerners who had expected a quick, decisive victory reeling, and gave rejoicing southerners a false hope -
Union loses Second Battle of Bull Run
When the news spread through the north there was a huge drop in moral -
Battle of Antietam
It was the first battle of the American Civil War to be fought on northern soil. It provided Abraham Lincoln the political cover he needed to issue his Emancipation Proclamation. Though the result of the battle was inconclusive, it remains the bloodiest single day in American history, with more than 22,000 casualties. -
Emancipation Proclamation
it federally freed over 3 million slaves. Lincoln was convinced that abolition had become a sound military strategy, as well as the morally correct path. -
Lincoln Re-Elected
Northern voters happily voted for Lincoln and his polices.
before this no country had held elections during a military conflict. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
He was shot five days after Lee surrendered to the north -
Civil War Ends
General Edmund Kirby Smith signs surrender papers bringing a formal end to the bloodiest four years in U.S. history. -
Southern states readmitted to Union
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina are readmitted to the Union -
15th Amendment Ratified
This gives black men the right to vote, woman can still not vote. This made a lot of people very upset many organizations (The KKK) reached out to fight this -
43rd Congress has three black members
a huge jump from 4 years prior -
Jim Crow Laws
A set of racist rules that separated blacks and whites. continued to be enforced into the civil rights movement of the 60's
