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Gettysburg Timeline

  • Introduction of slavery to the United States

    Introduction of slavery to the United States
    What do you know about the historical backdrop of subjection in the United States?
    Subjection was set up all through European colonization in the Americas. From early frontier days, it was drilled in Britain's provinces, including the Thirteen Colonies which framed the United States. Under the law, an oppressed individual was treated as property and could be purchased, sold, or parted with.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    JOHN ADAMS REFUSED TO CELEBRATE JULY 4TH AS INDEPENDENCE DAY. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE WASN'T SIGNED ON JULY 4, 1776. RICHARD HENRY LEE PROPOSED THE BILL FOR INDEPENDENCE. THOMAS JEFFERSON DIDN'T WRITE THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ALONE. THE VOTE FOR INDEPENDENCE WAS NOT UNANIMOUS. JOHN DUNLAP PRINTED HUNDREDS OF COPIES OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. IT TOOK 442 DAYS FOR INDEPENDENCE TO BECOME AN ACCEPTED THOUGHT.IT WAS WRITTEN FOR A REASON BESIDES ANNOUNCING OUR INDEPENDENCE.
  • First American Flag created

    First American Flag created
    Banner Resolution of June 14, 1777, expressed, "Settled: that the banner of the United States be made of thirteen stripes, substitute red and white; that the association be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, addressing another Constellation." Act of January 13, 1794, accommodated 15 stripes and 15 stars after May 1795.
  • The burning of Washington

    The burning of Washington
    The Burning of Washington was a British attack of Washington City (presently Washington, D.C.), the capital of the United States, during the Chesapeake Campaign of the War of 1812.
    Consuming of Washington
    30 killed 6 wounded Unknown killed and injured 1 frigate annihilated 1 frigate left 1 sloop abandoned
  • Abolitionist movement

    Abolitionist movement
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    Abolitionist movement

    The abolitionists retaliated! In April 1861, the slave possessing states isolated from the United States and the American Civil War started. The abolitionists let President Abraham Lincoln know that he expected to stop bondage. In January 1863, Lincoln composed the Emancipation Proclamation that said all slaves were liberated.
  • Morse Code invented

    Morse Code invented
    One of the Morse code frameworks was concocted in the United States by American craftsman and creator Samuel F.B. Morse during the 1830s for electrical telecommunication. A variation called the International Morse Code was contrived by a meeting of European countries in 1851 to represent letters with diacritic imprints.
  • Fugitive Slave Act

    Fugitive Slave Act
    The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 specified that people helping runaway slaves by giving food or sanctuary were dependent upon a half year's detainment and $1,000 fines. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 made a power of government chiefs engaged to seek after outlaw slaves in any state and return them to their proprietors.
  • Southern States secede // North’s response

    Southern States secede // North’s response
    Seven Southern states withdrew following Lincoln's political race in light of the fact that, however Lincoln vowed not to annihilate subjugation, he was unwelcoming to the spread of servitude in future states.
  • Beginning and ending of Civil War

    Beginning and ending of Civil War
    33% of the officers who battled for the Union Army were foreigners, and almost one of every 10 was African American.Black Union troopers rejected their pay rates for a very long time to dissent being paid lower compensation than white soldiers.Harriet Tubman drove a strike to free slaves during the Civil War.Lincoln was taken shots at—and practically killed—almost two years before he was assassinated.Before William Tecumseh Sherman turned into an incredible Union general.
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    Beginning and ending of Civil War

  • Delivering of speech

    Delivering of speech
    On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln conveyed a short discourse at the end of functions committing the combat zone burial ground at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Respecting a solicitation to offer a couple of comments, Lincoln memorialized the Union dead and featured the redemptive force of their penance.