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The book Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom, this book is written about a slave who was torn from his family and he escapes from a plantation with a friend whos is also a slave. People who read the book saw a different side of slavery and many wanted it to end. This caused many conflicts and is one of the causes of the Civil War. -
Abraham Lincoln is elected President.
Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th president of the United States. He won with all the free states not the slave states too, which means he won the vote with the Democratic party on his side. -
South Carolina Seceded the Unions
South Carolina decided to break from the union because the north made slavery illegal. Then 11 other states helped create the Confederacy, which was their own country separate from the US and kept slavery. -
Battle: Fort Sumter
When Abraham Lincoln showed the plans to resupply the fort, General P.G.T. Beauregard attacked Fort Sumter, starting the Battle of Fort Sumter. After a guns were shot for a little more than a day, Union general Anderson and many soldiers surrendered the fort on April 13. -
Battle: Bull Run
The first battle of Bull Run took place at the beginning of the Civil War. The North was thinking that it would be a simple victory for the Union and would quickly end the war. They were wrong. The Confederates won the war continued for 4 more years. -
Battle of the Ironclads (Monitor & Merrimack)
The battle of Monitor and Merrimack is well known because it is the first battle to have a huge fight between ironclad warships. -
Battle: Shiloh
The confederate army jumped to action to fight the union army who was lead by Ulysses S. Grant and Don Carlos Buell at southwestern tennessee and even though this was a surprise attack on the Union they still ended up winning. -
Battle: Antietam
Until the battle of Antietam started the Confederate army was on the defensive and so the battle started when the union army lead by general Joseph Hooker attacked, this battle was the bloodiest day of the war. -
Battle: Fredericksburg
The battle of fredericksburg is when union started to build pontoon bridges, the confederates were still dug into the hills past the city and on december 13 the general of the union thought it would be a good idea to attack head on. -
Battle: Chancellorsville
The battle of Chancellorsville was a very important battle that happened in a small town in Virginia, the South defeated the north even with their small army, they only won due to superior war tactics put in place by General Robert E. Lee. -
Battle: Vicksburg
The siege of vicksburg was an intense long battle that took 47 days to settle the dust and the union won, surrounded the city of vicksburg and took control. -
Battle: Gettysburg
The battle of Gettysburg from July first to the third in close to the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania the confederates tried to invade the union where they wanted to scare the union into surrendering but in turn they failed and were forced back to the south -
Lee’s surrender at Appomattox
Lee and his confederate surrenders at the Appomattox house because their army is disconnected from the main army -
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated
Abraham Lincoln was at a play in a presidential box with his wife. When the play got to a comedic part and the audience laughed loudly, John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln died the next day. John Wilkes Booth killed Lincoln because he thought the south was going to lose the Civil War. -
Ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution
The 13th amendment declared that slavery was illegal. Abraham Lincoln realized that the Emancipation Proclamation must be followed by a constitutional amendment to confirm the end of slavery. The 13th amendment was passed once the Civil War was over.
