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First issue of The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison was the inventor of The Liberator in 1831. William did the newspaper for 35 years. -
Compromised of 1850- passed
it was a request for California to be a free state and to settle the issue of slavery from the North. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin Published.
Uncle Tom's Cabin was about how slavery was in the early 1800s and mid-1800s. the book was made by Harriet Beecher Stowe -
Kanas- Nebraska act- passed
The act was for the territories to decide wither to have slave or no slave in there territory. -
Dred Scott's Decission.
Dred Scott was owned by a military surgeon and was close relationship him and traveled with him in free states and wanted to have his freedom but the court thought he doesn't have the rights to because he was not a citizen but a Property. -
James Buchanan was sworn into office as the 15th president.
James wasn't into office until March 4th 1857 to 1861. He won from the election against John C. Fremont. -
John Brown's Raid at Harpers Ferry
The raid was for slavery to stop. John had all his men (who was slaves) go against there owners. But it failed John's two sons died and half of his men were killed and he was sentence to death. -
South Carolina secedes from the union.
South Carolina was important to the Confederal republic because its where the military bases is and weapons for the Civil War. -
Battle at Fort Sumpter begins
General Anderson was on the island when the Confederates ordered them to surrender but General Anderson said no to them and the Confederates asked again but when General Anderson said no they opened fire from the bases by Fort Sumpter. -
Battle at Fort Sumter begins
The Confederacy army wanted the General to surrender Fort Sumter but the General refused and the Confederacy army started to fire at the fort for 34 hours and the General retreated but never surrendered. -
Battle Of Bull Run
Union General Irvin McDowell had 28,000 soldiers advanced and the South was behind a fence and started to fire at the Union soldiers and the South did retreat but Virginia came with reinforcements and the union retreated a lot of people died that day. -
Emancipation proclamation.
this Proclamation said to free enslaved Americans from January 1st to have the enslaved to have rights to vote and not to be said as property. -
Battle of Gettsburg
The Confederates waited for the Union to come and ambushed them but failed to defeat them the union won that battle -
Sherman's March to the sea
The march left from the Captured Atlanta city with some troops to capture more towns and kill military targets. -
The Surrender at Appomatto's court house.
The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War. It was the final engagement of Confederate Army general Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. Lee, having abandoned the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, after the ten-month Siege of Petersburg, retreated west, hoping to join his army with the Confederate forces in North Carolina. -
Lincoln's Assasination.
United States President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre as the American Civil War was drawing to a close -
Abaraham Lincoln elected president
Some people were excited for Lincoln to be president but other people didn't like the fact that Lincoln is against slavery and wants to take it away.
