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The Missouri Compromis is created
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The Compromise of 1850
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The Fugitive Slave Act is passed
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Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.
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The Kansas- Nebraska Act is signed into law.
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The Dred Scott Decision in the Supreme Court
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John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry.
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South Carolina secedes from the Union
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Abraham Lincoln takes office.
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The Battle at Fort Sumter
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1st Battle of Bull Run
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Battle of Shiloh
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The Battle of Antietam
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The Emancipation Proclamation goes into effect
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Battle of Gettysburg
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The Battle of Vicksburg
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Sherman's March to the Sea
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Reconstruction Begins
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The Confederacy surrenders at Appomattox
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated.