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Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
A book that convinced people that slavery was bad and it was inspired by the fugitive slave act. -
Republican party is performed
anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the upper midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party -
Kansas Nebraska Act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders -
Dred Scott v. Sanford decision is rendered
Dred scott sued his master's widow for his freedom on the grounds that he lived as a resident of a free state and territory. He won in a smaller court then the supreme court reversed it. -
John Brown's raid on Harper's ferry
was an effort by John Brown an abolitionist to initiate an armed slave revolt by taking over a U.S. arsenal at harper's ferry -
John Brown is hanged
In Charles Town, Virginia, militant abolitionist John Brown is executed on charges of treason, murder, and insurrection -
Abe Lincoln elected president
Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States -
South Carolina votes to secede from the U.S.
The first slave state to secede from the union -
Confederates fire on fort Summer
The fort had been the source of tension between the Union and the Confederacy and the confederates fired on the fort -
Richmond becomes the capital of the confederacy
in the Confederate Capital City of Montgomery, Alabama, the decision was made to name the City of Richmond, Virginia as the new Capital of the Confederacy. -
Lincoln suspends habeas corpus
When the privilege of the writ is suspended, the prisoner is denied the right to secure such a writ and therefore can be held without trial indefinitely. -
First battle of the bull run is fought
First major land battle of the civil war -
Jefferson Davis elected president of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis was elected to run the confederacy -
The merrimac and the monitor fight of the Virginia cost
First battle with ships in the civil war -
Battle of Shiloh
a battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, the seventh-costliest land battle of the American Civil War -
Robert E. Lee is named commander of the Army of Northern Virginia
Commanded the army of Northern Virginia for the confederates -
Richmond falls to the union army
Richmond's defensive line of batteries and fortifications set up under General Robert E. Lee, a daring ride around the Union Army -
Battle of Antietam
The bloodiest war in American history where the Union faced off against the Confederates and no one won -
Battle of fredericksburg
Fought in Frederick Virginia where Robert E Lee faced Ambrose Burnside -
Emancipation Proclamation is announced
Abe Lincoln passed this law saying all slaves shall be free -
Battle of Chancellorsville
resulted in a Confederate victory that stopped an attempted flanking movement by Maj. Gen. Joseph -
Confederates surrender at vicksburg
The Confederacy is torn in two when General John C. Pemberton surrenders to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Vicksburg -
Battle of Gettysburg
The most important battle of the Civil war. The union won -
New york city draft riots
violent disturbances in Lower Manhattan, widely regarded as the culmination of working-class discontent with new laws passed by Congress that year to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War. -
Lincoln gives his Gettysburg address
Famous speech by Abe Lincoln, A cemetery for union soldiers -
Atlanta is captured
Union forces commanded by William Tecumseh Sherman overwhelmed and defeated Confederate forces defending the city under John Bell Hood -
Abe Lincoln defeats George McClellan to win re-election
Abe Lincoln Wins his 2nd term -
Sherman begins his march to sea
was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia -
congress passed the 13th amendment
the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. -
Freedman's bureau is created
The Freedmen's Bureau provided food, housing and medical aid, established schools and offered legal assistance -
Lincoln gives his second inaugural address
Lincoln tried to restore peace in the nation after the civil war -
Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox
one of the last battles of the American Civil War. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, setting the stage for the end of the four-year civil war. -
President Lincoln assassinated
Abe Lincoln was assassinated at a theater in Washington dc by John Wilkes booth -
John Wilkes Booth is killed
Union soldiers tracked him down to Virginia and killed him
