The Civil War

By millybock

  • missouri compromise

  • compromise of 1850

  • fugitive slave law

  • uncle tom's cabin

  • kansas-nebraska act

  • dred scott decision

  • lincoln/douglas debates

  • john brown at harper's ferry

  • election of lincoln

  • south carolina secedes

  • Fort Sumter

  • Battle of Bull Run

  • Battle of Shiloh

  • seven day's battle

  • Battle at Antietam

  • Lee defeats Burnside and the Army of the Potomac at Fredericksburg, VA

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Battle of Chancellorsville

  • Lee defeats Joseph Hooker (Burnside’s replacement) at Chancellorsville, VA

  • Battle of Vicksburg

  • George C. Meade (scholarly, unspectacular, abrupt) replaced Hooker at Lincoln’s command

  • Gettysburg battle

  • Cold Harbor

  • 13th admendment was passed and abolished slavery

  • The las offensive for Lee's Army of Northern Virginia begins with an attack on the center or Grant's forces as Petersburg

  • Davis and his government set fire to capital building to keep Union from using it and flee

  • Battle of Appomattox Court House

  • Lincoln’s Assassination

  • Union cavalry found John Wilkes Booth hiding in a Virginia tobacco shed

  • 13th admendment is finally ratified