The Civil War

By ClovieKnowles

  • Missouri Compromise

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  • Compromise of 1850

  • Fugitive Slave Law

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

  • Kansas-Neb Act

  • Dred Scott Decision

  • Lincoln/Douglas Debates

  • John Brown @ Harper's Ferry

  • Election of Lincoln

  • South Carolina Secedes

  • Battle at fort Sumpter

  • Second Battle of Bull Run

  • Second battle of Bull Run

  • Lee defeats burnside

  • Stonewall Jackson dies

  • Gettysburg

  • Cold Harbor

  • Fall of Richmond

  • Lee surrenders

  • Final portrait of a war weary president

  • Celebrations break out in Washington.

  • The Stars and Stripes is ceremoniously raised over Fort Sumter.

  • President Abraham Lincoln dies at 7:22 in the morning.

  • Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston surrenders to Sherman near Durham in North Carolina.

  • Funeral Procession on Pennsylvania Ave.

  • John Wilkes Booth is shot and killed in a tobacco barn in Virginia.

  • Abraham Lincoln is laid to rest in Oak Ridge Cemetery, outside Springfield, Illinois.

  • Civil war ends

  • Remaining Confederate forces surrender. The Nation is reunited as the Civil War ends. Over 620,000 Americans died in the war, with disease killing twice as many as those lost in battle. 50,000 survivors return home as amputees.

  • The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, is finally ratified. Slavery is abolished.