The Civil War

By mcoury17

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Fugitive Slave Law

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Dred Scott Decision

  • Lincoln/Douglas Debates

  • John Brown @ Harper's Ferry

  • Election of Lincoln

  • South Carolina Secedes

  • Six other states secede from the Union.

  • Jefferson Davis is appointed as first President of the Confederate states.

  • Southern forces fire upon Fort Sumter, South Carolina. The Civil War has formally begun.

  • Battle of Bull Run

  • Battle of Shiloh

  • Seven Days Battles

  • Battle of Antietam

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

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Lee defeats Joseph Hooker at Chancellorsville, VA

  • Jackson gets shot by his own men

  • Grant at Vicksburg

  • Gettysburg

  • Grant vs. Lee in Virginia

  • Sherman's March to the Sea

  • the end of the Confederacy was near: Grant was approaching Richmond from the North, Sherman from the South

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

  • farmhouse near Appomattox Courthouse, VA, Lee and Grant met to arrange the Confederate surrender

  • Lincoln is assassinated at Ford's Theatre.

  • John Wilkes Booth is captured.