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First Issue of the Liberator
William Loyd Garrison took a stand against slavery by starting a newspaper called The Liberator. It was known as a antislavery newspaper. -
The Compromise of 1850- Passed
The Compromise of 1850 was proposed by Henry Clay a senator from Kentucky. California was added as a free state, and slavery would be illegal in Washington, D.C. It passed a new Fugitive Slave Act which said anyone who helped a fugitive would be fined or imprisoned. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin published
Uncle Tom's Cabin was a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that portrayed slavery as a cruel and brutal system. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act- passed
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was proposed by Stephen A. Douglas a senator from Illinois in 1854. Popular Sovereignty would decide if slavery would be allowed in Kansas and Nebraska Territories. It repealed the Missouri Compromise.North didn't agree to the act while the south did. -
James Buchanan Sworn into office as the 15th president
James Buchanan, a diplomat and former congressman, he was nominated for president by the democrat party. James Buchanan sworn into office. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was an enslaved African American bought by a Docter in Missouri. Antislavery lawyers helped Scott's status, but the case also gave the court a chance to rule on the question of slavery itself. -
John Brown's Raid at Harpers Ferry
John Brown led a raid, his target was a federal asend in a storage site for weapons. he hoped to arm enslaved African Americans and start a revolt against slave holders. -
Abraham Lincoln Elected President.
Abraham Lincoln was in the presidential election of 1860. He was in the republican party, and he wanted to leave slavery alone where it exsisted. -
South Carolina secedes from the union.
South Carolina said that they volunteered to come into the state so they can whenever back out of the state. -
Battle at Fort Sumster Begins.
Fort Sumster was a U.S fort on a island guarding charleston harbor. The fort was very low on supplies so they demanded supplies immediatily. Lincoln responded by sending an unarmed group to the fort with supplies. But then that never happened so they went into battle but could'nt do anything because they did'nt have supplies. -
Battle Of Bull Run
Union troops were forced to retreat to Washington, D.C. Mcdowell was replaced by McClellen. Confederates won the battle. -
Emancipation Proclamation.
Abraham lincoln made the Emancipation Proclamation to declare "that all people held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
Battle of Gettysburg
by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war[13] and is often described as the war's turning point. Union Maj. Gen. George Meade's Army of the Potomac defeated attacks by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, ending Lee's attempt to invade the North. -
Sherman's March to the sea.
From November 15 until December 21, 1864, Union General William T. Sherman led some 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. The purpose of this “March to the Sea” was to frighten Georgia’s civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause. -
The Surrender Of Appomattox Court House.
It was the final engagement of Confederate Army general Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. -
Lincoln's assassination.
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre as the American Civil War was drawing to a close.
