The Civil War Timeline

Harriet Tubman

Mar 9, 1820

Born in maryland she was one of the main conductors of the underground railroad

Missouri Compromise

Mar 4, 1821

Henry clay proposed a series of agreements stating Under these agreements, Maine was admitted as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. The rest of the Louisiana Territory was split into two parts. The dividing line was set at 36°30´north latitude. South of the line, slavery was legal. North of the line except in Missouri slavery was banned.

Santa Fe Trail

Mar 4, 1821

stretched 780 miles from Independence, Missouri, to
Santa Fe New Mexico. Groups of travlers travled in packs because they feared Native American attacks

San Felipe de Austin

Mar 4, 1821

Stephen F Ausitn established a colony where there was no Drinking, profanity, and no idling. This colony was made possible by provinding land grants (297 total) to settlers so they could start farms and thrive.

Mexico abolishes slavery

Mar 4, 1829

Mexico abolished slaver so when the colonists settled in texas they demanded them to set their slaves free

Abolititon

Mar 7, 1830

the movement to abolish slavery, became the most important of a series of reform movements in America.

The liberator

Mar 7, 1831

William Lloyd Garrison wrote it and it was about immediate emmacipation.

Nat Turners Rebellion

Aug 7, 1831

Turner and over 50 followers attacked four plantations and killed about 60 whites. Whites eventually captured and executed
many members of the group, including Turner.

Stephen F. Austin Goes to Jail

Mar 4, 1833

Santa Ana imprisioned him for stirring up the texas revolution.

Texas Revolution

Mar 4, 1835

Determined for the texas settlers to obey mexican law Santa Ana marched his soldiers towards San Antonio while Austin and his followers armed themselves. The rebels ended up winning even after a rough start and Sam Huston was elected president of the republic of texas

Oregon Trail

Mar 4, 1836

Marcus and Narcissa Whitman. Blazed the trail and By driving their wagon as far as Fort Boise they proved that wagons could
travel on the Oregon Trail.

Manifest Destiny

Mar 4, 1840

Phrase saying that the US is going to expand to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican and Native American territory.

Texas enters the United States

Mar 7, 1845

Mexicos government refused to settle boreder disputes with the united states so Polk sent US troops to texas and claimed it as their own.

The North Star

Mar 7, 1847

Fredrick Douglas wrote a newspaper about antislavery

TREATY OF GUADALUPE HIDALGO

Feb 2, 1848

This treaty was singed to end the Mexican American war and establishing the Rio Grande and not the Nueces River as the U.S.-Mexican border.

Mexican american war

Mar 7, 1848

1846-1848 The Mexican government was encouraging border raids and warning that any attempt at annexation would lead to war. The US wanted to keep expanding even though the North didn't want texas because it would be a slave state. WAR BROKE OUT but then ended with the treaty of GUADALUPE HIDALGO

Underground Railroad

Mar 9, 1849

Harriet Tubman was the most famous conductor. She helped black slaves to freedom in the North through safe houses and many dangerous journies

Compromise of 1850

Dec 9, 1849

slave state of Texas claimed the eastern half of the New Mexico Territory, where the issue of slavery had not yet been settled. To please the North, the compromise provided that California be admitted to the Union as a free state. To please the South, the compromise pro- posed a new and more effective fugitive slave law.

Figuritive Slave Act

Mar 9, 1850

fugitive slaves were not entitled to a trial by jury. Plus anyone con- victed of helping a fugitive was liable for a fine of $1,000 and imprisonment for up to six months.

Kansas Nebraska Act

Mar 9, 1850

Proposed by Stephen Douglas to help divide the Nebraska Territory into slavery and non slavery sections

Uncle Toms Cabin

Mar 9, 1852

Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that stressed slavery was not just a political but a moral struggle.

Dread Scott v Stanford

Mar 6, 1857

He was a slave who was taken into a free territory of illnois with his owner and took to court that he should be free but the court ruled against him

abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas Debates

Mar 9, 1858

Douglas believed in popular sovereignty. Lincoln, believed that slavery was immoral. Douglas won the senate seat but lincoln later went on to run for president.

John Browns raid/harpers ferry

Oct 16, 1859

John Brown lead 21 men into Hapers ferry Virgina and wanted to start a slave uprising but he got caught and was immediatly hung

Abrahman Lincoln becomes president

Mar 9, 1860

He said he would halt slave expansion but wouldn't interfere with current slaves in the south. Sitll the south hated him and he often didnt appear on ballots there.

Formation of the confederacy

Feb 9, 1861

Jefferson davis was president of the Confedercy (South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas.)

Attack on Fort Sumter

Apr 12, 1861

This was the beggining of the struggle between the North and the south. The north had the first victory and took fort sumter.

Battle at Antietam

Sep 17, 1862

Battled at a creek called Antietam. Bloodiest single day battle in history. Confederates managed to get into virginia.

Emancipation Proclation

Jan 1, 1863

Speech to state that slaves would be free even though it didn't directly affect the confedercy.

Battle of Bull Run

Mar 9, 1863

25 miles from Washington DC Stonewall Jackson lead the confederates to the first southern victory.

Conscription

Mar 9, 1863

a draft that forced men to serve in the army

Income TAx

Mar 9, 1863

a tax that takes a specified percentage of an individual’s income.

Battle at Vicksburg

Mar 9, 1863

Grant leading the Union began weakening the Confederates and managed to take Vicksburg which was the state capital.

Battle at Gettysburg

Jul 1, 1863

Near the town of gettysburg turned the tides of war when the north finally won the three day battle with Lee in charge

Gettysburg Address

Nov 9, 1863

Speech made to unify the UNITED STATES!!

Shermans March

Mar 9, 1864

Sherman began his march southeast through Georgia to the sea, creating a wide path of destruction. He was determined to wipe out general Lee

13th Ammendment

Mar 9, 1865

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly con- victed, shall exist within the United States.” (basically saying no slavery)

Surrender at Appomattox Court House

Apr 9, 1865

Grant paroled Lee’s soldiers and sent them home with their possessions and three days’ worth of rations. Within a month all remaining Confederate defiance ended. CIVIL WAR IS OVER! :)

Assination of Abraham Lincon

Apr 15, 1865

John Wilks Booth assinated Lincoln in Fords Theater because he was a southern sympathaiser.