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1857 BCE
Dred Scott's Decision
Dred Scott, a slave who had lived with his owner in a free state before returning to the slave state of Missouri. the decision was the culmination of the case of Dred Scott Sanford, an event preceding the Civil War. In March 1857, the Supreme Court issued its decision in that case, which had been brought before the court.https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/dred-scott-case -
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The Underground Railroad
What Was the Underground Railroad?
The earliest mention of the Underground Railroad came in 1831 when slave Tice Davids escaped from Kentucky into Ohio and his owner blamed an “underground railroad” for helping Davids to freedom. In 1839, a Washington newspaper reported an escaped slave named Jim had revealed, under torture, his plan to go north following an “underground railroad to Boston.” -https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/underground-railroad#section_2 -
Compromise of 1850
the Compromise of 1850. It consisted of laws admitting California as a free state, creating Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of slavery and to be determined by popular sovereignty. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas is the term used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory -
Election of 1860
United States presidential election of 1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. -
Secession of Southerner states
South Carolina acted first, calling for a convention to secede from the Union. State by state, conventions were held, and the Confederacy was formed. Within three months of Lincoln's election, seven states had seceded from the Union. -
Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the first battle of the American Civil War. The intense Confederate artillery bombardment of Major Robert Anderson's small Union garrison in the unfinished fort in the harbor at Charleston, South Carolina, had been preceded by months of siege-like conditions. -
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Seven Days' Battle
even Days' Battles, (June 25–July 1, 1862), series of American Civil War battles in which a Confederate army under General Robert E. Lee drove back General George B. McClellan's Union forces and thwarted the Northern attempt to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond, Va. -
Battle of antietam
The batle of antietam, the bloodiest battle of the american civil war. september 17,1862 bwtween Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek. http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-antietam -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was made by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, as the country entered the third year of the Civil War. Declared that "all people held as slaves … should be , thenceforward, and forever free"—but it applied only to states designated as being in rebellion, not to the slave-holding border like Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/emancipation-proclamation -
South Surrenders
the most significant surrender to took place during the Civil War. The Confederacy's most respected commander, surrendered only his Army of Northern Virginia to Union Gen.this is a picture taken at the surrender of the south took place at Appomattox court house. -
Lincoln's Assassination
On the evening of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.
