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Unit 5 Timeline
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Fugitive Slave Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugitive_Slave_Act_of_1850
Part of Comprimise of 1850
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Kansas Nebraska Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas%E2%80%93Nebraska_Act
Established territories of Kansas and Nebraska.
Was designed by Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois. -
Eleciton of 1860
http://www.ushistory.org/us/32d.asp
Lincoln(republican) Breckinridge(southern democratic) Bell(constituational union) Douglas(Nortehrn Democratic) -
Battle at Fort Sumter (civil war begins)
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/fort-sumter.html
General Beaureguard was commander of confederate forces.
Major Anderson surrendered the next day. -
The Monitor vs. The Merrimack
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/389515/Battle-of-the-Monitor-and-Merrimack
The harbor of the James River
Also called the Battle of Hampton Roads
Interpeted as a win for the Monitor
April 11, 1862 these boats faced off again but no shots. -
The Battle of Shiloh
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/shiloh.html
aka Battle of Pittsburg Landing
Confederate surprise attack in SW Tennessee
23,000 Casulties -
The Emancipation Proclimation
http://www.nps.gov/ncro/anti/emancipation.html
Used to cripple Confederacy and end slavery
March 4,1861, Innagural address. -
The Battle of Gettysburg
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/gettysburg.html
Robert E. Lee surrounds Gettysburg Penusylvania
51,000 troops died -
The Thirteenth Admendment
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.html
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." -
Surrender at Appomattox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Appomattox_Court_House
Final egagement of the Civil War
Surrender documents signed in house of Wilmer Mclean
