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Unit 5
This timeline will be about the events that took place between 1850, and 1865 -
The Fugitive Slave Act
The act that requires citizens to help catch slaves who are running to the north to escape their slavery. This act was passed as part of the compromise of 1850. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugitive_Slave_Act_of_1850 -
Uncle Tom's Cabin is Published
Uncle Tom's Cabin is a book about a kindhearted slave. This book was very anti-slavery, and to some, it laid the groundwork for the civil war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom's_Cabin -
The Kansas Nebraska Act
Left it up to the states of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery. http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/kansas.htm -
The Election of 1860
Lincoln became the president of the United States. https://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-election-of-1860 -
The Battle of Fort Sumpter
Confederates lead an attack on the Union Fort Sumter. The Union unfortunately lost the battle. http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/fort-sumter.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/ -
The Battle of Shiloh
The battle at Shiloh was a confederate ambush on the federal troops. It doesn't seem so important, because there were lots of ambushes during the civil war. But the battle of Shiloh was the bloodiest battle of the civil war. Only a two day fight, it resulted in more than 23,000 casualties (deaths). http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/shiloh.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/ -
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation shut down the fugitive slave act, which states that any slave that ran away would have to be returned to their owner in the south. The Proclamation said that if they can escape, then they are legally free; as long as the slave did so by escaping to fight for the federalist government. -
The Battle of Gettysburg
Considered to be the most important engagement of the civil war, The Battle of Gettysburg had the federalist army surrounded by the confederates. General Robert E. Lee lead his army from Virginia into Pennsylvania to clash with the federalists. He didn't know that he would draw it back to Virginia only three days later.http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/battle-of-gettysburg -
The Thirteenth Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment was passed after the civil war, and it bans slavery, or forced servitude anywhere in the United States. https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=40 -
Surrender at Appomattox
After the Battle of Gettysburg, General Lee's men were very tired, and couldn't fight very well. So he sent letters to General Grant, the federalist leader, negotiating the surrender of his army. They both agreed to meet at the courthouse in the town Appomattox. Soon (and by soon I mean two and a half hours later) the bloody civil war neared its end. -
Lincoln Assasination
Remember when I said that the war NEARED its end? Yeah, that doesn't mean it was over. Tensions were still high, especially on the confederates' side of things. One confederate, named John Wilkes Booth, who was was an actor and confederate supporter, quietly crept into where President Abraham Lincoln and his wife were watching a stage comedy, and shot him in the back of the head. Lincoln died the next day. http://www.history.com/topics/abraham-lincoln-assassination -
The Moniter vs. The Merrimack
A battle between two ironclads (ships with metal armor on them so cannon fire wasn't a very big deal). The Union's Moniter vs. The Confederate's Merrimack. No ship could beat the other, so they called it a draw. http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/battle-of-hampton-roads
