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Unit 5 timeline
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Fugitive Slave Act
A law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, which gave south slave owners with legalized weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states. The law was very unpopular in the North and helped to convert many antislave owners to slave owning. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Antislavery supporters were disraged because, under the terms of the Missouri Compromise of 1820, slavery would have been outlawed in both territories. After months of debate, the Kansas Nebraska Act passed on May 30, 1854. -
Election of 1860
Abe Lincon was in the election against Douglas. the court was heavily divide, but Lincon won the election. -
Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter is a Third System masonry sea fort found at Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. The fort is best known as the site upon which the start of the American Civil War. -
Monitor vs.Merrimack
the battle ending in a stalemate, it was seen by both sides as an opportunity to raise war-time morale, especially since the ironclad ships were an exciting naval innovation that intrigued citizens. settled in a draw -
Battle of Shiloh
The two day battle at Shiloh produced more than 23,000 casualties and was the bloodiest battle. But Bloodier battles await -
Emancipation Proclaimation
Emancipation Proclamation actually freed few people. It did not apply to slaves in border states fighting on the Union side, nor did it affect slaves in southern areas already under Union control -
Surrender at Appomattox
Lee decided to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia.
Although not the end of the war, the surrender of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia set the stage for its conclusion. Through the lenient terms, Confederate troops were paroled and allowed to return to their homes while Union soldiers were ordered to refrain from overt celebration or taunting. -
The battle of Gettysberg
the main event was a dramatic infantry assault by 12,000 Confederates against the center of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge--Pickett's Charge. The charge was repulsed by Union rifle and artillery fire, at great losses to the Confederate army. -
The 13th Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime
