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Unit 5 Timeline

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  • Fugitive Slave act

    Fugitive Slave act
    The Fugitive Slave act requires citizens to help catch runaway slaves.

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin Published

    Uncle Tom's Cabin Published
    It helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War.

  • Kansas-Nebraska act

    Kansas-Nebraska act
    The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.

  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860
    Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated southern democrat Stephen A. Johnson, and a constitutional Union candidate John Bell

  • Battle at Fort Sumter

    Battle at Fort Sumter
    It was the first battle of the Civil War. Took place in Charleston South Carolina

  • The Monitor vs The Merrimack

    The Monitor vs The Merrimack
    Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack, also called Battle of Hampton Roads, in the American Civil War, naval engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, a harbor at the mouth of the James River, notable as history's first duel between ironclad warships and the beginning of a new era of naval warfare.

  • The battle of Shiloh

    The battle of Shiloh
    The battle of Shiloh also known as the battle of the Pittsburgh landing was in Tennessee River.

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

    The Emancipation Proclamation
    The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863.

  • The Battle of Gettysburg

    The Battle of Gettysburg
    The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War.

  • The Thirteenth Amendment

    The Thirteenth Amendment
    The 13th Amendment to the Constitution declared that "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

    Surrender at Appomattox
    With his army surrendered his men weak and exhausted Robert E Lee realized that there was no choice but to surrender.

  • Assassination of President Lincoln

    Assassination of President Lincoln
    Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865