Unit 9 Timeline AP U.S. History

By Ashanti C

  • Lincoln-Douglas debates

    Lincoln-Douglas debates
    A series of seven debates. The two argued the important issues of the day like popular sovereignty, the Lecompton Constitution and the Dred Scott decision. Douglas won these debates, but Lincoln's position in these debates helped him beat Douglas in the 1860 presidential election.

  • Seven Seceding states form the Confederate States of America

    Seven Seceding states form the Confederate States of America
    1860 South Carolina secede from the Union thinking the "sectional party" picked a president who was harmful to slavery. 1861 there were seven states that had seceded the Union; S Carolina, AL, Missi, FL, Georgia, Louisiana, and TX. The upper south-Virginia, N Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas- did not believe Lincoln's presidency was reason for seceding. February 4, Delegates met in Montgomery Alabama to establish Confederate States of America.

  • Final Emancipation Proclamation

    Final Emancipation Proclamation
    On January 1, 1863, Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation, which declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebel states “are, and henceforward shall be free.”

  • 1. Union enacts conscription 2. New York City draft riots

    1. Union enacts conscription 2. New York City draft riots
    1. During the Civil War, the U.S. Congress passes a conscription act that produces the first wartime draft of U.S. citizens in American history. During the Civil War, the government of the Confederate States of America also enacted a compulsory military draft.
    2. The most bloodiest domestic disorders in America which showed how divided north was on admins conduct of war.

  • Alabama sunk by Union warship

    Alabama sunk by Union warship
    Flew confederate flags but manned by British, picked up weapons in Portugal, The Alabama sunk 34 Union warships. The great destroyer was finally sunk off the coast of France.

  • 1. Hampton Roads Conference 2. Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox 3. Lincoln assassinated 4. Thirteenth Amendment ratified

    1. Lincoln attempted and failed to negotiate a settlement with the Confederacy in which the rebellious states could be readmitted if they adopted the 13th amendment.
    2. Lee's troops justified Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation; surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox Court House.
    3. John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln to death in Ford's Theater.
    4. The Senate, responding to an active abolitionist petition campaign, passed the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery in the United States.