US History

  • Nat turners rebellion

    Nat Turner And 70 other slaves killed around 60 white people.
  • Uncle toms cabin

    Book that demonstrated how horrible slavery was. 2nd best seller in 19th century
  • Dred Scott vs Sanford

    Dred Scott sued for his legal rights but it was ruled that he is still a slave
  • Election of 1860

    Abraham Lincoln wins presidency
  • Fort Sumter

    Confederate troops fire the first shots that started the Civil war
  • confederation

    In 1861 the southern states formed the confederate states
  • Battle of Antietam

    Both sides meet in Maryland and fought
  • Emancipation proclamation

    Freed all slaves in January of 1863
  • 54th Massachusetts regime

    African Americans who fought in the war
  • Battle of Gettysburg

    Battle that prevented the south from entering the north. More than 50,000 died
  • Battle of Vicksburg

    South take control of Mississippi river
  • Gettysburg address

    President Lincoln dedicates the speech to the fallen soldiers
  • Election of 1864

    Lincoln gets re-elected
  • 13th amendment

    Abolished slavery
  • Lincoln assassination

    President Lincoln was assassinated
  • Jackie Robinson

    Breaks the color barrier in the MLB
  • Montgomery bus boycott

    Boycotts that lasted up until 1965 in Montgomery, Alabama
  • First civil rights act of 1957

    Established federal civil rights commission
  • Freedom ride

    Activist rode buses through the south.
  • March on Washington

    MLK delivers his “I have a dream” speech
  • Brown v Board of education

    Supreme outlaws segregation of public school
  • Civil rights act 1964

    Outlawed discrimination in public places
  • 24th amendment

    Banned voting tax
  • Freedom summer

    Effort to register African American voters in Mississippi
  • Voting rights act

    Allowed African Americans to vote
  • MLK assassination

    MLK was assassinated
  • Summer olympics

    John Carlos And Tommie Smith raises their fists in protest for the civil rights