Civil war timeline.

  • Missouri Compromise

    The Missouri compromise created an imbalance between the number of pro/anti-slavery states until the admission of Maine as an anti-slavery state. After becoming a pro-slavery state, it allowed for an imaginary line to be drawn dividing the former Louisiana Territory into pro and anti-slavery divisions. This was ended after the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
  • Fugitive slave law

    A law go as a component of the Compromise of 1850, which furnished southern slaveholders with lawful weapons to catch slaves who had gotten away to the free states.
  • The Compromise of 1850

    The Compromise of 1850 was a bundle of five separate bills go by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political showdown amongst slave and free states in regards to the status of regions procured amid the Mexican–American War
  • The Kansas-Nebraska Act

    The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 permitted residents in the Kansas and Nebraska regions to choose locally whether to permit subjugation.
  • Dred Scott Supreme Court decision

    Sandford, legitimate case in which the U.S. supreme Court on March 6, 1857, decided that a slave ,Dred Scott, who had dwelled in a free state and domain was not accordingly qualified for his opportunity; that African Americans were not and would never be nationals of the United States.
  • Raid on Harpers Ferry

    On the night of October 16, 1859 John Brown, a staunch abolitionist, and a gathering of his supporters forgot their farmhouse conceal on the way to Harpers Ferry. Brown and his men caught unmistakable natives and grabbed the government ordnance and munititions stockpile. Chestnut had trusts that the nearby slave populace would join the assault and through the attack's prosperity weapons would be provided to slaves and opportunity warriors all through the nation
  • Election of 1860

    The 1860 presidential race set four hopefuls against each other.
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    Abraham Lincoln

    He is the sixteenth President of the United States; spared the Union amid the American Civil War and liberated the slaves; was killed by Booth
  • Battle of Antietam

    Clash of Antietam, additionally called Battle of Sharpsburg, (September 17, 1862), a definitive engagement in the American Civil War (1861–65) that stopped the Confederate progress on Maryland with the end goal of increasing military supplies.
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    The Emancipation Proclamation was an official request issued on January 1, 1863, by President Lincoln liberating slaves in all segments of the United States not then under Union control.
  • The Battle of Gettyburg

    The Battle of Gettysburg, fought in July 1863, was a Union victory that stopped Confederate General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North.