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The first issue of the Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison published a newspaper that saying that immediate emancipation of all slaves and gained a national reputation for being one of the most radical of American abolitionists. The Liberator accused the Compromise of 1850, it sentenced the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The Liberator was a force from the beginning and became the most leading newspaper. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was proposed by Henry Clay, and California was added as a free state. The Fugitive Slave Act was revised and the slave trade in Washington, D.C. was illegal. -
Uncle's Tom's Cabin published
The book published by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It showed how cruel slavery was in the South, and made people feel that this needs to change now. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was proposed by Stephen Douglas and passed by the U.S . It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. -
Dred Scott decision
Dred Scott was a slave own by a doctor, and they went into free land and went back to slave lands. So Scott made a trial saying that if you go into a free state your free. And it did not work so many Northerners were outraged by what had happened. -
James Buchanan sworn into office as the 15th president
James Buchanan became president in 1857 to 186. He was in the democratic party, and served immediately prior to the Civil War. -
John's Brown raid at Harpor's Ferry
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by abolitionist. John Brown's raid was a success, because no local citizens and federal troops defeated Brown's raid. This frightened southerners because it might start a war. -
Abe Lincoln elected president
Abe Lincoln (Republican) and Steven Douglas (Democrat) were both running for president. Abe won all of electoral votes in the south so he became president, so Steven Douglas went to be re-elected as senator of Illinois. -
South Carolina seceeds from the Union
With the election in 1860 of Abraham Lincoln, who ran on a message of keeping slavery to where it already is, South Carolina did not agree, so they pulled way from the Union. Making them the first state in the Union to separate. -
Battle at Fort Sumter begins
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War. The 7 states that separated from the union attacked the Fort. They attacked it because the were low on supplies. -
Battle of Bull Run
The Battle of Bull Run was the first major battle between the Union and the Confederate. The Confederate victory gave the South confidence and shocked many in the North, who realized the war would not be won as easily as they had hoped. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. As the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves were pronounced free". -
Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. General Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania in June 1863.The Union victory that stopped Confederate General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North. -
Shermans march to the sea
Sherman lead 62,000 Union troops, and marched in two columns 25 to 60 miles wide from Atlanta to the port of Savannah. They destroyed anything in their path. When they got met 10,000 Confederate troops who were defending the port. The Confederates abandon the port. along the way they destroyed every thing called slash-and-burn. -
The surrender at Appomatox court house.
General Lee Heading for the South Side Railroad at Appomattox Station, where food supplies awaited, the Confederates were cut off once again and nearly surrounded by Union troops near the small village of Appomattox Court House. Despite a final desperate attempt to escape, Lee’s army was trapped. General Lee surrendered his remaining troops to General Grant at the McLean House. -
Lincoln's Assasination
John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War.
