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The First issue of the Liberator
It was a newspaper that was taking a stand against slavery and trying to spread the newspaper. -
Compromise of 1850
California became a knew state. The slave trade, but not slavery itself, would be illegal in the Washington D.C. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin Published
This is a book talking about a slave named Tom. He was owned by a Simon Legree. Simon didn't like Toms kindness and he eventually beat tom to death. So the north didn't understand how bad it was to be a slave, but know they know the horrors -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen A. Douglas introduced a bill to settle the issue of slavery in the territories. Both were north of 36,30' N latitude that limited slavery. -
James Buchanan sworn into offia as the 15 president
He was a diplomat and a former member of congress. Buchanan tried to appeal to the southern whites. The Democratic Party endorsed the idea of popular sovereignty. -
Dred Scott decision
He was an enslaved African American bought by a doctor in Missouri a slave state. He was born a slave. The case was to have blacks live free. -
James Browns raid at Harper's Ferry
Brown staunch abolitionist, and a group of his supporters left their farmhouse hide-out and on route to Harpers Ferry. Descending on the town in the hours of October 17th, Brown and his men captured prominent citizens and seized the federal armory and arsenal of the troops. So after that Brown was hanged for what he did. -
Abraham Lincoln elected as President
Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States over a divided Democratic Party, and becoming the first Republican to win the presidency. Lincoln received only 40 percent of the popular vote but handily defeated the three other candidates: Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Constitutional Union candidate John Bell, and Northern Democrat Stephen Douglas, a U.S. senator for Illinois. -
Battle of Fort Sumter begins
near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War. Following declarations of secession by seven Southern states, South Carolina demanded that the US Army abandon its facilities in Charleston Harbor. -
1st Battle of Bull Run
It was the Battle of First Manassas was fought. It was a horrible battle and a lot people died in it.This was the first major battle of the American Civil War. -
Battle of Gettysburg
It was considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. After the great victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville, General Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania in late June 1863. On July 1, the advancing Confederates clashed with the Union’s Army of the Potomac, commanded by General George G. Meade, at the crossroads town of Gettysburg. -
Sherman's March to the sea
Sherman's March to the Sea was the name commonly given to the military Savannah Campaign in the American Civil War, and the Major General William Tecumseh of the Union Army -
Surrender at Appoinattox court house
Robert E. Lee , his men weak and exhausted, he realized he was surrounded there was little choice but to consider the surrender of his Army to General Grant. After a series of notes between the two leaders, they agreed to meet on April 9, 1865, at the house of Wilmer McLean in the village of Appomattox Courthouse. The meeting lasted approximately two and one-half hours and at its conclusion the bloodiest conflict in the nation's history neared its end of the Civil War -
Lincoln assasination
John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate , fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theater 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, and ending the American Civil War. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued it, the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its awful third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." Then the slaves would be free. -
South California secedes from the union
It becomes a free state. It also becomes a union state as well.
