Civil war

  • Fugitive Slave Act

    Fugitive Slave Act
    Act that caused all Slaves to be returned to their masters in all the U.S. This causes tension between the North and South.
  • Dred Scott Case

    Dred Scott Case
    The Supreme Court rules that African Americans are property and not people.
  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860
    Abraham Lincoln wins the race and this leads to South Carolina seceding from the Union. Which causes the remaining Slave States to secede.
  • South Carolina Succeeds

    South Carolina Succeeds
    South Carolina succeeds from the Union which becomes the first major event in the Civil War.
  • Fort Sumter

    Fort Sumter
    On April 12-14 in near Charleston, South Carolina, P.G.T. Beauregard and the Confederacy open fire on Robert Anderson and the Union. Fort Sumter was a Union fort in Confederacy territory. This battle is the first battle of the Civil War.
  • Battle of Shiloh

    Battle of Shiloh
    Ulysses S. Grant along with the Union fight off Albert Sidney Johnson, Pierre G.T. Beauregard and the Confederacy in Southwestern Tennessee for the Union to push into Northern Mississippi.
  • Second Battle of Bull Run

    Second Battle of Bull Run
    Robert E. Lee fight John Pope and the Union in Prince William County, Virginia caused a huge blow to the Union's morale with big casualties.
  • Battle Of Antietam

    Battle Of Antietam
    On September 1862 near Sharpsburg Maryland and Antietam creek. Georgre B McCllean and his six Union Crops Commanders which were; Josoph Hooker,Edwin V. Sumner, Fitz John Porter, William B Franklin, Ambrose E.Burnside, and Joseph K Manfield led the Union Attacks. They led the attacks against the Confederacy's Corps and their commanders which were Robert E. Lee,Stonewall Jackson, James Longstreet,and J.E.B. Stuart. Antitam is a turning point for the Union because the Emancipation Proclamtion.
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation
    Abrham Lincoln frees all the Southern Slaves
  • Battle of Chancellorsville

    Battle of Chancellorsville
    In Spotsylvania County, Virginia Robert E. Lee divides his army to make an attack on Joseph Hooker and the Union. This causes major casualties for the Union
  • Battle of Gettysburg

    Battle of Gettysburg
    Major General Geprge Meade and the Union defeats Lee and the Confederacy in the bloodiest battle of the war. Which ends being a major turning point.
  • Battle of Chickamauga

    Battle of Chickamauga
    Braxton Bagg and the Confederacy fight off William Rosecrans and the Union to the Unions significant defeat and the second most casualties in the war.
  • Battle of Atlanta

    Battle of Atlanta
    William T. Sherman defeats John B. Hood and the Confederates for the control of Atlanta
  • Sherman's March to the Sea

    Sherman's March to the Sea
    William T. Sherman and the Union army starts from Atlanta Georgia and travel all the way to Savannah and in between destroy anything in their paths.
  • Battle of Nashville

    Battle of Nashville
    George H. Thomas and the Union fight John Bell Hood and the confederacy to destroying the Confederacy in Nashville.
  • Appomattox Courthouse

    Appomattox Courthouse
    Robert E. Lee surrendors to Ulysses S. Grant and the Union wins the war.