unit 5 timeline

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  • Fugitive Slave Act

    Fugitive Slave Act
    This act allowed you to capture Fugitive Slaves. It allowed you to become a hunter
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin Published

    Uncle Tom's Cabin Published
    This was a novel about anti-slavery and it sold about 300,000. It was created by a women who is named Harriet Beecher Stowe. This book helped how it left ground work for the civil war.
  • Kansas -Nebraska act

    Kansas -Nebraska act
    This act passed by the congress. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery with their borders.
  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860
    There were four people running for presidentail, which were Abraham Lincoln, John C. Breckinridge, Jon Bell, and Stephen A. Dougles. And this served of the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War.
  • Batttle at Fort Sumter

    Batttle at Fort Sumter
    The Battle of Fort Sumter (April 12–14, 1861) was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, 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.
  • The Monitor vs. The Merrimack

    The Monitor vs. The Merrimack
    It was also called Battle of Hampton Roads. it was the most noted ad arguably most important naval battle of the American Civil War.
  • Battle of Shiloh

    Battle of Shiloh
    This battle was also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the western Theater of the American Civil War.
  • The Emancipation Proclamation

    The Emancipation Proclamation
    It was a prsidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln. it changed the federal legal status of more than 3 million enslaved persons in the designated areas of the Sourh from "slave" to "free"
  • The Battle of Gettysburg

    The Battle of Gettysburg
    the battle of gettysburg is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. After a great vicory 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. The next day saw even heavier fighting, as the Confederates attacked the Federals on bo
  • The Thirteenth Amendment

    The Thirteenth Amendment
    It was ratified on December 6, 1865. the act abolished slavery in the United States and provides that "Neither slavery not involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of the part shall have been duty convicted, shall exist within the United States.
  • Surrender at Appomattox

    Surrender at Appomattox
    The Meet was between General Grant amry and Robert E. Lee army. Robert E. Lee choose to surrender to General grant. The meet lasted about two to one-half hours and at its conclusion the bloodiest conflict in the nation's history neared its end.