Unit 5 Timeline

  • Fugitive Slave Act

    Fugitive Slave Act
    The United Congress passed The Fugitive Slave Act or the other name for it The Fugitive Slave Act, this happened on September 18, 1850
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugitive_Slave_Act_of_1850
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin Published

    This anti-slavery novel by the American author Harriet Beecher Stowe was published in 1852. This novel is called Uncle Tom's Cabin and according to Will Kaufman it helped lay the ground work for the Civil War.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom's_Cabin
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    On May 30, 1854 the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress. This act allowed people in Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether they want slaves or not within their borders. The Act served as a repel to the Missouri Compromise
  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860
    On the day of November 6, 1860 Democrat John C. Breckenridge, Constitutional Union candidate John Bell, and Democrat Stephen A. Douglas
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1860
  • Battle at Fort Sumter

    In the American Civil War the Battle of Fort Sumter was the first battle fought. The unfinished fort in the harbor at Charleston, South Carolina by Major Robert Anderson small union garrison as the intense Confederate artillery bombardment but had been proceeded by months of siege-like conditions.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Sumter
  • The Battle of Shiloh

    Battle of Pittsburgh Landing but known as The Battle of Shiloh in southwestern Tennessee was a major battle of the American Civil War
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shiloh
  • The Emancipation Proclamation

    The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. This was about putting the Union back together and not freeing the slaves but in order to win Lincoln needed to add more in his military so he made the Emancipation Proclamation.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation
  • Surrender at Appomattox

    On the morning of April 9, 1865 the battle of Surrender at Appomattox was one of the last battles fought in the American Civil War
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Appomattox_Court_House
  • Assassination of President Lincoln

    The American politician Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president and Lawyer of the United States until April 15, 1865 when he was assassinated.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln