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UNIT FIVE
The Civil War
EXPLORING CONTEXT
timeline
1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a series of 5 bills negotiated by Henry Clay, temporarily easing political tensions over slavery.
1854
The Kansas Nebraska Act essentially repealed the Missouri Compromise (1820), increasing tensions over the growth of slavery.
1859
Violent abolitionist John Brown overtook the U.S. arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia in order to initiate a slave revolt. The raid was ultimately a failure.
1860
Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election on a platform on preventing the extension of slavery. Seven states left the Union as a result.
1861
The Battle of Fort Sumter marks the first exchange of gunfire during the Civil War. After the Confederate victory 4 additional states joined the Confederacy.
1863
President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring that “all persons held as slaves” in rebellous states “are, and henceforward shall be free.”
1865
April 9, 1865 General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, ending the Civil War.
1865
April 14, 1865 Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth assassinates President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C.
- Growth of Slavery
- Compromise of 1850
- Fugitive Slave Act
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Bleeding Kansas
- Bleeding Sumner
- John Brown
- Dred Scott
- Election of 1860
- Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
- Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
- Fort Sumter
- The Confederacy vs. The Union
- Border States
- Battle of Antietam
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Draft Riots of 1863
- Andersonville Prison Camp
- Battle of Gettysburg
- Total War and Sherman's March to Sea
- Election of 1864
- Surrender at Appomattox
- Lincoln's Assassination
- Civil Rights Act 1866
- Radical Republicans
- Military Reconstruction
- Johnson's Impeachment
- Freedmen's Bureau
- Reconstruction Amendments: 13, 14, 15
- Carpet Bagers and Scalawags
- KKK
- Black Codes
- Sharecropping
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