VERY SIMPLE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

Slave Power

1787

Abolitionism

1830s

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

1852

Limitations of abolitionism

Before 1850s

Missouri Compromise

1820

Mexican-American War

1846–48

Wilmot Proviso

1846

Compromise of 1850

1850

Fugitive Slave Act

1850

Kansas-Nebraska Act

1854

Bleeding Kansas

1854–56

Republican Party formed

1854

Charles Sumner caning incident

1856

Dred Scott Case

1857

John Brown’s Raid

1859

Election of Lincoln

1860

Secession begins

Dec 1860 – Feb 1861

Formation of the Confederacy

1861

Fort Sumter

April 1861

Union advantages

1861

Confederate advantages

1861

Battle of Bull Run

July 1861

McClellan appointed

Sept 1861

Peninsular Campaign

1862

Seven Days Battles

June–July 1862

Battle of Antietam

Sept 1862

Emancipation Proclamation

1 Jan 1863

Black soldiers in Union Army

1863–65

Gettysburg

July 1863

Vicksburg

July 1863

Ulysses S. Grant appointed

1864

Sherman’s March to the Sea

Nov–Dec 1864

Election of 1864

Nov 1864

Appomattox Court House

10 April 1865

End of the Civil War

26 May 1865

Confederate economic collapse

1865

13th Amendment

Jan 1865

Freedmen’s Bureau

March 1865

Lincoln’s assassination

14 April 1865

Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction

1865

Black Codes

1865–66

Ku Klux Klan founded

1865

Civil Rights Act

1866

14th Amendment

June 1866

Reconstruction Acts

1867

15th Amendment

1870

Black political success

1868–76

Opposition to Reconstruction

1870s

Sharecropping system

After 1865

Slaughterhouse Cases

1873

U.S. v. Cruikshank

1876

Compromise of 1877

1877

Aftermath: Jim Crow era

After 1877

George White

1897–1901

Southern economy after Reconstruction

1867–73 & 1870