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Time Line "The American Civil War"
A timeline of events leading up to and including the Civil War (just the most important events!)
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Mayflower arrives with pilgrims at Plymouth

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Massachusetts Bay Colony founded
->precursor of today ´s state of Massachusetts

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1630 - Boston
1632 - Province of Maryland
1636 - Connecticut Colony, Colony of Rhode Island, Harvard College
1637 - New Haven Colony

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New England Confederation created

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1665 - The Duke ´s Laws are issued, set of guidlines of English rule in Colony of New York
1669 - Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina
1672 - Blue Laws (Connecticut)

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Virginia Slave Codes of 1705 passed, regulation of interactions between slaves and citizens

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Colony of Virginia passes act to deal with slave conspiracies

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- Plantation Act - encourage immigration to colonies, regularize colonial naturalization procedures
- South Carolina enacts Negro Act of 1740 - limit freedom of slaves

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-Gathering of nine colonies
-rejected the Stamp Act

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-Boston Tea Party
-Radical American patriots dressed as Indians raided a British ship in the port of Boston and destroyed 342 boxes of tea

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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-Declaration of independence
-Separated from the United Kingdom

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The Republic of Vermont, an independent state at that time, prohibits slavery in its constitution

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-The independent States became one big State
-Federal republic

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-missouri wanted to become a slave state but this triggered a big debate
-Missouri Compromise: line was drawn between slave states and free states

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- Nat Turner and other slaves rised up in killed around 60 white people
- a big insurrection started all over the country, the bloodiest was Nat Turners in Virginia

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-the Wilmot Proviso: if passed it would have outlawed slavery in territory acquired by the United States as a result of war
-it wasn´t established but nevertheless fueled a debate

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- admitted California as a free state
- strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act (free slaves had to be retourned to the South)
- North and South argued over Mexican session
- slave trade banned in Washington D.C

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- Dred Scott tried to sue his freedom
- Supreme Court decided slaves were property and didn't  have the same rights as humans
-> territorial limitations on slavery  => polarization

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-1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act
-1855 war between pro- and anti-slavery
-fall 1855 John Brown came to Kansas
-1856 Brown and supporters killed  Fire pro-slavery Settlers
-1859 parties  forged fragile peace

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- Je and 19 others led a raid on the federal armory in Virginia
- distributed the confiscated arms amongst the slaves => armed insurrection

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Abraham Lincoln's Election

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South Carolina secedes

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more Southern states secede
-> formation of the Confederacy

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Battle of Fort Sumter
Lincoln sent new supplies to federal forts in seceded states
-> Confederacy rejects and opens fire
-> federal troops surrender
Beginning of the Civil War

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First Battle of Bull Run
battle in Virginia, won by Confederacy

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Start of many battles:
- Shiloh in Tennessee
- Gaines' Mill
- Second Manassas
- Fredericksburg in Virginia
- Antietam in Maryland

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Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln orders the freeing of many slaves

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Battle of Gettysburg, North starts winning the war

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Ulysses S. Grant becomes chief of all Union armies

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Grant subdues Robert E. Lee (chief of Northern Virginia's army) at Appomattox

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Union armies and river fleets are defeating several Confederate armies in the states west of Apalachian Mountain chain

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- General William Tecumseh Sherman destroys the economic infratsructure of Georgia and South Carolina-
- General George Thomas destroyed the Confederacy's Army of Tennessee at the battle of Nashville

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Assassination of Lincoln

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- all principal Confederate armies surrendered

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- the Union captures the fleeing Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Georgia
-> end of war