Civil War Timeline
1850- Compromise of 1850
1854- The Kansas-Nebraska Act
1857- Dread Scott Case decided
November 1860- Abraham Lincoln elected
December 1860- South Carolina Succeeded from the Union
April 1861- Fort Sumter attacked
April 1861- Anaconda Plan created
September 17, 1862- Battle of Antietam
April 6, 1862- Battle of Shiloh
September 21, 1862- Emancipation Proclamation
June 28, 1863- Battle of Gettysburg
April 9, 1865- Robert E. Lee surrenders
photos courtesy of (in order): http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/lincolns-political-landscape/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/lincolns-political-landscape/
http://usslave.blogspot.com/2011/05/dred-scotts-fight-for-freedom.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Abraham_Lincoln_head_on_shoulders_photo_portrait.jpg
http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/9606
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-civilwar/4637
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda_Plan
http://www.history.army.mil/StaffRide/Antietam/Overview.htm
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/04/04/battle-of-shiloh-births-a-great-american/
http://civilwardailygazette.com/2013/01/01/lincoln-issues-the-emancipation-proclamation/
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Battle_of_Gettysburg,_by_Currier_and_Ives.png
http://www.watchmenpastors.org/lost-epsidoe-for-december-25/
http://usslave.blogspot.com/2011/05/dred-scotts-fight-for-freedom.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Abraham_Lincoln_head_on_shoulders_photo_portrait.jpg
http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/9606
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-civilwar/4637
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda_Plan
http://www.history.army.mil/StaffRide/Antietam/Overview.htm
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/04/04/battle-of-shiloh-births-a-great-american/
http://civilwardailygazette.com/2013/01/01/lincoln-issues-the-emancipation-proclamation/
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Battle_of_Gettysburg,_by_Currier_and_Ives.png
http://www.watchmenpastors.org/lost-epsidoe-for-december-25/