Block D, Table 5Katherine Chung, Brian Yoo,

Amy Cho, Charles Kang

John Wilkes Booth is born on May 10, 1838

George McClellan graduates from West Point

July 1, 1846

John C. Calhoun presented his view

openly to the Senate that the southern states had

the right to leave the Union if that were

necessary for their own protection

March 4, 1850,

Millard Fillmore become president after President Taylor’s death.

July of 1850

Dred Scott sued for his freedom in 1847

Stephen A. Douglas draft the Compromise of 1850

September 1850

Henry Clay proposed a plan for a compromise over slavery known as the

Compromise of 1850.

September 1850

Harriet Tubman goes to meet

husband after

years of helping

runaways.

Fall of 1851

John Brown is hanged. December 2, 1859

Harriet Beecher Stowe

published Uncle Tom’s Cabin May

1852

Battle of Fort Sumter

Starts: April 1861First Battle of Bull Run

Starts: July 1861

Battle of Pea Ridge Starts: March 6–8,

1862

Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack

Starts: March 8-9, 1862

Jefferson Davis ordered

General P.G.T.

Beauregard to demand that Fort Sumter

surrender April

10,1861

The Peninsular Campaign

Starts: March 1862

Battle of Shiloh

Starts: April 6, 1862

Capture of New Orleans

Starts: April 25, 1862

Second Battle of Bull Run

Starts: August 1862

Battle of Antietam

Starts: September 17, 1862

Battle of Fredericksburg

Starts: December 1862

Battle of Chanceloorsville

Starts: April 30 1863

The Siege of Vicksburg Starts: May 1863

Joseph Hooker resigned

June 28, 1863

Battle of Gettysburg

Starts: July 1863

Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson

Died May 1863 shot by his own side accidentally.

The Battle of Chickamauga

Starts: September 19,

1863

The Siege of

Petersburg Starts:

June, 1864

Battle of Spotsylvania

Starts: May 1864

Battle of the Wilderness

Starts: May 5, 1864

Battle of Cold Harbor

Starts: June 1864

The Capture of Atlanta

Starts: September 1864

Battle at Nashville

Starts: December 15, 1864

William T. Sherman entered Savannah and took control of it without a fight.

This event showed how much the

Southerners feared Sherman.

December 21, 1864

Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union at

March 1865

Abraham Lincoln

Shot in April 14, 1865

Ulysses S. Grant retired

from the White House

March 4,1877

Clara Barton forms red cross

May 1881

Dorthea Dix dies

July 1887

William A. Lloyd last issue of the Liberator is published

December 29, 1865