POST-VISIT ACTIVITY
TIMELINE
Objective: Students will create a classroom timeline from 1850-1865.
Subject: Social Studies
Materials: Construction paper, markers, wire or yarn to hang timeline.
Procedure:
- Have students create a timeline putting in important events and people from 1850-1865.
- Cut construction paper into rectangles with each year that you wish to show events. Place these
above the timeline.
- Place important people and events on your timeline.
Suggestions:
1850 - Compromise of 1850; Fugitive Slave Law
1852 - Uncle Tom's Cabin published by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
1854 - Kansas-Nebraska Act
April, 1856 - Booker T. Washington born.
1857 - Dred Scott Decision
1859 - John Brown attacks Harper's Ferry and is executed.
November, 1860 - Lincoln elected 16th president.
December, 1860 - SC secedes from the Union.
January-February, 1860 - Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas secede.
April, 1861 - Lincoln declares insurrection; blockade of Southern ports begins.
April - May, 1861- Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina secede.
July, 1861- Union defeated at Bull Run. James Burroughs dies.
March, 1862 - battle of Monitor and Merrimac
September, 1862 - Antietam, highest casualties of the war
January, 1863 - Emancipation Proclamation
May, 1863 - Vicksburg
July, 1863 - Gettysburg
March, 1864 - Grant named commander-in-chief of the Union forces.
November and December, 1864 - Sherman's March to the Sea
November, 1864 - Lincoln reelected.
April, 1865 - Appomattox, end of Civil War
April, 1865 - Lincoln assassinated.
April-June 1865 - Slaves freed.