Create a timeline placing at least 7 events on the line. Each event needs to have a connection to the Civil War. Each event should have an image with a short description of the event. The timeline needs to be correctly spaced. You may use events before and after the Civil War that were effects of the war, as well as events during the Civil War.
1. 1857 - Dred Scott Decision: The Supreme Court rules that African Americans, whether free or enslaved, could not be considered American citizens, fueling tensions between the North and South.
2. 1861 - Battle of Fort Sumter: The opening engagement of the Civil War, where Confederate forces bombarded a Union fort, leading to the start of the conflict.
3. 1862 - Emancipation Proclamation: President Abraham Lincoln issues the proclamation freeing all slaves in Confederate-held territory, shifting the focus of the war to include the abolition of slavery.
4. 1863 - Battle of Gettysburg: The largest battle of the Civil War, marking a turning point in favor of the Union forces and leading to the Confederacy's retreat.
5. 1865 - Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: President Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, just days after the end of the Civil War.
6. 1865 - Thirteenth Amendment: Ratified, officially abolishing slavery in the United States.
7. 1877 - Reconstruction Era Ends: The last federal troops are removed from the South, signaling the end of Reconstruction and the beginning of the Jim Crow era.