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Abraham Lincoln elected president
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, and was the first republican president to win. -
Battle at Fort Sumter
It had lasted two days and it started the American Civil War. -
Lincoln orders blockade of the south
Lincoln ordered the blockade to stop the import of supplies, goods, and arms from and to the Confederate states. This blockade went untill 1865. -
Lincoln orders blockade of the south
The Union blockade took place during the American Civil War, when the Union Navy maintained a strenuous effort on the Atlantic and Gulf Coast. -
1st Battle of Bull Run
It was the first major land battle of the civil war that took place in Virginia. The purpose of this battles was to throw out the confederate army to stop the war all together. -
Monitor vs. Virginia naval battle
Virginia fought to a draw off Hampton Roads, Virginia. The ships pounded each other all morning but their armor plates easily deflected the cannon shots, signaling a new era of steam-powered iron ships. -
Battle of Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing and it was also a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War -
Battle at Chattanooga
Tennessee into several small commands in an attempt to complicate Federal operations. It found the Confederates entrenched on the opposite side of the river along the banks and atop Cameron Hill. -
7 Days Campaign
The Seven Days Battles was a series of six major battles over the seven days from June 25 to July 1, 1862 -
2nd Battle of Bull Run
This battle was much bigger then the first one and it had lasted longer and it also yhe Pope launched a series of assaults against Jackson's position along an unfinished railroad grade. The attacks were repulsed with heavy casualties on both sides. -
Antietam
It was the bloodest war in history and over and about 22,000 people had died from this war and it had causes many ingures and it was the union. The confederate has lost this war. -
Emancipation Proclamation issued
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Lincoln declaring that all the slave in the confederate territories be free. -
Battle at Chancellorsville
The campaign pitted Union Army Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's Army of the Potomac against an army less than half its size. -
Emancipation Proclamation issued
Lincoln understood that the Federal government's power to end slavery was limited by the Constitution, which before 1865, committed the issue to individual states. -
Battle of Gettysburg
It was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War and is often described as the war's turning point. -
Siege of Vicksburg
General Grant forced the confederates out of vicksburg into other lines of defense around the city. It was one of the last magor battles in Vicksburg. The Confederate surrender following the siege at Vicksburg is sometimes considered. The final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. -
Gettysburg Address
It is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, one of the best-known in American history.[1] It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg. -
Ulysses S. Grant takes over the Union Army
Ulysses S. Grant was the most successful Union or Confederate generals during the American Civil War -
13th Amendment passed
During the secession crisis, but prior to the outbreak of the Civil War, the majority of slavery-related bills had protected slavery. The United States had officially ceased slave importation in 1807 after the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves and the British Slave Trade Act 1807 -
Abraham Lincoln shot and killed
He was assainated by John Wilkes Booth, and was the first American president to be assingnated. It took place after the confederate General Robert E. Lee to Ulysseys S. Grant. -
Sherman captures Atlanta
President Abraham Lincoln's re–election in November, and final Confederate defeat seven months later were both virtually assured after Atlanta's fall on September 2, 1864. -
Abraham Lincoln re-elected
He had gotten re-ecected for his wonderful work and for helping so much in the wars and just simply being a great president. Anyways on to the important stuff....... In 1864, Lincoln faced many challenges to his presidency. The war was now in its fourth year, and many were questioning if the South could ever be fully conquered militarily. -
Sherman begins march to the sea
Also known as the Savannah campaing. Union soldiers captured the city of Antlanta, Georgia right down to Savannah port. They Destroyed industrial, infrastructure, millitary targets, and citizens property. It lasted untill Dec. 21, 1864. -
Savannah, GA falls to the Union
It gives away and the union completty takes over Savannah, GA. In order to stop the supplys for the conferdrates. -
Robert E. Lee surrenders
The Battle of Appomattox Court House, he fought on the morning of April 9, 1865, was the final engagement of Confederate States Army General, Northern Virginia, before it surrendered. -
Union Army moves in and occupies Richmond, VA
The union caused them to move office into Lynchburg for about five days.
