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Battle at Chancellorsville
Significance- This battle was considered by many historians to be Lee’s greatest victory. At the same time, the South lost one of its greatest strategic minds with the death of Stonewall Jackson.
Winner- Confederate
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Abraham Lincoln elected president
Abraham Lincoln was the the 16th president, only serving from 1860-1865 when he was shot and killed. Lincoln was against slavery. -
Battle at Fort Sumter
Significance: By forcing the Union soldiers within to surrender, the seige gave the Southerners confidence that they might win a War of Secession, giving them a reason to raise troops.
Winner- Confederate
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Lincoln orders blockade of the south
Significance: Stopped south from importing goods to and from the union. Victory: north/union -
First battle of bull run
Significance: It was an indication that this would be a long and bloody war and would require new leadership and improved training to prepare the federal troops for sustained action in the field.
Victory: confederate -
Monitor vs. Virginia naval battle
Most important naval battle in the civil war. -
Battle of Shiloh
Significance- moved the Union closer to its western goal of gaining control of the Mississippi River
Winner- Major union victory -
Battle at Chattanooga
Significance- It was a turning point for the civil war, because it gave the Union the ability to move further down South.
Victor- Union -
Battle of 7 days
Significance: put union out of battle for weeks
Victory: confederate
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2nd Battle of Bull Run (or 2nd battle of Manassas)
Significance- It was the last in Robert E. Lee's impressive string of victories in Summer 1862 that had brought the British close to intervening on the side of the South.
Winner- Confederate -
Antietam
Significance- Deadliest battle fought by the us army.
Winner- Union
It was a battle. -
Emmancipation Proclimation
Significance: It freed the confederate territory
Doccument/speech -
Emancipation Proclamation takes effect
When this document went into effect all slaves had to be free. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Significance: Robert E. Lee attempted and failed to invade the North in a move designed to take pressure off of Virginia and possibly earn a victory that could end the war. The failure of Pickett’s Charge meant that the South had lost. The loss for the South was demoralizing and General Lee never again attempted to invade the North on this grand scale.
Victor: union -
Siege of Vicksburg
Significance- Victory in the battle of Vicksburg gave control of the Mississippi River to the Union.
Victor- union -
Gettysburg Address
Significance- It was Lincolns most famous speech and one of the most quoted speeches in us history. -
Ulysses S. Grant takes over the Union Army
Significance: President Abe Lincoln had to sign a document in order for this to be allowed. -
13th Amendment passed
Significance- Officially ended slavery. -
Robert E. Lee surrenders
Significance- One of the most important people in the civil war. -
Sherman captures Atlanta
Significance: Atlanta fell on 2 September 1864, and Fremont withdrew from the election,citing fears that he would split the Republican vote, thus leading to a McClellan victory.However, following the fall of Atlanta Fremont probably realized that such an achievement so close to election day had fatally damaged his chances. -
Abraham Lincoln re-elected
Significance: It was the 4th year of the civil war and many were questioning whether the South could be fully conquered militarily.
What? Presidential election -
Sherman begins march to the sea
Significance- It destroyed the south and their economy.
Union won
What? battle -
Savannah, GA falls to the Union
Significance- it took Sherman and his troops a mere 24 days to march south across Georgia before they reached Savannah. This was the souths most valuable port.
Union victory
this was a battle -
Union Army moves in and occupies Richmond, VA.
Union troops occupy Richmond and Petersburg, Virginia. -
Abraham Lincoln shot and killed
Why?
His assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was a Southern sympathizer and he hoped that the death of Lincoln, VP Johnson and Secrertary of State Seward (all of whom were targeted to die the night Lincoln was killed) would throw the Union government into such turmoil that the South would be inspired to win the war. But this would have been wildly improbable after Lee's surrender 5 days earlier.
