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Abraham Lincoln Elected President
This event could be considered the event that ultimantly led to the souther states wanting to secede. They saw Abraham Lincoln as a man who wanted to change their ways and hated him for it, this is what led them to leave the United States.
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Battle of Fort Sumter
This battle was important because it was considered the battle that started the Civil War. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Sumter -
Union Blockade
The blockade was very important becuase it made it harder for the South the ship theiir goods out and get money, it also made it harder for them to get supplise during the war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_blockade -
1st Battle of Bull Run
This battle was important because the Union decided to march on the Confederate capital and try to end the war early but then the Confederates put up a fight and showed the Union that they were not a force to be reconed with.
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Monitor vs. Virginia naval battle
This was considered the most important naval battle of the civil war because it established each sides standing in naval warfare, the confederacy tired to break the union blockade and it didnt work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hampton_Roads -
Battle of Shilo
The Union army won this battle but even though they won many lives were lost showing both sides that this was going to be a violent long war. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shiloh -
7 Day Campain
These battles took place in Virginia and were important becuase both sides lost many men in this series of battles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_Battles -
Battle of Gettysburg
The battle of Gettysburg was very important in the civil war becuase it had the greatest number of casualties of any battle fought during the civil war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gettysburg -
Second Battle of Bull Run
This battle was won by the confederacy it was a very important battle that helped determine the Northern Virinia Campain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Bull_Run -
Battle of Antietam
This battle was the most violent day in american war history more soldiers were killed here than anywhere else during the war, this battle was faught on Union territory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Antietam -
Emancipation Proclamation
The emancipation proclamation was improtant because it was when Abraham Lincoln declared all of the slaves of the south forever free. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation -
Emancipation Proclamation Takes Effect
With the new law in place it allowed the Union to expand even more on the new rule of slavery being illegal everywhere in the United States. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-emancipation-proclamation-takes-effect -
Battle at Chancellorsville
This battle was one of the attempts the Union made to take over the confederate capital and it failed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chancellorsville -
Siege of Vicksburg
This battle was very important becuase with the Union controling a large portion of the Mississippi they could moderate what travled on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Vicksburg -
Gettysburg Address
This speach is still to this day historic, it was spoken by Able Lincoln himself he gave it to the soldiers after there loss at Gettysburg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address -
Ulysses S. Grant takes over the Union Army
This event was important beucase Ulysses S. Grant helped guide the Union army to victory and defeat the confederacy. He later became president also. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant -
13th amendment passed.
This law made slavery no longer leagal in the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution -
Robert E. Lee Surrenders
Without their general and leader the confederate army was nothing. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/robert-e-lee-surrenders -
Abraham Lincoln re-elected
This was important becuase with Abraham Lincoln as president the Union continued to try to regain control of the south. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1864 -
Sherman captures Atlanta
This battle was improtatnt because with the Union winning the battle they then controled the railways there which played a key part in their victory of the civil war. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Atlanta -
Sherman Captures Atlanta
This battle allowed the union to control a very large sum of what the confederates had used to manufacture things like weapons, also it helped them take over more railroads. http://www.todayingeorgiahistory.org/content/sherman-captures-atlanta -
Sherman's March to the Sea
This march by Sherman and his men left ruin all the way through the south destroying everything in their path. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman's_March_to_the_Sea -
Savannah Georgia Falls to the Union
In this battle the Union blocked off all ways to transfer supplise to the Confederate army. http://www.cmstory.org/history/timeline/default.asp?tp=9&ev=182 -
Union Army moves in and occupies Richmond, VA.
This was a key move in the battle it gave the Union army a distinct advantage over the Confederates. http://blueandgraytrail.com/year/186504 -
Abrahamn Lincoln Shot and Killed
President lincoln was the first president to be succesfully assassinated. This was ment to be a turning point in the war for the confederates, (but it didnt work) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln -
Abraham Lincoln Shot and Killed
Even though the general of the Confederacy had surrendered and the Civil war was considered won by the north, Abraham Lincoln was assasinated by John Wilkes Booth in an attempt to revive the Souths cause.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln
