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Jefferson Davis
Served as the president of the Confederate states from 1861 to 1865. -
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, who preserved the Union during the American Civil War -
Confederate States of America is formed
Representatives from South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana met in Montgomery, Alabama, with representatives from Texas arriving later, to form the Confederate States of America. -
William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman was an American soldier. -
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was born into slavery, and is an abolitionists and political activists. -
Ulysses S. Grant
US president of the united states form 1869 to 1877. He was also a American military leader. -
Stonewall Jackson
Confederates general in the American civil war. -
The Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska act allowed each territory to decide the issue of slavery. -
John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry
An effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
Election of 1860
1860 was the first and only time the party ran a candidate for president. The results of the 1860 election pushed the nation into war. -
Fort Sumter
The site of the first shots of the Civil War. -
Civil War
The American Civil War was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, a collection of eleven southern states that left the Union in 1860 and 1861 -
Battle of Bull Run
Union and Confederate armies clashed near Manassas Junction, Virginia. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg, fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863, is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. -
Sherman’s March to the Sea
A movement of the Union army troops of General William Tecumseh Sherman from Atlanta, Georgia, to the Georgia seacoast, with the object of destroying Confederate supplies. -
13th amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. -
14th amendment
Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including former enslaved people. -
15th amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
