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Fort Sumter
Confederates fire on and capture the union held Fort Sumter in south Carolina starting the civil war. -
First battle on Bull Run
Lincoln ordered an invasion of Virginia, plan was to take the rebel capitol of Richmond.Fight breaks out in a creek named Bull Run. -
Battle of Antietam
Union technically won, but the war was indecisive. -
Emancipation proclimation
It was said to free all slaves in the rebellious states. -
Defeat of vicksburg
Grant defeated the confederates and this was a significant war because it literally separated the confederates in half, and gave the union access to the river of the mississippi. -
Formation of the 54th Mass
When the first African Americans joined the army, which did outrageous on the assault of Fort Wagner. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Fought in Gettysburg Virginia, it was the costliest land battle. about 40,000 casualties. The Union won the battle -
New York City Draft
Manhattan, New York: the rioter's targets initially included only military and governmental buildings, symbols of the unfairness of the draft. Mobs attacked only those individuals who interfered with their actions. But by afternoon of the first day, some of the rioters had turned to attacks on black people, and on things symbolic of black political, economic, and social power. -
Gettysburg address
took place in a Soldier's National Cemetery Lincoln honored the dead soldiers that died for the Union, and said that their death should not left in vain, and that they died for a purpose. -
Sherman's March to the Sea
Union General William T. Sherman led some 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. The purpose of this “March to the Sea” was to frighten Georgia's civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause. Called a Total War. -
End of Recontruction
General Haynes withdrew the rest of the troops from the south, the South collapses and turned back to the Original south, -
Congress passes the 13th Amendment
abolished slavery in the United States. -
Freedmen's Bureau
to aid freedmen (freed slaves) in the South during the Reconstruction era of the United States.The Bureau's powers were expanded to help African Americans find family members from whom they had become separated during the war. It arranged to teach them to read and write -
Surrender at Appomattox Court House
Took place at the town named Appomattox Court House. Grant and Lee met in a house and Lee signed a paper to officially end the Civil War. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
During a play in Ford's theater, John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln. unfortunately died a day after he was shot. -
15th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote, not matter what race, color, or previous background. -
Supreme Court Case Plessy vs Ferguson
A case where Homer Plessy did not like the way that people are being treated from their color of their skin, being segregated, -
14th Amendment
All persons born in the United States, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.