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Start of the War
After the south left the union, because of the election of Lincoln, they attacked the union-held Fort Sumter. The capture of this fort led to the start of the war. -
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Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter was the beginning of the Civil War. The Confederate States Army, return gunfire and the Union surrender that started the American Civil War. -
Battle of Bull Run
Lincoln had ordered an invasion of Virginia in the summer of 1861. the plan was to take the rebel capital of Richmond. The confederates are successful in this battle. The union was over their head about winning. The north is shocked and Lincoln is forced to take the south serious and that they are not a rebellion. -
Battle of Antietam
The bloodiest Single day of War. Union forces went on attack at Antietam Creek. Fight all day, no one gained ground by nightfall. Lee was forced to draw into Virginia. 22,717 dead wounded or missing after this war. -
emancipation proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln made the law Emancipation Proclamation which enabled all peoples in the rebellious states are free. Abraham worded it for a reason he didn't want to anger the border states who were helping the Union. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The greatest battle of the Civil War, fought in south-central Pennsylvania in 1863. It ended in a major victory for the North and is usually considered the turning point of the war. -
Defeat of Vicksburg
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's armies converged on Vicksburg, investing the city and entrapping a Confederate army under Lt. Gen. John Pemberton. Vicksburg surrendered after prolonged siege operations. -
formation of the 54 massachusetts
The 54th of Massachusetts was one of the most famous of all black regiments and on July 1863 attacks fort Wagner in South Carolina. All black soldiers wore blue uniforms along with the union army. African american were organized into all-black regiments led by white officers -
New York City Draft Riots
Violence because of the draft. people started rioting everywhere killing anyone who got in their way. -
Gettysburg Address
A speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. Lincoln was speaking at the dedication of a soldiers' cemetery at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg. -
Shermans March to the Sea
, Sherman led his troops on a destructive campaign which concluded with the capture of the port city of Savannah on December 21. It is known for its boldness as well as the sheer destruction inflicted on the south, both to its industry as well as military targets, effectively destroying the Confederate’ -
End of Reconstruction
withdrew the last federal troops from the south, and the bayonet-backed Republican government -
13 Amendment
Slavery was abolished only in the rebel states. -
Creation of Freedom's Bureau
Lincoln signs a bill creating the Bureau of Refugees, -
Appomattox Court House
t was the final engagement of Confederate Army general Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
the 16th president was killed in a theater watching a play with his wife when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth -
14 Amendment
Anyone born in the US is citizen to the US constitution -
15 Amendment
Anyone can vote. -
Supreme Court VS Ferguson
landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court. It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal".
