Civil War

By TrevorHager

  • Election

    Election
    The day of Lincoln's election and soon after the first state secedes from the USA.

  • First Bull Run

    First Bull Run
    The very first battle of the war, tensions high in the south but the north thought they had it. South wins

  • Anaconda Plan

    Anaconda Plan
    A plan to try and squeeze the life out of the south so they have no choice but to give up (In theory).

  • Antietam

    Antietam
    The war was a draw, both sides losing massive amounts of men. Union had the upper hand because we found their plans in a cigar but didn't execute on them.

  • Emacipation Proclomation

    Emacipation Proclomation
    Lincoln issues this as soon as he can start making laws in office and it makes all slaves free in the rebellious states.

  • Chancellorsville

    Chancellorsville
    Biggest and greatest battle for the south. Robert E. Lee's greatest victory of the civil war but it came with a cost of hist best soldiers life, Jackson dies.

  • Gettysburg

    Gettysburg
    The turning point for the civil war.Lee's army is looking for supplies.The first mistake Lee makes of the civil war and it costs him. Union win.

  • Vicksburg

    Vicksburg
    Vicksburg falls and will continue to split the south in half giving the north an advantage.

  • Demise of Lincoln

    Demise of Lincoln
    was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth. while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. Kill John W. Booth 12 days after assassination.

  • Election of 1864

    Election of 1864
    The only possible candidate to run against Lincoln is McClellan. The man Lincoln fired earlier in the year for losing against lee time and time again. Lincoln wins.

  • Reconstruction plans

    Reconstruction plans
    10% plan. get at least 10 percent of the population in the south to be on the north's side. 13th amendment was made.black suffrage.

  • Feedman's Bureau

    Feedman's Bureau
    The U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, popularly known as the Freedmen's Bureau, was established in 1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War

  • KKK

    KKK
    This was the most malicious group and specifically for the blacks. Even though the blacks were free they didn't have much.

  • Military reconstruction act

    Military reconstruction act
    With the Radical Republicans fully in control of Congress after the mid-term elections of 1866.These acts divided the south into five military districts.

  • Election of 1868

    Election of 1868
    Johnson had made many of his constituents and had been impeached by Congress. Although Johnson kept his office, his presidency was crippled. After numerous ballots, the Democrats nominated former New York Governor Horatio Seymour to take on the Republican candidate, Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant. Grant wins