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Lincoln is elected president
he built the Republican Party into a strong national organization -
Confederate States of America is formed
The Confederate states became a thing when congress ban slavery. -
Battle of Front Sumter
Forces from the Confederate States of America attacked the United States military garrison at Fort Sumter South Carolina -
President Lincoln declares a blockade of Southern ports
President Lincoln blocks of ports coming out the Confederate states -
First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)
The battle of bull run cost some 3,000 Union casualties compared with 1,750 for the Confederates -
Battle of Shiloh
The battle of Shiloh the two day battle ended in a victory for the union -
Battle of Antietam
he Battle of Antietam pitted Union General George McClellan's Army of the Potomac against General Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia the Maryland Campaign was Lee's first attempt to take the war North and it was McClellan who was tasked by President Abraham Lincoln with stopping him -
battle of gettysburg
The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point -
Gettysburg Address
The main message of the Gettysburg Address is that ideals are worth dying for and that it is up to the living to carry on the work of those who died to protect ideals the ideals of equality and freedom are the bedrock of the United States as a nation -
Emancipation Proclamation
The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
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. -
13th amendment to Constitution
The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." -
Surrender at Appomattox Court House
Trapped by the Federals near Appomattox Court House, Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union general Ulysses S. Grant -
Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
Lincoln's second inaugural address was to claim that both the South and North had to share some of the blame for the sin of slavery -
Lincoln Assassinated
actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C. and fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln