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Confederate States of America are formed
The Confederate States were 11 states that seceded from the United States in 1860 following the election of Abraham Lincoln and was also led by Jefferson Davis -
Lincoln is elected president
Abraham Lincoln ran against Stephen Douglas and Lincoln lost the election but Lincoln won the Republican nomination for president of 1860 -
Battle of Fort Sumter
The battle was between the confederate states of America and the U.S military. The battle only last a day and the fort surrendered the next day and it started the Civil War -
President Lincoln declares a blockade of Southern ports
President Abraham Lincoln sided with Seward and proclaimed the blockade on April 19. Lincoln extended the blockade to include North Carolina and Virginia on April 27. -
First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)
The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of First Manassas, was the first major battle of the American Civil War. The battle was fought on July 21, 1861, in Prince William County, Virginia, just north of the city of Manassas and about thirty miles west-southwest of Washington, D.C. -
Battle of Shiloh
The battle took place in southwestern Tennessee and it happened between a church named a Shiloh and a place called Pittsburgh Landing -
Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam, or Battle of Sharps burg particularly in the Southern United States, was a battle of the American Civil War fought on September 17, 1862 -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg happened in the town of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. It was most brutal battle and it went on for 3 days. -
Gettysburg Address
It was a speech made by Abraham Lincoln and it was about ideals are worth dying for but it's up to the living to carry it's work for those who died trying to keep it alive. -
Sherman March to the sea
The General William Sherman led his men into the confederate state of Georgia and pillaged the countryside and took down to military outposts. -
Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
"With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan ~ to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." -
Surrender at Appomattox Court House
The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought in Appomattox County, Virginia, on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War. -
Lincoln's Assassinated
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 15 1865 by John Wilkes Booth in the Petersen House watching a play called Our American Cousin. -
13th Amendment to the Constitution
President Abraham Lincoln made the 13th amendment in 1865 to get rid of slavery everybody has freedom and punishment will be given to those who do crime.