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Republican party was created
One of the two most used parties -
Kansas-Nebraska Act passed
repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty. It also produced a violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas,” as proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote. -
Abraham Lincoln elected president
16th president -
South Carolina votes to secede from the United States-
South Carolina wanted slavery so they left -
Lincoln gives his second inaugural address
seven southern states had already seceded from the nation, and civil war was imminent -
Confederate forces fire on Fort Sumter
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Lincoln suspends habeas corpus
to give military authorities the necessary power to silence dissenters and rebels. Under this order, commanders could arrest and detain individuals who were deemed threatening to military operations -
First Battle of Bull Run is fought
was the first major battle of the American Civil War -
Jefferson Davis elected president of the Confederacy
Leader of the south -
Battle of Shiloh
a crucial victory for the Union during the Civil War -
Robert E. Lee is named commander of the Army of Northern Virginia-
Very good strategy -
Battle of Antietam-
showed that the Union could stand against the Confederate army in the Eastern theater -
Battle of Fredericksburg
one of the largest and deadliest battles of the Civil War. It featured the first opposed river crossing in American military history as well as the Civil War's first instance of urban combat. -
Emancipation Proclamation is announced
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 Chancellorsville
a huge victory for the Confederacy and General Robert E. Lee during the Civil War -
Battle of Gettysburg
It stopped the Confederate momentum in the Eastern Theater and it probably killed any chance of Europe intervening -
The Merrimac and the Monitor fight of the Virginia coast
history's first duel between ironclad warships and the beginning of a new era of naval warfare. -
New York City draft riots
Dont want the draft -
Lincoln gives his Gettysburg Address
a short speech at the close of ceremonies dedicating the battlefield cemetery at Gettysburg -
Atlanta is captured
Big blow to the south -
Abraham Lincoln defeats George McClellan to win re-election
He was popular -
Sherman begins his March to the Sea-
begins his expedition across Georgia by torching the industrial section of Atlanta and pulling away from his supply lines -
Congress passes the 13th Amendment
Abolished slavery -
Freedman’s Bureau is created
to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans -
Richmond falls to the Union Army
Confederate lines near Petersburg broke after a nine month seige. The retreat of the army left the Confederate capital of Richmond, 25 miles to the north, defenseless -
Richmond becomes the capital of the Confederacy-
It was a vital source of weapons and supplies for the war effort, and the terminus of five railroads. -
Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox
surrenders his 28,000 Confederate troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant -
President lincoln Assasination
Was killed in a theatre -
John Wilkes Booth is killed
He killed Abe lincoln
