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Civil War and Reconstrction

  • Lincoln Elected President

  • South Carolina Secedes

  • the Confederate States of America is formed

  • Lincoln Inaugurated

  • Battle of Fort Sumter

  • First Battle of Manassas

  • Grant Given Command of U.S

  • Battles of Ft. Henry and Donelson

  • Battle of the Iron Clads

  • Battle of Shiloh

  • Battle Of New Orleans

  • Period: to

    Peninsula Campaign

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Battle of Antietam

  • Stonewall Jackson Killed

  • Gettysburg

  • Vicksburg

  • Port Hudson

  • Period: to

    Red River Campaign

  • Period: to

    Battle of Wilderness and Spotsylvania

  • Battle of Petersburg

  • Sherman burns Atlanta

  • Freeman's Bureau Created

  • Unconditional Surrender at Appomattox

  • Lincoln Assassinated

  • Plessey v. Ferguson

  • Creation of the Ku Klux Klan

  • 13th Amendment

  • Memphis Race Riot

  • Oscar Dunn Elected as Lt. Governor of Louisiana

  • 14th Amendment

  • New Orleans Race Riot

  • Ulysses S. Grant Elected President

  • John Menard Elected to U.S House of Rep.

  • Hiram Revels Elected to U.S Senate

  • 15th Amendment

  • Blamche Bruce Elected to U.S Senate

  • Rutherford B Haynes Elected President Ending Reconstruction