Civil War and reconstruction

  • Jefferson Davis Confederate President

  • Confederate States Of America

  • Battle of Fort Sumter

  • First Battle of Bull Run

  • 13th amendment ratified

  • Battle of Fort Henry & Fort Doneslon

    Union victory
  • Battle of Shiloh

  • Battle of Antietam

  • Emanciation Proclamation

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    Siege of Vicksburg

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    Battle of Gettysburg

  • Gettysburg Address

  • Ulysses S. Grant Becomes commander of union army

  • Sherman's March to Sea

  • Sherman Captures Atlanta

  • Robert E. Lee surrenders

  • President Abroham Lincoln assassinated

  • Civil Rights act of 1866

  • Reconstruction Acts

  • Andrew Johnson imorached

  • 14th amendment ratified

  • Ulysses S. Grant elected president

  • 15th amendment ratified

  • Hiram Revels becomes the first Black U.S senator

  • Enforcement Acts

  • Panc of 1873

  • Disputed presidential election

  • Compromise of 1877

  • Jim Crow laws