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Civil War and the Reconstruction

By taylor2321

  • Secession convention held

    Secession convention held
    Virginia calls a special session of its assembly to consider a convention over the question of secession.

  • Meeting of Confederate Congress

    Meeting of Confederate Congress
    By 1860, the majority of the slave states were publicly threatening secession if the Republicans, the anti-slavery party, won the presidency. Following Republican Abraham Lincoln's victory over the divided Democratic Party.

  • Confederate States of America formed

    Confederate States of America formed
    In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana convene to establish the Confederate States of America.
    As early as 1858, the ongoing conflict between the North and the South over the issue of slavery led Southern leadership to discuss a unified separation from the United States.

  • Jefferson Davis chosen president of Confederate states

    Jefferson Davis chosen president of Confederate states
    In February 1861, representatives from the six seceded states met in Montgomery, Alabama, to formally establish a unified government, which they named the Confederate States of America. On February 9, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi was elected the Confederacy's first president. (Against the Union, and Abraham Lincoln).

  • Lincoln inaugurated

    Lincoln inaugurated
    By the time Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated in March 1861, Texas had joined the Confederacy, and federal troops held only Fort Sumter in South Carolina, Fort Pickens off the Florida coast, and a handful of minor outposts in the South.

  • Attack on Fort Sumter

    Attack on Fort Sumter
    On April 12, 1861, General Beauregard, in command of the Confederate forces around Charleston Harbor, opened fire on the Union garrison holding Fort Sumter. At 2:30pm on April 13 Major Robert Anderson, garrison commander, surrendered the fort and was evacuated the next day.

  • Call for Union volunteers

    Call for Union volunteers
    Rally for the Union. Another call for volunteers. Three Hundred Thousand Soldiers Wanted. A Proclaimation.

  • Lee in command of Virginia forces

  • Habeas corpus suspended

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    Civil War and Reconstruction

  • Escaped slaves declared "contraband"

    Contraband was a term commonly used in the United States military during the American Civil War to describe a new status for certain escaped slaves or those who affiliated with Union forces. The Army (and the United States Congress) determined that the US would not return escaped slaves who went to Union lines and classified them as contraband.

  • U.S Sanitary Commission established

    Surprisingly the U. S. Sanitary Commission was "organized by civilians, run by civilians and funded by civilians." Church congregations, ladies aid societies and groups of all kinds volunteered to make and collect goods for soldiers in the field.

  • First Battle of Bull Run

    This was the first major land battle of the armies in Virginia.

  • Crittenden-Johnson Resolution

    Crittenden-Johnson Resolution
    James Henry Crittenden of Kentucky came up with the Crittenden Compromise. The proposed ammendments of the Crittenden Compromise was designed to appease the South. Slavery was to be prohibited north of the 36 degrees, 30', but south to that (including cuba and mexico if ever purchased) would be given federal protection to slavery. However, Lincoln flatly rejected it and with that all hope reconciliation evaporated. The Crittenden Compromise failed.

  • First Confiscation Act

    First Confiscation Act
    First Cofiscation Act

  • Fremont's Proclamation

  • Battle of Ball's Bluff

  • Battle of Fort Henry

  • Battle of Fort Donelson

  • Battle of Pea Ridge

  • Monitor and Merrimack

  • Battle of Shiloh

  • Hunter's Proclamation

  • Slavery prohibited in US territories

  • Seven Days Battles

  • Second Confiscation Act

    Second Confiscation Act
    Second Confiscation Act

  • Habeas corpus suspended nationwide

  • Second Battle of Bull Run

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • First all-black regiment in the North authorized

  • Battle of Vicksburg

  • Harriet Tubman helped free slaves

  • Battle of Gettysburg

  • New York City Draft Riots

  • Battle of Fort Wagner

  • Gettysburg Address

  • Ten Percent Plan

  • Lincoln re-elected

  • Panic of 1873

  • Freedmen's Bureau established

  • Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

  • Surrender at Appomattox Court House

  • Lincoln assassinated

  • At Lincoln's death Johnson became president

  • Thirteenth Amendment ratified

  • Klu Klux Klan organized

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    Congressional control over Reconstruction

  • Civil Rights Act of 1866

  • Tennessee re-admitted to the Union

  • Reconstruction Acts of 1867

  • President impeached

  • Fourteenth Amendment ratified

  • Ulysses S. Grant elected president

  • Fifteenth Amendment

  • Fifteenth Amendment ratified

  • Grant re-elected

  • Resumption Act of 1875

  • Compromise of 1877

  • Troops withdrawn from South