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Lincoln is elected president
Republican lincoln is elected president and said he wasn't going to end slavery but he didn't want it to spread. But that wasn't enough to calm the fears of the southern states,so most of them seceded from the union. -
Confederate States of America is formed
The southern states felt threatened with lincolns presidency and the issue of them not expanding slavery so they seceded from the union -
Battle of Fort Sumter
The militia commander P.G.T Beauregard wanted Anderson to surrender the fort so he demanded him to but he refused (again). In response to that Beauregard opened fire shortly after. -
President Lincoln declares a blockade of Southern ports
As a result of the battle of fort Sumter Lincoln declared a blockade on all the seceded southern states stopping them from importing and exporting cash crops, essential supplies out of the confederacy. -
First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)
Bull Run was the first full-scale battle of the Civil War. The fierce fight there forced both the North and South to face the sobering reality that the war would be long and bloody. After this stinging defeat for the Union, Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell, the commander of the Union Army of Northeastern Virginia, was relieved and replaced by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, who set about reorganizing and training what would become the Army of the Potomac. -
Battle of Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburgh Landing, allowed Union troops to penetrate the Confederate interior. The carnage was unprecedented, with the human toll being the greatest of any war on the American continent up to that date. -
Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam pitted Union General George McClellan's Army of the Potomac against General Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia. The Maryland Campaign was Lee's first attempt to take the war North and it was McClellan who was tasked by President Abraham Lincoln with stopping him. It was known as the bloodiest battle. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Both the Confederates and the Union were aiming for a certain road junction in Gettysburg, which led to a collision of the two armies. Determined to destroy the Union army, Lee decided to immediately concentrate his forces there, while the Union also kept sending reinforcements, resulting in a three-day battle. -
The 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." -
The Gettysburg Address
Lesson Summary. President Abraham Lincoln wrote and delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863, to commemorate a new national cemetery at Gettysburg during the American Civil War. The Gettysburg Address's significance is that it sought to give meaning to the sacrifice of soldiers who died during the war. -
Sherman’s March to the Sea
A movement of the Union army troops of General William Tecumseh Sherman from Atlanta, Georgia, to the Georgia seacoast, with the object of destroying Confederate supplies. The march began after Sherman captured, evacuated, and burned Atlanta in the fall of 1864 -
Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
When Lincoln gave that address on March 4, 1861, seven southern states had already seceded from the nation, and civil war was imminent. Now, after four years of a terrible national crisis, Lincoln uses his Second Inaugural to gently, but clearly, call out slavery as the reason for the war -
Surrender at Appomattox Court House
Trapped by the Federals near Appomattox Court House, Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union general Ulysses S. Grant, precipitating the capitulation of other Confederate forces and leading to the end of the bloodiest conflict in American history. -
Lincoln Assassinated
As the war drew to a close with the fall of Richmond on April 3, 1865, and Lee's surrender at Appomattox on April 9, there were Southern sympathizers who believed that the Confederacy could be restored. John Wilkes Booth held that belief, and it was the motive behind his plot to murder President Abraham Lincoln. -
13th amendment to Constitution
The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."May