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Fort Sumter
Confederates fire on and capture Fort Sumter, starting the Civil War -
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Civil War
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First Battle of Bull Run
Lincoln ordered the invasion of Virginia. The plan was to take the capitol of Richmond. The Confederates won. -
Battle of Antietam
Led by General McClellan, the Union soldiers fought to prevent the Confederates from invading the Union states. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, ordering all of the Confederate slaves to the right of freedom. Naturally, the slave owners did not oblige. -
Battle of Gettysburg
A skirmish that soon turned into a full on battle between the Union and the Confederate armies. A battle of three days, the Union won. -
Defeat of Vicksburg
General Ulysses S. Grant had defeated the confederates. Won over the Mississippi -
New York City Draft Riots
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Formation of the 54th Mass
African American men could join the Union army and fight. -
Gettysburg Address
The Speech the President had made in honor of those who has died in the Civil War. -
Shermans March to the Sea
General William Tecumseh Sherman led Union troops to destroy the South. -
Congress Passes the 13th Amendment
Lincoln urged Congress to pass the 13th Amendment to end slavery in the US. -
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
General Lee and Grant agreed to meet up and claim an end to the war. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth, the former President was a part of the planned murder by angry Southerners. -
14th Amendment
Congress was not satisfied with the way the South was responding to the passed laws/Amendments, so they passed the 14th Amendment. This Amendment made it possible to include blacks into American citizenship. -
15th Amendment
Since the South had been trying to avoid the Amendments passed, Congress passed the 15th Amendment. This allowed blacks to vote. -
Supreme Court Case Plessy vs Ferguson
A man sat on the "white only" part of a train, and was arrested. The case was taken to the Supreme Court where segregation was later ruled, "constitutional." -
End of Rescontruction
In 1876, Hayes was elected President. He later withdrew troops from the South, ending Reconstruction.