Civil War & Reconstruction

Civil War and Reconstruction

Period: Jul 21, 1860 to Jul 21, 1877

Abraham Lincoln becomes president

Nov 6, 1860

Secession of South Carolina

Dec 20, 1860

Confederate government organized

Feb 4, 1861

Fall of Fort Sumter

Apr 14, 1861

First Battle of Bull Run

Jul 21, 1861

Duel between the Monitor and the Merrimac

Mar 9, 1862

Battle of Shiloh

Apr 6, 1862

Second Battle of Bull Run

Aug 30, 1862

Battle of Antietam

Sep 17, 1862

Battle of Fredericksburg

Dec 13, 1862

Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation

Jan 1, 1863

Battle of Chancellorsville

May 2, 1863

Surrender of Vicksburg

Jul 4, 1863

Battle of Gettysburg

Jul 14, 1863

Lincoln's address at Gettysburg

Nov 19, 1863

Battle of the Wilderness

May 6, 1864

Sherman captures Atlanta

Sep 2, 1864

Sherman begins his march to the sea

Nov 15, 1864

Surrender of Lee at Appomattox

Apr 9, 1865

Assassination of Lincoln

Apr 14, 1865

Andrew Johnson becomes president

Apr 15, 1865

Thirteenth Amendment ratified

Dec 18, 1865

Purchase of Alaska from Russia

Mar 30, 1867

Reconstruction bill passed over veto

May 2, 1867

President Johnson impeached by the House

Feb 24, 1868

Fourteenth Amendment adopted

Jul 9, 1868

Inauguration of U. S. Grant

Mar 4, 1869

Pacific Railroad completed

May 10, 1869

Fifteenth Amendment ratified

Mar 30, 1870

Great fire in Chicago

Oct 10, 1871

The financial panic of 1873

Oct 4, 1873

Invention of the telephone

Feb 14, 1876

Custer's army destroyed by the Indians

Jun 25, 1876

R. B. Hayes becomes president

Mar 4, 1877

Great railroad strike

Jul 14, 1877