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CIVIL WAR
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Abraham Lincoln elected president
Significance- It was important because Abe Lincoln was in charge and was president as the war took place. He was a great president and helped the Union in war. -
Battle at Fort Sumter
Significance- It was the start of the civil war. It caused the rest of the events, and that's why it is important. -
Lincoln Orders Blockade of the South
Significance- It was important because it defined several different things in the Civil War. -
1st Battle Of Bull Run
Significance- It was important because it was a huge battle, and it shattered the Union's chance of winning quickly into the war. -
Monitor vs. Virginia naval battle
Significance- It was important because it was the first battle of combat in warships. -
Battle of Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh was a major Union Victory in the West. It was a much needed victory for at the same time Robert E. Lee and the Confederates were doing well in the East. -
Battle at Chattanooga
It was a turning point for the civil war, because it gave the Union the ability to move further down South. -
7 Days Campaign
Significance- It was important because it was a long, bloody battle fought in the Richmond area. -
2nd Battle of Bull Ru
Significance- It was important because it was the last in Robert E. Lee's impressive string of victories in Summer 1862 that had brought the British close to intervening on the side of the South. -
Antietam
Significance- It was the bloodiest day of the Civil War and because Lee withdrew to
Virginia the Union was considered the victor. -
Emancipation Proclamation issued
Significance- It's impoprtant because it is what led to the thirteenth amendment in the commandment, though, a year later declaring all slaves free. -
Battle at Chancellorsville
The Battle of Chancellorsville was important because it was an attempt by the Union forces to seize the Confederate capital of Richmond,Virginia. -
Emancipation Proclamation takes effect
It ended slavery in the rebelling states. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Significance- It was important because it was the turning point in which the North stopped losing, and started beating the South. -
Siege of Vicksburg
Victory in the battle of Vicksburg gave control of the Mississippi River to the Union. -
Gettysburg Address
Significance- It was important because it is that the Civil War as not only a struggle for the Union, but also as a new birth of freedom that would bring equality to all of Americas' people. -
Ulysses S. Grant takes over the Union Army
Significance- It was important because the Union got a new leader, which changed the war greatly. -
Sherman captures Atlanta
Significance- It was important because it helped guaranteed that Lincoln would be re-elected. -
Abraham Lincoln re-elected
Significance- It was important because Lincoln was re-elected and that helped the Union gain confidence. -
Sherman begins march to the sea
It made a alot of water battles, and it was a war turning point. -
Savannah, GA falls to the Union
It was importat because a big slave city like Savanah fell to the Union because the Union won that area. -
13th Amendment passed
It was important because it outlawed slavery in the USA. -
Union Army moves in and occupies Richmond, VA.
Significance- It was important because they came into Richmond and took it over. -
Robert E. Lee surrenders
It ended the civil war. -
Abraham Lincoln shot and killed
Significance- It was important because Lincoln was a big part of the country and our president at the time, and he got assassinated.
