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Uncle Tom's Cabin
It is a book about the anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
This novel helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War -
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Harper's Ferry
This was the start to end of Harper's Ferry Riad -
John Brown's raid of Harper's Ferry
This was an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start a slavery revolt in 1859, by stopping the United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry -
The Election of Abraham Lincoln as President
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Fort Sumter
The Confederate Forces had demanded a surrender from the Union garrison
The bombardment on Fort Sumter was the opening battle for the American Civil War -
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Civil War
The Civil War was a 4 year War -
Anaconda Plan
Winfield Scott was the commanding general who devised the Anaconda Plan
The blockade stopped most local port-to-port traffic -
Battle of Bull Run
It was the first major land battle in the Civil War
The Confederate army decisively beat the Union forces
The Union's early successes that they were routed and forced to retreat back to Washington -
The Trent Incident
It was a diplomatic crisis that brought Great Britain and the United States closest to the war i the first year of the Civil War -
Battle of Shiloh
General Ulysses S. Grant and the Confederate General albert Sidney Johnston had collided at Shiloh
This became one of the bloodies engagements of the war -
Battle of Antietam
Marked the culmination of Confederate General Robert E. Le's first invasion of the North -
Battle of Fredericksburg
This was between General Robert E. Lee and commander Major General Ambrose Burnside -
Emancipation Proclimation
They approached the third year of the Bloody Civil war
The proclimation declared "all persons held as slaves, are and henceforward shall be free" -
Battle of Chancellorsville
This resulted in a Confederate victory and had stopped an attempted flanking movement by Major General Joseph Hooker's Army, and fought against the left of General Robert E. Lee's Army -
Battle of Vicksburg
Ulysses S. Grant's armies converged om Vicksburg, which lured the Confederate army under Lieutenant General John Pemberton -
Battle of Gettysburg
This began as an engagement between the Army of Northern Virginia under the influence of General Robert E. Lee -
Battle of Atlanta
Union forces commanded by William T. Sherman, who wanted to neutralize the important rail and supply spots, they also defeated the Confederate forces -
Battle of Chickamauga
This was the largest battle fought in the Western Theatre of the American Civil war, it is second to Gettysburg -
Robert E. Lee Surrenders
H surrenderhs 28,000 troop to the Union General Ulyusses S. Grant, which ended the Civil War -
Assasination of Abraham Lincoln
He was assasinated by John Wilks Booth at the Ford Theatre, while he was enjoying a show with his family -
Presidential Reconstruction
Andrew Johnson announced his plan for the Reconstruction
This launched his plans for Unionism and his beliefs in the state's rights -
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Reconstruction
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Radical Reconstruction
Republicans in Congress had resented President Johnson's leniency towards the Southern States
This continued to limit the civil rights of the former slaves -
Transforming the South
"The whole fabric of Southern society must be changed"
Stevens and the other Radicals would effect the slavery and get rid of it -
The 15th Ammendment
The 15th Ammendment had declared that no male citizen could prevent it from voting because of their race -
Reconstruction comes to an End
The Ku Klux Klan organized targets on local Republican leaders, the whiltes, blacks and other African Americans
