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Raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry was an effort by a group of armed abolitionist to initiate a revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia -
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln is elected as our 16th president and right after that a southern state secedes. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
The Confederates States of America is formed and the Civil War begins at Fort Sumter. -
Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam was the first battle on North soil and is claimed as one of the bloodiest battles in US history. -
The Battle of Gettysburg
It was the battle with the most casualties in the Civil War, and also this was the turning point. -
Gettysburg Address
It was delivered by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, 4 and a half months after the Union defeated the Confederacy. -
North & South Carolina
William Sherman leads Union troops from Georgia up through the Carolinas and ends up defeating one of the last major armies in the Confederate army. -
Abolishing Slavery
Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States and provides -
Assassination
Abraham Lincoln, was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre -
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson, Abraham Lincolns Vice Pres. becomes the United States president after the assassination of Lincoln -
KKK
In Pulaski, Tennessee a group of Confederate veterans had formed a group known as the KKK (Klu Klux Klan) to stop the policies that would elevate the right of local African Americans. -
First Reconstruction Act
The act applied to all the ex-Confederate states in the South, except Tennessee who had already ratified the Fourteenth Amendment. It split the states into five military districts, each under the control of a Northern General whose responsibility it was to protect life and property of new citizens. -
Fourteenth Amendment
The 14th Amendment doesn't let states make a law that takes the privallges of any citizens. -
Impeachment???
The U.S. House of Representatives votes 11 articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson.The House vote made President Johnson the first president to be impeached in U.S. history. -
15 Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment forbids denial of vote on racial grounds.
