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Abraham Lincoln becomes President
Abraham Lincoln, the person that said "Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free" becomes the President of the United States of America. -
South Carolina sparks the start of the Confederacy
South Carolina secedes from the Union, and two months after this, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas join the Cinfederate states, -
Attack on Fort Sumter
The Confederacy opens fire with 50 cannons on the fort marking the beginning of the Civil War. -
Union and Confederacy are fully formed
Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina also seced from the Union making a Confederate population of 9 million plus 4 million slaves while union has 21 States with a population of over 20 million. -
Rober E. Lee resigns his commission
Lee, a trained general in the United States Army goes to Virginia to fight with his home state, and at Richmond, he is offered a deal to fight as a general in the Civil War. -
Union suffers a defeat at bull run
Union army is defeated at bull run by Confederate General Thomas Jackson and he earns the nickname "Stonewall," because Union troops fall back to Washington. -
Unconditional Surrender Grant
Victory for General Grant in Tennessee. The Union army captures Fort Henry, and later Fort Donelson. -
Surprise at Shiloh
Confederacy attack General Grant's rookie troops at Shiloh on the Tennessee River. This results in 13,000 Union soldiers killed. -
Union captures New Orleans
Union ships go to the Mississippi River then capture New Orleans, one of the South's best seaports. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Lincoln puts the Emancipation Proclamation in action, freeing all slaves in the Confederates . The war changes its route to not only keep the Union safe, but to abolish slavery everywhere. -
Battle of Gettysberg
The majority of the war is now against the South as the Confederates lose the battleof Gettysburg in PA. This battle is the turning point of the war helping the North -
Mistake at Cold Harbor
A grave mistake by General Grant cost the Union Army to loose 7,000 soldiers in Cold Harbor Virginia. They were killed be the rebels of Virginia. -
Lincoln is re-elected
Abraham Lincoln is re-elected President, defeating his Democratic competitor. Lincoln convinces all but three states having a 55 percent popular vote of all the States. -
Lee Surrenders
General Lee gives up everything that is left in him, he states that after 4 years of fighting, he has to give up due to the circumstances. -
America's evolution from tragety
Lincoln is killed by John Wilkes Booth and America is in despair. As the months pass, America progresses; Booth is killed, all the Confederate groups surrender, and the thirteenth amendment abolishing slavery is created.
