The Civil War

By AllysonSchmidt

  • The South Secedes

    In the response to the election of Abraham Lincoln South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana all seceded from the Union. Following his inauguration Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee seceded as well.

  • Lincoln's First Election

    The republican candidate, anti-slavery, won the election with less than 50% of the vote. His election spiraled several states into secession and henseforth the civil war.

  • 1st Battle of Bull Run

    This was the first major battle in the Civil war; it ended in a Confederate Victory. It was fought with unexperienced and disorganized troops and ended with the Union's retreat.

  • The First Income Tax

    Presisdent Lincoln impossed the first federal income tax in the Untited States. The purpose of the tax was to fund the pending war against the South.

  • 1st Confiscation Act

    This act began the confiscation of property used to support the Confederate effort. These confiscations included slaves and land mainly.

  • Trent Affair

    This was a crisis between the ships of the United States and Great Britain. The crisis is based upon a claim that the seizure of the British ship by the United States Navy was a violation of international law.

  • Confederate States of America

    This was the confederate group of states made up of the seceded states. They were stablished at the election of Lincoln.

  • Monitor vs. Marrimac

    This was the first battle between the newly developed ironclad ships that changes navel warfare all around the world. It ended undecisively.

  • Shiloh

    A battle fought in Pittsburg Landing resulting in Union Victory. The battles were between armies of Tennessee and Ohio and the army of Mississippi.

  • Capture of New Orleans

    This was a very important Union victory as is allowed them to continue their plan to control the Confederate money. The city was captured but spared destruction, many other southern cities did not.

  • Homestead Acts

    The Homestead acts were initially proposed as an expression of "free soil" policies of Northerners. This was ment to oppose the Southern economic advantage.

  • 2nd Confiscation Act

    The Second Confiscation Acts freed all slaves from their Confederate owners. This emancipation applied only to the rebellious states.

  • Harper's Ferry

    This was part of the Civil War Campaign in Maryland. Lee took his army of Northern Virginians and advanced to Harper's Feryy in order to attempt the capture of the garrison.

  • Antietam

    A Union victory fought in Maryland resulting in the bloodiest single day battle in American history. The confederate leader was R. Lee who retreated as Union McClellan did not pursue.

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves are, and henceforward shall be free". This only applied to the rebelious states.

  • National Draft

    This act called for all men between the ages of 18 and 45 to enoll in local malitia untis to be available for national services. The drafting became a responsibility of the individual states.

  • Habeas Corpus Suspended

    John Merryman was arrested and attempted to use the writ of Habeas Corpus so that the federal court would need to examine the charges. Lincoln, however, suspended this write in order to avoid this.

  • Vicksburg

    Ulysses S. Grant led the Union army in the first action of the Vicksburg campaing. It resulted in Union victory.

  • Capture of Atlanta

    This battle resulted in the Union seizing control of the rail and supply center of Atlanta. The city fell on September 2 that year.

  • Lincoln's Re-Election

    He won with just over 50% of the vote against George B. McClellan. He was the first president to be re-elected scince Andrew Jackson.

  • Sherman's March to the Sea

    This was when the troops marched out of the captured city, Atlanta. They destroyed industry and infrastructure of the Southern economy.

  • 13th Amendment

    This was the formal abolition of slavery in the United States. It stated "Neither slaver nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction".

  • Capture of Richmond

    This was the Union victory that was the rusult of a four year struggle to capture the Confederate Capital.

  • Surrender at Appomattox

    This was the final engagement between the Confederacy and the Union before they surrendered to Grant's army. This was one of the last battles of the Civil War.

  • Lincoln's Assassination

    Taking place in Ford's Theatre, D.C., by John Wilkes Booth. He was the first American President to be assassinated.