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Union ironclad
On March 9, 1892, the union ironclad monitor confronted the Virginian the world first battle between ironclads -
The Compromise of 1850
During the 1850s congress attempted to solve the conflict over slavery by compromise. But the Compromise of 1805 and the Jansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 only Fuled sectional division -
The Election Of 1856
Northern Democrats refused to support either Stephen Douglas or President Franklin Pierce for the presidential nomination -
Maris des Cygnes Massacre
It was a Pro-Slavery gang guns down 11 unarmed antislavery settelers -
john Brown's raid
A company of the U.S m=Marines laer stormed the arsenal and captured Brown and his surviving follers. They were tried for murder and treason against Virginia and sentence to death -
Election of 1860
Lincoln became president -
War in the East
In 1862 confederate general Robert E. Lee took command of the conferacy's Army of Northern Virginia -
The Union's ironclad monitor confronted the virginia
The Union's ironclad monitor confronted the virginia in the world's first battle between ironclads. the battle ended with no winner but changed naval warfare forever -
Battle of Antietam
Battle Of Antietam, on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest day of the Civil War, was the bloodiest day of the Civil War. Union and Confederate casualties combined exceeded 23,000. -
Emancipation Proclamation
On January 1, 1863, President Lincoln issued the Emancipican Proclamation -
Enough troops
by the late November 1863, grant had enough troop to end the siege control of chaat tanooga was important to step in his plan to invade Georgia the heart of the lower south -
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Major Battle
A large number of major battles in 1863-1684 over whelmed camps that were already inadequate -
Congress Responded
in 1664 congress responded with its own reconstruction plan the wade- Davis bill -
union army entered atlana
On September 2 the union army enters Atlanta. -
Petersburg
In April 1865, the long siege of Petersburg succeded -
Appomattox court house
Lee and Grant met in a home in Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, on April 9. -
Office Act
Afraid the johnson might use his authority over the military to interfere with reconstruction Congress also passes the tenure of office act of 1867 -
The house of representatives
The house of representatives then voted in February 1868 to impeach joason for violating the act -
Fifteenth amendment
To protect African American voiting right republicans quickly pushed the fifteenth amendment through Congress in February 1869 -
freeman
by the end of the 1870s, most freeman and many poor white settlers were shared, croppers -
congress
when state government could not control the violence, congress passed three enforcement acts during 1870 -1871
