U.S. HISTORY CIVIL WAR

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  • The Compromise of 1850

    The Compromise of 1850
    Westward expansion redirected over expansion of slavery in the U.S.

  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln
    The First Republican, receiving 180 of 303 possible electoral votes and 40 percent of the popular vote

  • Southern Secedes From The Union

    Southern Secedes From The Union
    South Carolina followed within two month Mississippi, Florida, Alabama thus joining the Confederate

  • Fort Sumter Attacked

    Fort Sumter Attacked
    The 1st shots to the civil war took place at fort sumter intended by the confederates

  • Antietam

    Antietam
    The bloodiest day in U.S. military history as Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Armies are stopped at Antietam in Maryland by McClellan.

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

    The Emancipation Proclamation
    freeing all slaves in territories held by Confederates and the enlisting of black soldiers in the Union Army. The war to preserve the Union now becomes a revolutionary struggle for the abolition of slavery.

  • Chancellorsville

    Chancellorsville
    The Union Army defeated by Lee's much smaller forces at the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia also the time Stonewall Jackson was accidental shot by a confederate soldier

  • Atlanta

    Atlanta
    The union won the battle which was the turning point for the confederates soldier

  • 13 amendment

    13 amendment
    It was a law passed to free the African america

  • Lee Surrenders

    Lee Surrenders
    Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders his Confederate Army to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the village of Appomattox Court House in Virginia.

  • Lincoln Shot

    Lincoln Shot
    That night, Lincoln and his wife Mary see the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater. At 10:13 p.m., during the third act of the play, John Wilkes Booth shoots the president in the head.

  • The Reconstruction Plan

    The Reconstruction Plan
    Pres. Andrew Jackson pardoned most confederates who swore allegiance to the union therefore led to many angry american because there were not punishing the confederates.

  • KKK

    KKK
    Aka The Ku Klux Klan the main reason for its existence was to limit African american to vote

  • President Andrew Jackson

    President Andrew Jackson
    Charges for his impeachment Fired sec, of war Edward Stanton and

  • 18th President

    18th President
    Ulysses S. Grant a popular war hero but disappointing which were part of political corruption and scandals also. 15th amendments was ratified