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Civil War
The Civil War is signifigant because one half of the side is fighting for freeing slaves ,and the other half is fighting for keeping slaves. The side who wanted slaves was called the Confederetes ,and the other half who didn't want slavery was called the Union. -
1st Battle Of Bull Run
Just months after the start of the war at Fort Sumter, the Northern public clamored for a march against the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, which they expected to bring an early end to the rebellion. Yielding to political pressure, Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell led his unseasoned Union Army across Bull Run against the equally inexperienced Confederate Army of Brig. Gen. -
2nd Battle Of Bull Run
The Second Battle of Bull Run was fought August 28–30, 1862,[1] as part of the American Civil War. It was the culmination of an offensive campaign waged by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia against Union Maj. Gen. John Pope's Army of Virginia, and a battle of much larger scale and numbers than the First Battle of Bull Run fought in 1861 on the same ground. -
Battle Of Anteitam
Battle Of Anteitam was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with about 23,000 casualties on both sides. -
Emancipation Proclimation
The Emancipation Proclimation is significant because it freed slaves from 10 different states. Abraham Lincoln was the one who passed the Emancipation Proclimation not the Congress. On September 22, Licoln issued a preliminary proclamation that he would order the emancipation of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States of America that did not return to Union control by January 1, 1863. -
Lincoln's Assassination
The assassination of United States President Abraham Lincoln took place on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, as the American Civil War was drawing to a close. The assassination occurred five days after the commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, General Robert E. Lee, surrendered to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and the Union Army of the Potomac. Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated. John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln. -
End of the Civil War
The end of the Civil war signifigant because it was the end of a major war that lasted 2 or 3 years. -
CIvil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1866, 14 , enacted April 9, 1866, is a federal law in the United States that was mainly intended to protect the civil rights of African-Americans, in the wake of the American Civil War. The Act was enacted by Congress in 1865 but it was vetoed by President Andrew Johnson. In April 1866 Congress again passed the bill, Johnson again vetoed it, but this time a two-thirds majority in each house overcame the veto and the bill became law. -
Great Chicago Fire
The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned from Sunday, October 8, to early Tuesday, October 10, 1871, killing hundreds and destroying about 3.3 square miles (9 km2) in Chicago, Illinois.
The fire was one of the U.S biggest natural disasters. -
Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone National Park was established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872. Is a national park located primarily in the U.S. state of Wyoming
