The Events of the Civil War Sarah #20

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
01/01/1860	North vs. South	Tensions were high between Northern and Southern U.S.A. The South believed in slavery but the North didn't like slavery. The North also helped the runaway slaves from the South get to Canada safely where slavery was not allowed.
11/01/1860	New President!	Abraham Lincoln was elected president. This scared the southern states because Lincoln was against slavery and their lives depended on slaves. Slaves did all of their work for their masters and the slave-owners did not want to have to do all of the work people have been doing for them for a while.
12/20/1860	USA Loses a State!	South Carolina was the first state to secede from the nation.
01/01/1861	More States Secede!	Throughout January and February of 1861, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisianna, and Texas seceded from the USA.
02/01/1861	Confederate States of America	The Confederate States of America was formed. There were a total of 11 states. Those 11 states had one and only one president that was named Jefferson Davis.
03/04/1861	Lincoln's Inauguration	Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as president.
04/01/1861	Robert E. Lee's Change of Sides	Robert E. Lee originally fought on the Union Side, but followed his home state, Virginia, to the Confederacy.
04/12/1861	First Battle of Civil War	The Civil War started with a battle on Fort Sumter, a Union fort in South Carolina.
06/03/1861	A Hoosier Battle	Hoosier soldiers fought their first battle at Philippi, Virginia.
08/01/1862	The Second Battle of Bull Run	Union General John Pope and his army fought Confederate General Stonewall Jackson but lost the battle.
09/22/1862	Emancipation Proclamation	President Lincoln announced that the Emancipation Proclamation would be put into effect on the first of the year 1863.
07/08/1863	Morgan's Raid	Col. John Hunt Morgan, a Confederate cavalry leader, led hundreds of men through multiple states raiding to get people's attention off of the other larger battles going on.
11/01/1863	United States Colored Troop	The 28th United States Colored Troop was formed in Indiana.
04/09/1865	Civil War Ends	Confederate General Robert E. Lee stops fighting and surrenders, ending the Civil War.