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Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Territory from France for fifteen million dollars. It doubled the size of the country.
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The U.S. declared war on Great Britain because of British restrictions on U.S. trade and America's desire to expand its territory. America's victory on Lake Champlain ended the war. The Treaty of Ghent officially ended the war.
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Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States.
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South Carolina seceded from the U.S. because of "an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery." They were the first state to secede.
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In February of 1861, the seceded states met together and created the Confederate States of America. Jefferson Davis was elected president of these states.
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Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter when Abe Lincoln announced plans to resupply the fort. These were the first shots of the Civil War. It lasted for two days.
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The Battle of Bull Run was the first battle of the Civil War. It ended with a confederate victory.
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Abe Lincoln issued The Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862. It granted freedom to the slaves in the Confederate States if the States did not return to the Union by January 1, 1863. None of the states did so the slaves were free.
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The Battle of Gettysburg lasted from the first of July to the third and was the turning point of the war. This is because Confederate General Robert E. Lee's plan to invade the North failed. More than a than a third of Lee's army were lost.
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Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865. This ended the Civil War.
