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Jefferson Davis Farewell
Davis was a United States soldier and statesman, and was the President of the Confederate States of America during the entire Civil War which was fought from 1861 to 1865. -
Missouri compromise
Missouri and Maine became states.2) part of the Mason Dixon line, the line that separated the North and the South, was established.3) This compromise kept the balance between free and slave states for 30 years. -
Compromise of 1850
In 1850, Henry Clay had resolved a fiery debate over the spread of slavery with his Missouri Compromise.1850 consisted of five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding was when the Kansas territory was the site of much violence over whether the territory would be free or slave. -
Kansas-Nebraska act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory. -
John Brown Raids
was an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown's raid, accompanied by 20 men in his party, was defeated by a detachment of U.S. Marines led by Col. Robert E. Lee. John Brown had originally asked Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass to join him in his raid. -
The Election of 1860
The Democrats met in Charleston, South Carolina, in April 1860 to select their candidate for President in the upcoming election. By the election of 1860 profound divisions existed among Americans over the future course of their country, and especially over the South's peculiar institution, slavery. -
Inauguration
The inauguration marked the commencement of the first four year term of Abraham Lincoln as President and Hannibal Hamlin as Vice President. -
Fort Sumter
On April 12, 1861, General P.G.T. Beauregard, in command of the Confederate forces around Charleston Harbor, opened fire on the Union garrison holding Fort Sumter. At 2:30pm on April 13 Major Robert Anderson, garrison commander, surrendered the fort and was evacuated the next day. -
Battle of Vicksburg
In May and June of 1863, Ulysses S. Grant’s armies converged on Vicksburg, investing the city and entrapping a Confederate army under John Pemberton. The first attempt to capture Vicksburg in summer 1862 is sometimes called the First Battle of Vicksburg. It consisted of prolonged bombardment by Union naval vessels and sputtered out when the ships withdrew. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, as the country entered the third year of the Civil War. It declared that all persons held as slaves should be forever free, but it applied only to states designated as being in rebellion, not to the slaveholding border states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri or to areas of the Confederacy that had already come under Union control. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee concentrated his army around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, upon the approach of Union Gen. George G. Meade’s forces. On July 1, Confederates drove Union defenders through Gettysburg to Cemetery Hill. The next day Lee struck the flanks of the Union line resulting in severe fighting at Devil's Den, Little Round Top, the Wheatfield, Peach Orchard, Culp’s Hill and East Cemetery Hill. On July 3rd, fighting raged at Culp’s Hill with the Union regaining its lost ground. -
Sherman’s march to sea
The campaign began with Sherman's troops leaving the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia, on November 15 and ended with the capture of the port of Savannah on December 21. His forces destroyed military targets as well as industry, infrastructure, and civilian property and disrupted the South's economy and its transportation networks. Sherman's bold move of operating deep within enemy territory and without supply lines is considered to be revolutionary in the annals of war. -
Gettysburg Address
November 19,1863.President lincoln said a speech which was famous because it was in honor of the soldiers who died in the battle of gettysburg. -
Appomattox court house
Appomattox court house was the final engagement of Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. -
Assassination of Lincoln
On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War. -
Battle of palmito ranch
The Battle of Palmito Ranch was the last land battle of the American Civil War. It took place in the extreme southern tip of Texas, near Brownsville.
