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Lincoln's proclamation was declared to free the slaves, though it did not go into effect immediately.
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While the Confederate Army had countless volunteers, the Union Army had to enact a draft for sufficient soldiers.
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Gettysburg, PA was the site of the biggest turning point in the Civil War
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Abraham Lincoln defeated General George B. McClellan in the race for president during one of the highest points in the Civil War.
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Napoleon III installed Maximilian of Austria as the temporary emperor of Mexico.
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General William Tecumseh Sherman led Union troops from Atlanta to Savannah in a successful one-month period
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Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia, ending the Civil War.
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Just days after the Union's triumph in the Civil War, John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln at Ford Theater.
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The Freedmen's Bureau was formed to assist former slaves adjusting to their new freedom.
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The KKK was a white supremacist group formed mostly by southerners to spread terror to African Americans
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The Thirteenth Ammendment outlawed slavery in all parts of the United States.
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The Tenure of Office Act prevented the President from removing any of his cabinet officials.
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America bought Alaska for 7.2 million dollars and made it a state almost a century later.
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Andrew Johnson was impeached by the House of Representatives, but narrowly survived in the Senate.
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The Fourteenth Ammendment officially defined what an American Citizen was, helping Civil Right's groups.
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Ulysses S. Grant became president due to his success as a war general in the Civil War.
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The Fifteenth Ammendment prevented the government from withholding voting rights from any person of color.
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A financial depression spread across the country in 1873 as railroads boomed.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1875 aided African Americans at the time, but it was deemed unconstitutional only a few years later.
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Rutherford B. Hayes became President during the end of the Reconstruction Era.
