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The Antebellum era begins!
This is the era where everything leads up to the war. Everything is accountable for creating the tention that creates the war. -
Andrew Jackson
The president for this era up until 1837. Also the seventh president thus far in american history. -
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Antebellum Era
The period that lead up to the Civil War. -
The War Of 1812
A war between the United States and Great Britain. -
Slave Trade Conflict
The Missuri Compramise was passed on this date, granting Missouri statehood as a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase -
Indian Removal Act
President Andrew Jackson called for an act to negociate with the native americans. -
Martin Van Buren
Was the 8th president of the united states and the president during the war. -
Trail of Tears
As a result of the Indian Removal Act. 46,000 Native Americans had to leave there homes. -
Union generals
The top Union generals before and during the civil war. Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman -
The first to secede.
South Carolina legislature had previously sworn to secede from the Union if Lincoln was elected, and the state declared its secession on December 20, 1860. -
The states secede!
Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina promptly voted to secede. Kentucky declared its neutrality. -
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The war
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Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, and it immediately took effect in those states which left the union. The proclamation did not apply to the slave states remaining in the union. By the end of war, the proclamation had freed practically all the slaves in the Confederacy. -
The Battle of Gettysburg
The biggest battle of the civil war, nearly 47,000 soldires died. -
Surrender of Vicksburg
Ulysses S. Grant delivered the city when the Army of Mississippi surrendered after a prolonged siege. -
Ulysses S. Grant
On this day he was granted the power to command the union army as general. -
Lincoln offers reunion.
As late as February 1865, Lincoln offered peaceful and honorable reunion, with cash to purchase all the slaves; his offer was rejected by rebel leaders who dreamed of independence even as the nation was collapsing, and its armies fought in the last trenches. -
Reconstruction begins
Reconstruction began as soon as the Union Army took control of a state and ended the war. -
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Reconstruction
The era where everyone regains everything in which they used to live by. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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 deaths
The Confederate army lost 94,000 killed in battle and another 164,000 who died of disease. Official counts of the wounded are far too low, at 194,000. -
Equality
The former slave owners now had to let blacks vote, run for office, and learn. -
The technical reconstruction
The South had to rebuild houses, buildings, farms, and stores, while little of the North had been destroyed. -
Grant, Ulysses S. becomes president!
The popular civil war general became president and served his term 1869-1877
