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Abraham Lincoln is elected president
Receiving 180 of 303 possible electoral votes and 40 percent of the popular vote. Abraham Lincoln became president. -
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civil war
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The Confederate States of America is formed. Jefferson Davis is elected the first president of the confederate states of America.
Southern states decide to secede from the union and form the confederate states of America were the new country makes things they way they want it. Which included making slavery legal. -
The Civil War begins.
At 4:30 a.m. Confederates under Gen. Pierre Beauregard open fire with 50 cannons upon Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. -
Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia Last for 4 days
The Union Army under Gen. Hooker is decisively defeated by Lee's much smaller forces at the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia as a result of Lee's brilliant and daring tactics. Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson is mortally wounded by his own soldiers. Hooker retreats. Union losses are 17,000 killed, wounded and missing out of 130,000. The Confederates, 13,000 out of 60,000. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The tide of war turns against the South as the Confederates are defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. -
Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders
Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders his Confederate Army to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the village of Appomattox Court House in Virginia. -
Abraham Lincoln shot!
The Stars and Stripes is ceremoniously raised over Fort Sumter. That night, Lincoln and his wife Mary see the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater. At 10:13 p.m., during the third act of the play, John Wilkes Booth shoots the president in the head. Doctors attend to the president in the theater then move him to a house across the street. He never regains consciousness. -
President Abraham Lincoln dies.
President Abraham Lincoln dies at 7:22A.M. -
John Wilkes Booth is shot and killed.
John Wilkes Booth is shot and killed in a tobacco barn in Virginia. -
The Thirteenth Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, is finally ratified. Slavery is abolished.
