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Served as the president of the Confederate states from 1861 to 1865. -
Abraham Lincoln, who preserved the Union during the American Civil War
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Representatives from South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana met in Montgomery, Alabama, with representatives from Texas arriving later, to form the Confederate States of America. -
William Tecumseh Sherman was an American soldier. -
Harriet Tubman was born into slavery, and is an abolitionists and political activists. -
US president of the united states form 1869 to 1877. He was also a American military leader. -
Confederates general in the American civil war. -
The Kansas-Nebraska act allowed each territory to decide the issue of slavery. -
An effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
1860 was the first and only time the party ran a candidate for president. The results of the 1860 election pushed the nation into war.
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The site of the first shots of the Civil War.
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The American Civil War was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, a collection of eleven southern states that left the Union in 1860 and 1861
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Union and Confederate armies clashed near Manassas Junction, Virginia.
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The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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The Battle of Gettysburg, fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863, is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War.
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A movement of the Union army troops of General William Tecumseh Sherman from Atlanta, Georgia, to the Georgia seacoast, with the object of destroying Confederate supplies.
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The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. -
Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including former enslaved people. -
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
