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Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter is a sea fort in Charleston, South Carolina, notable for two battles of the American Civil War.No deaths accrued here. -
The First Battle of Bull Run
The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as the First Battle of Mananas, was fought on July 21, 1861 in Prince William County, Virginia. -
Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam particularly in the Southern United States, was a battle of the American Civil War, fought between Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army and Union General George B. McClellan's Army. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation, or Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln . It changed the federal legal status of more than 3 million enslaved people in the designated areas of the South from slave to free. -
Formation of the 54th Mass.
The 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that saw extensive service in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The unit was the first African-American regiment organized in the northern states during the Civil War.Authorized by the Emancipation Proclamation. -
The Battle of Gettysburg
This was the turning point of the American Civil War.This battle occurred in the most casualties in all of the Battles in the war.Since the Union Army won this Battle it halted the Confederacy from invading the North. -
Defeat of Vicksburg
In the summer of 1863, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s Army of the Tennessee converged on Vicksburg on the Mississippi River, investing the city and trapping a Confederate army under Lt. Gen. John Pemberton. The city was located on a high bluff, and Union occupation of the town was critical to control of the strategic river. This battle lasted 5 days before the union army won the battle of Vicksburg. -
New York City Draft Riots
They were violent disturbances in Lower Manhattan, widely regarded as the culmination of working-class discontent with new laws passed by Congress that year to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War. The riots remain the largest civil and racially charged insurrection in American history, aside from the Civil War itself. -
Gettysbury Adress
Speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, and one of the best-known speeches in American history.[4][5] It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania -
Sherman's March to the Sea
A Military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 until December 21, 1864, by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army. The campaign began with Sherman's troops leaving the captured city of Atlanta on November 15 and ended with the capture of the port of Savannah on December 21. -
Serender at Appamatox Court house
Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. ... But the resulting Battle of Appomattox Court House, which lasted only a few hours, effectively brought the four-year Civil War to an end. -
Creation of Freedman's Bureau
President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill creating the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. Known as the Freedmen's Bureau, this federal agency oversaw the difficult transition of African Americans from slavery to freedom. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play,[2] Lincoln died the following day at 7:22 a.m., in the Petersen House opposite the theater.[3] He was the first American president to be assassinated;[4] his funeral and burial marked an extended period of national mourning. -
congress passes the 13th amendment
The 13th Amendment states "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. -
14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment states that 'All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." -
The 15th Amendment
The 15th Amendment states "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." -
End of Reconstruction
Reconstruction started after the war ended in May 13,1865 the southerners had to rebuild all of the damages caused by the war by the time they were all don't with the Reconstruction a lot had happened and by that time they had already started the Jim crow laws cause congress abolished slavery . -
Supreme Court Case Plessy vs. Ferguson
A decision of the U.S. Supreme Court issued in 1896. It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality – a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".