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Sequence of events that occurred during the American Civil War.
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Twenty thousand New England shoe workers go on strike for higher wages. -
Overland mail between Sacramento California and St. Joseph's Missouri, is carried over the Oregon Trail for eighteen months by travelers on horseback. -
Abraham Lincoln is elected sixteenth president of the United States. The first republican president of the nation who opposes the act of slavery. -
Abraham Lincoln running anti-slavery campaigns defeats three opponents, Stephen A. Douglas, John Bell, and John C. Breckinridge. -
Hannibal Hamlin is elected vice president with Abraham Lincoln as president on November 6. -
South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the union. -
The Crittenden Compromise was an unsuccessful proposal that attempted to permanently ban slavery from the United States. -
President Buchanan fires his cabinet on December 20. -
Mississippi becomes the second state to succeed from the Union. -
Florida becomes the third state to secede from the Union. -
Alabama becomes the fourth state to secede from the union. -
Georgia becomes the fifth state to secede from the union. -
Texas becomes the seventh state to secede from the Union. -
Secessionists establish the Confederate States of America. -
Jefferson Davis is elected Provisinal President of the Confederacy. -
The Corwin amendment in an attempt to enshrine slavery forever is passed by congress. It is not ratified. -
The American Civil war begins at Fort Sumter -
The first battle of the Civil War Bull run occurs in Prince William County, Virginia. -
Fought in Wayne and Pulaski counties near current Nancy Kentucky. -
Battle of Roanoke Island takes place in North Carolina. -
Fought February 11-16 in the Western Theatre. -
Fought near Lee town, northeast of Fayetteville Arkansas. -
The Battle of Hampton Roads took place on March 8-9 in Hampton Roads, Sewell's point. -
The Homestead Act stated that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who never born arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land. -
The Second Battle of Bull Run was fought August 28-30 in Prince William County Virginia. -
Known as the bloodiest battle in the Civil War. -
Armed conflict between the United States and several bands of eastern Dakota. -
President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation that stated if the rebels did not end the fighting and rejoin the Union, by January 1st 1863, all slaves would be freed. -
The Emancipation Proclamation goes into effect. Some feel it did not go far enough to completely abolish slavery. -
Fought in Virginia, and was General Lee's greatest victory. -
Union attack, 240 miles south of Vicksburg. Heavy loss. -
Fought in Lousiana and was a union victory. -
Garrison of 30,000 was released on parole. -
Largest calvary battle of the war. A confederate victory. -
Battle right outside little Rock during the Union's conquest of Arkansas. -
Fought in Georgia and was a union defeat. -
Fought in Tennessee. This was a minor Confederate victory that ended serious fighting in the Knoxville campaign -
Fought in Tennessee, and was a union victory. -
Confederate victory over a union invasion of the northern east part of Florida. -
Confederate victory under General Richard Taylor over Union invasion into northern Louisiana. -
Union attempts second attack put is repulsed. -
Grant dispatched 10,000 calvary under General Sheridan in the south. Battle ended with his defeat. -
Ended with a Confederate victory. -
Union victory over Confederate force. -
Ended with a Confederate victory with a force of 8,000 union soldiers. -
This was the second of two confederate attempts to defeat the union army, which resulted in confederate losses. -
Confederate victory in the Shenandoah Valley. After this battle, the union withdrew over the Potomac -
This was an unsuccessful Union attempt to capture the port of Mobile. -
Ended with a Union victory that isolated Wilmington -
Sherman's army captures Columbia, state capital of South Carolina. -
Fought in North Carolina, Confederate victory. -
Fought in North Carolina and was a confederate defeat in attempt to Sherman's army. -
Confederate Attack on Fort Stedman in Richmond, and repulsed. -
Fought in Virginia and was a Union Victory -
Union attack let to the capture of Richmond, the confederate capitol. -
Lee's army was cut off by Union Forces. 6,000 confederates surrendered -
Lee's army makes their last attack, which was an attempt to break out from Appomattox Courthouse. -
Jefferson Davis is captured in Georgia on his way to Texas. -
The first ambulance goes into service. -
The US Congress rejects presidential veto giving all equal rights in the US -
The American Association of Equal Rights is formed. -
The American society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is formed. -
The US Congress authorizes the nickel 5 cent. -
Tennessee becomes the 1st Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union -
David Farragut is appointed as 1st Admiral in US Navy. -
Indelible pencil is patented by Edson P. Clark in Northampton Massachusetts -
25th Us Postmaster General Alexander W Randall of Wisconsin takes office -
The Metric System becomes a legal measurement system in the US -
Ulysses S. Grant is elected president and Schuyler Colfax Vice President of USA
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African American Men are given the right to vote in the district of Columbia -
Nebraska becomes the 37th state of the United States -
The Russian Empire purchases the Alaska Territory, -
The first elevated railroad is put into use in the United States. -
Thomas Edison is fired from the Western Union. -
The United States takes control of Midway Island -
The name Alaska was chosen for the state by the Americans. The transfer ceremony takes place. -
Congress passes a series of Reconstruction Acts, which results in the period of Radical Reconstruction. -
The Treasure of Office act enforced which forbid the president to remove civil officers without senatorial consent