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The day of Lincoln's election and soon after the first state secedes from the USA.
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The very first battle of the war, tensions high in the south but the north thought they had it. South wins
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A plan to try and squeeze the life out of the south so they have no choice but to give up (In theory).
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The war was a draw, both sides losing massive amounts of men. Union had the upper hand because we found their plans in a cigar but didn't execute on them.
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Lincoln issues this as soon as he can start making laws in office and it makes all slaves free in the rebellious states.
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Biggest and greatest battle for the south. Robert E. Lee's greatest victory of the civil war but it came with a cost of hist best soldiers life, Jackson dies.
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The turning point for the civil war.Lee's army is looking for supplies.The first mistake Lee makes of the civil war and it costs him. Union win.
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Vicksburg falls and will continue to split the south in half giving the north an advantage.
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was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth. while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. Kill John W. Booth 12 days after assassination.
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The only possible candidate to run against Lincoln is McClellan. The man Lincoln fired earlier in the year for losing against lee time and time again. Lincoln wins.
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10% plan. get at least 10 percent of the population in the south to be on the north's side. 13th amendment was made.black suffrage.
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The U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, popularly known as the Freedmen's Bureau, was established in 1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War
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This was the most malicious group and specifically for the blacks. Even though the blacks were free they didn't have much.
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With the Radical Republicans fully in control of Congress after the mid-term elections of 1866.These acts divided the south into five military districts.
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Johnson had made many of his constituents and had been impeached by Congress. Although Johnson kept his office, his presidency was crippled. After numerous ballots, the Democrats nominated former New York Governor Horatio Seymour to take on the Republican candidate, Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant. Grant wins
