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Republican party is formed
the republican party was founded in Northern America. It quickly became very popular. -
Kansas Nebraska act
it repealed the Missouri Compromise, allowed for popular sovereignty, and created two new territories. It also later brought the uprising of antislavery and pro slavery people. -
Emancipation Proclamation is announced
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
Abraham Lincoln elected president
Abraham Lincoln was elected president and almost all his votes were from the Northern United States. -
South Carolina votes to secede from the United States
South Carolina was the first state to secede from the federal union -
Confederate forces fire on Fort Sumter
Confederate troops fire on Fort Sumter, less then 36 hours later Union forces surrendered. -
Richmond becomes the capital of the Confederacy
the decision was made to name the city Richmond as the new capital of the confederacy. -
First Battle of Bull Run is fought
Confederate and union armies fought and it was the bloodiest battle 3,000 wounded/killed for the union and 2,000 for the confederacy. -
Jefferson Davis elected president of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis was the first and only president of the Confederate. -
The Merrimac and the Monitor fight of the Virginia coast
Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack, (March 9, 1862), in the American Civil War, naval engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, a harbour at the mouth of the James River, notable as history's first duel between ironclad warships and the beginning of a new era of naval warfare. -
Battle of Shiloh
major battle in the American civil war, it took place in southwestern Tennessee -
Robert E. Lee is named commander of the Army of Northern Virginia
Robert E. Lee commanded the Army of Northern Virginia, the most successful of the Southern armies during the American Civil War, and ultimately commanded all the Confederate armies. As the military leader of the defeated Confederacy, Lee became a symbol of the American South. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point. -
Battle of Antietam
23,000 soldiers were either missing, injured, or killed. Led Lincoln to use the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation -
Lincoln suspends habeas corpus
Lincoln had a Presidential Proclamation 94 which led to the suspension of habeas corpus -
Battle of Fredericksburg
one of the largest and deadliest battles -
Battle of Chancellorsville
This battle leaded to the death of General Stonewall Jackson -
Confederates surrender at Vicksburg
With the situation dire for the Confederates, Grant and Pemberton meet between their lines. Grant insists on an unconditional surrender, but Pemberton refuses. Later that night Grant reconsiders and offers to parole the Confederate defenders. On July 4, the 47-day siege of Vicksburg is over. -
New York City draft riots
Support for conscription was far from universal in the North, and public resistance culminated in the Draft Riot of 1863, a racially charged four-day melee in which white rioters attacked federal buildings and African American workers in the streets of New York City. -
Lincoln gives his Gettysburg Address
The speech was given at the official dedication of the Soldiers National Cemetery -
Lincoln assassinated
assassination of Abraham Lincoln, murderous attack on Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on the evening of April 14, 1865. Shot in the head by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln died the next morning -
Atlanta is captured
Sherman's goal was to destroy the Army of the Tennessee, capture Atlanta and cut off vital Confederate supply lines. While Sherman failed to destroy his enemy, he was able to force the surrender of Atlanta in September 1864, boosting Northern morale and greatly improving President Abraham Lincoln's re-election bid. -
Sherman begins his March to the Sea
the most destructive campaign against a civilian population during the civil war. -
Abraham Lincoln defeats George McClellan to win re-election
McClellan rejected the piece with the confederacy. -
Congress passes the 13th Amendment
congress passed the 13th amendment which 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.” -
Freedman's Bureau is created
On March 3, 1865, Congress passed “An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees” to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans. -
Lincoln gives his second inaugural address
in the final weeks of the civil war, Lincoln delivered his second inaugural adress -
Richmond falls to the Union Army
Over the next three days, the Confederate government evacuated, mobs looted countless stores, fire consumed as many as a thousand buildings, the Union army occupied the city, thousands were emancipated from bondage, and President Abraham Lincoln toured the former Confederate Capital. -
Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox
he surrendered his army to Ulysses S Grant leading to the end of one of the bloodiest conflicts in American History. -
Booth is killed
One soldier, Boston Corbett, approached the barn and claimed to have seen Booth leveling his pistol at him, so Corbett fired a round from his revolver. The bullet severed Booth's spinal cord and paralyzed him. John Wilkes Booth died three hours later. His last words were spoken while looking at his hands.