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Major Events of the Civil War

  • Lincoln Elected

    Lincoln Elected

    Lincoln election was the main reason of the civil war. The whole state was split up because of slavery then Lincoln tried to abolish slavery.Lincoln was one of the first Republicans to be in office.(by National Constitution Center)
  • South Carolina Secedes

    South Carolina Secedes

    South Carolina won and was the first state to secede from the federal Union.When Abraham Lincoln won the election it triggered cries for disunion across the slaveholding South. (By U.S. National Park Service)
  • Confederation Formed

    Confederation Formed

    Six states join together to establish a unified government, which they named the Confederate States of America. The states met in Montgomery, Alabama to establish the Confederate States of America. (By History.com, A&E Television Networks)
  • Civil War Begins

    Civil War Begins

    Confederate troops shot at Fort Sumter but in about 30 hours Union forces gapped up and surrendered. They shot at him in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor. These was the event that started the Civil War but, in the senate the fall of Sumter is what caused the war.Then they decided that you could not be in the middle you could be on one side or the other. (By Civil War Begins.” U.S. Senate)
  • First battle of bull run

    First battle of bull run

    First battle of bull run was won by the confederal.The federal forces retreated to the defenses of Washington, DC. armies fought near Manassas Junction, Virginia. They tried to strike a confederal fours along a small river known as Bull Run.(by History.com Editors.)
  • Nava Battles: Monitor and Merrimack

    Nava Battles: Monitor and Merrimack

    The conference technically one because they made the rebellions ship Sunk close to Harbor.The battle happened at Hamptons Rd., Virginia Close to James River so the boats were near shore so one so much song and still stayed above water by the confederal’s won. (By Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.)
  • Battle of Shiloh

    Battle of Shiloh

    The union won that battle to win it they blocking the Union advance into Mississippi and made it impossible for the confederacy to win. The battle began when the Confederate Army launched a surprise attack on Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant. (By History.com Editors)
  • Second battle of bull run

    Second battle of bull run

    Even though General Lee had major losses He defended his post Against Pope and McClellan Which was double the size of his army, and made it a victory for the rebellion.(by History.com Editors.)
  • Battle of Antietam

    Battle of Antietam

    This was another major victory for the union, Even though it was Pretty much a stalemate.They won because they kept the confederal boxed in the area.The area that the confederal tried to take over was Washington county,MD. (By American Battlefield Trust)
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation

    Abraham Lincoln the President issued the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation clearly states that the proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."It did not change much but I still let some states free. (By National Archives)
  • Siege of Vicksburg

    Siege of Vicksburg

    Vicksburg campaign involved over 100,000 troops and resulted in near-certain Union control of the Mississippi River, effectively splitting the Confederacy in two. Also the Union won that’s battle. (By Editors, History .com.)
  • Gettysburg

    Gettysburg

    The main people involved with this battle is Jubas A. Early Robert E. Lee James Longstreet George G. Meade Daniel Edgar Sickles.The union won the battle against the confederacy. (By Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.)
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    Reconstruction of the South

    It was the effort to reintegrate Southern states from the Confederacy and 4 million newly-freed people into the United States. Even Black people gained a voice in government for the first time in American history.It also helped the economy grow so it is now bigger. (By History.com Editors.)
  • Lincoln Re-elected

    Lincoln Re-elected

    Lincoln Re-elected It helped the future so we could finish the Civil war and we would win the hole war. (Made by History.com, A&E Television Networks)
  • Robert E. Lee Surrenders

    Robert E. Lee Surrenders

    General Lee agreed to surrender his Army of Northern Virginia. It was one of the most economist’s thang the Union forces did which lead up to other giving up. (By National Constitution Center – Constitutioncenter.org,)
  • Lincoln Assassination

    Lincoln Assassination

    John Wilkes Booth Killed Lincoln. These affected the future by Inspection to the American people and it also in other chantry’s. (By History.com Editors.)