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Where Abraham Lincoln won with 180 electroal votes
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Was a succession of seven states to form the Confederacy
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He appealed for the preservation of the Union and to retain his support in the North without further alienating the South
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Confederacy captures Fort Sumter beginning of the American Civil War Confederacy wins
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Confederate guerrilla group led by William Quantrill on the Unionist town of Lawrence, Kansas.
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It was the first major battle of the Civil War and resulted in a Confederate victory
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He ran unopposed and was elected to serve for a six-year term
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The major significance of the battle is that it was the first meeting in combat of ironclad warships, the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia
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Was a battle fought in the western theater of the American Civil War and was won by the Union
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Naval action by Union forces seeking to capture the city during the American Civil War was considered one of the worst disasters suffered by the Confederacy in the western theater of the war. Union victory
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t was much larger in scale and in the number of casualties than the First Battle of Bull Run resulting in a confederate win
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Tactically inconclusive; Union strategic victory
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an executive order issued by President Lincoln freeing slaves in all portions of the United States not then under Union control
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Entrapping a Confederate army under Lt. Gen. John Pemberton. Vicksburg surrendered after prolonged siege operations. Union victory
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is considered the turning point of the Civil War. Gen. Robert E. Lee's defeat by the Army of the Potomac forced his Confederate forces to retreat confederacy
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widely regarded as the culmination of working-class discontent with new laws passed by Congress that year to draft men to fight in the Civil War
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The unit was the first African-American regiment organized in the northern states during the Civil War. They were allowed to vote thanks to an equal rights bill passed in 1864
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the first combat submarine to sink an enemy warship, by the confederacy, it altered naval warfare forever.
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first battle of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's against Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army was inconclusiveness cause union continued with offense
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William Tecumseh Sherman overwhelmed and defeated Confederate forces defending the city
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Was an election against Lincoln and former General George B. McCellan
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Sherman intended to “make Georgia howl,” a plan that was approved by President Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant, general-in-chief of the Union armies.
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A successful assault by the Union Army against Fort Fisher, south of Wilmington, North Carolina
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where Lincoln took the oath during the final days of the Civil War and only a month before he was assassinated.
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General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Union and the resulting Battle of Appomattox Court House, which lasted only a few hours, effectively brought the civil war to an end
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President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Our American Cousin play at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C.
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The Union Army captured and destroyed the Confederate arsenal
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The most famous speech ever given by President Abraham Lincoln about his eulogy on the slain president,
