How and why civil war

civil war

By sean gavin
  • Abraham Lincoln elected 16th President of the United States

    Abraham Lincoln elected 16th President of the United States

    Lincoln received only 40 percent of the popular vote but handily defeated the three other candidates
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    Lincoln signs the Homestead Act

    it is about of Lincoln and if family moved
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act

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    U.S. Marines storm engine house at Harpers Ferry VA (now WV) and capture John Brown

    John Brown, a staunch abolitionist, and a group of his supporters left their farmhouse hide-out en route to Harpers Ferry.
  • U.S. troops move to occupy Baltimore, Maryland

    U.S. troops move to occupy Baltimore, Maryland

  • U.S. troops move to occupy Baltimore, Maryland

    U.S. troops move to occupy Baltimore, Maryland

  • bull run

    bull run

    this was the first major land battle
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    The Battle of Pea Ridge

    Gen. Samuel R. Curtis' Union Army of the Southwest had pushed into Arkansas and established a defensive position on the bluffs overlooking Little Sugar Creek.
  • Battle of McDowell, Virginia

    Battle of McDowell, Virginia

    Gen.Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's Campaign through the Shenandoah Valley during the American Civil War.
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    The Second Battle of Fort Fisher

    The Confederate garrison surrendered, opening the way for a Federal thrust against Wilmington