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Ideas from the declining Free Soil Party led to the creation of the Republican party, Republicans were against slavery and believed the spread threatened the free labor system.
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The Supreme Court expand slaveholder's rights which led to an increase in sectional tensions.
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Republican Abraham Lincoln wins the 1860 Presidential Election even though his name wasn't on most ballots in the South. South Carolina chooses to not be under Lincoln's presidency and secedes from the Union.
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7 other states joined South Carolina and left the Union, forming the Confederate States of America and electing Jefferson Davis as president.
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Confederate soldiers fire the first shots of the war at Fort Sumter.
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Confederates shock the North with their victory of the first major battle of the Civil War,
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Battle ends with a title of being the bloodiest battle of the Civil War and a Union Victory.
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Following the Battle of Antietam, Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation that freed slaves and allowed them to join the Union army.
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Confederate general Stonewall Jackson is accidentally shot and killed by one of his own soldiers, but Confederacy still claims victory,
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Lincoln gives a short speech informing Americans that the war is almost over and to focus on rebuilding the Country.
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Johnson was accused of violating Office of Tenure Act after firing the Secretary of War, but was found innocent by one vote.
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Union general William Sherman led troops from a victory in Atlanta to the sea, aiming to destroy Confederacy's will to fight.
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John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln in the head at Ford's Theater.
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The Union takes over Richmond, the Confederate capital, causing Robert E. Lee to surrender the Confederacy at the Appomattox Court House.
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Republican and popular war hero Ulysses S. Grant was elected 18th president. He was thought of as a disappointing president due to political scandals and corruption during his presidency.
