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The Republican Party was created by abolitionists who opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act. -
Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and allowed residents to decide through popular sovereignty whether to permit slavery. -
On June 1st in 1860, Robert E. Lee was given the role to command the Army of Norther Virginia. -
Most of Lincoln's votes came from the North and the Republicans held little appeal to voters in the South. -
South Carolina was the first state to secede in 1860, the same year Abraham Lincoln was elected. This triggered the south slaveholders. -
After Mississippi seceded from the Union, Jefferson Davis who was a senator and Secretary of War was elected for president of the CSA (Confederate Sates of America). -
Confederate forces initiated the American Civil War by firing on the Union-held Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. -
During the Civil War, President Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus multiple times and it raised legal and constitutional questions, the Supreme Court sided with Lincoln. -
Richmond, Virginia, became the capital of the Confederate States of America -
It was the first major land battle of the American Civil War. The battle resulted in a Confederate victory and highlighted how inexperienced and unprepared the two sides were. -
It was the first engagement between armored ships in naval history, but the battle ended with a drawl -
It was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought on April 6-7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee at Pittsburgh Landing. -
The Battle of Antietam led the Union to victory, preventing Confederate General Robert E. Lee from invading the North on September 17. -
The Battle of Fredericksburg was a major victory for the Confederates in the American Civil War. The union army. -
It was declared by President Lincoln that all enslaved people in Confederate-held territory would be free. -
The battle was fought from March 30 to May 6. The Confederate Army was able to win the battle even when Robert E. Lee was outnumbered. -
The Battle of Gettysburg took place July 1-3 in 1863, was a turning point for the American Civil War and caused a lot of casualties. -
Confederate General John C. Pemberton surrendered the city of Vicksburg and troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. This ensured the Unions control over the Mississippi River. -
It was a series of violence that was a response to the Conscription Act of 1863. The riots were fueled by opposition to the draft, racial tensions, and the commutation clause in the act. -
The 2 minute speech was given to commemorate the Union soldiers who died during the Battle of Gettysburg and to dedicate the cemetery to them. -
Atlanta was captured by the Union forces as part of the Atlanta Campaign during the American Civil War. -
Lincoln defeated McClellan by 212–21 in the electoral college vote. -
Union General William Tecumseh Sherman began his "March to the Sea" campaign that his 62,000-man army traveled through Georgia, ultimately capturing the Confederate port city of Savannah. It took 37 days and they burned and destroyed Confederate infrastructure and resources in their path -
Congress passed an act to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners like newly freed African Americans. -
Abraham Lincoln gave is second inaugural speech as president and it reflected on the American Civil War's meaning and called for healing and reconciliation. -
The Confederate government and army evacuated Richmond on April 2, 1865, after being forced to abandon their positions at Petersburg. The Confederate officials ordered fires to be set to destroy warehouses and supplies, but the flames spread, causing significant damage. Union troops entered Richmond on April 3, taking control of the city and extinguishing the fires. -
It abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. -
Robert E. Lee surrenders the North Virginia Army to Ulysses S. Grant and it ended the American Civil War. -
On April 15, 1865, President Lincoln was assassinated at the Petersen House in Washington, DC. John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer and actor shot Lincoln in the back of his head. -
John Wilkes Booth was shot in the neck by a Federal soldier while he was trying to get out of a burning tobacco barn he kept hidden.