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Confederate Victory
Losses and Casualties - 6000 -
A union ship stopped a Brittish Ship and took two passengers, Confederate politicians, captive. This temporaliy strained relations between the Union and Great Brittion until the prisoners were released. (the photo depects James Mason, one of the Confederates taken prisoner)
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23000 casualties
Bloodiest battle at the time -
Confederate Victory
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Union Victory
Casualties - 22000
Losses - 15000 -
Confederate Victory
Casualties and Losses - 17000 -
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Decisive Union Victory
29000 Confederates surrendered
Losses and Casualties - 8000 -
The most decisive and bloodiest battle of the Civil War; Gettysburg saw an estimated 51,000 soldiers killed, wounded, missing, or captured.
The aftermath of this battle saw Lincoln give the Emancipation Proclamation as part of the Gettysburg Address. -
Those of the working class rioted to protest the draft; they considered it unfair that the wealthier could afford to pay someone else to take their place.
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Confederate Victory
Casualties - 35000 -
Delivered by Abraham Lincoln at the dedication ceremony for the cemetary on the lands where the Battle of Gettysburg was fought. Barely over two minutes long, this speech is considered to be one of the best and most important political speeches in American History.
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This would be a plan for reinstating the states that had left the Union. They would be recognized when ten percent of the population (as it was recognized in 1860) voted to rejoin.
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Inconclusive in terms of Winner
Casualties and Losses - 30000 -
It actually started the 31st of May, but the website won't let me add that for some reason.
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A bill vetoed by Lincoln that would have made it more difficult for formerly Confederate States to rejoin the Union.
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Union Victory
Casualties - 70000 -
Union Victory
Casualties and Losses - 10000 -
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The KKK was a group founded by six Confederate veterians that was against racial equality. It still exists - to a lesser degree - today. (i could not find an exact day, only the year)
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A government organization set aside to aid former slaves.
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Lincoln was assassionated while attending a perforamnce at the Ford Theater by a pro-Confederate rebel named John Wilkes Booth.
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This ammendment abolished slavery in the United States.
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Provided for the governing of the reinstated southern states.
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First impeachment of a sitting US President
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Ensured equal protection to all people under the law.
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Ensures voteing rights to all men, regardless of race.
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The time of rebuilding the south came to an end in 1877. I chose March 4 because that is the day that President Haynes (pictures in the painting) offically removed troops from the south.
