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This was an anti-slavery novel and was said to have helped lay the groundwork for the civil war
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This is one of the two major political parties in the United States
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This act allowed people in the Kansas-Nebraska territories to decide for themselves to allow slavery in there territory
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This case was considered the worst decision ever rendered by the Supreme Court
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John Brown was an Abolitionist and this raid on Harper's Ferry was to initiate an armed slave revolt by taking over the United States Arsenal
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John Brown was executed by hanging
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Lincoln had won the presidential election of 1860
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South Carolina was the first slave state to secede from the United States
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The Confederate forces surrounded the fort and began to fire at the fort at 2:30 pm on April 12, 1861
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The Confederate capital is moved to Richmond due to it's strategic importance
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Lincoln argued that it was both necessary and constitutional to suspend habeas corpus without congress
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Battle took place after confederates attacked Fort Sumter which belonged to the Union Army. The battle took place in Manassas, 25 miles out from Washington D.C
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Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederate States of America. He ran unopposed and was elected to serve a 6 year term
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Was history's first duel with ironcald warships
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The Confederates attacked the unprepared Federal soldiers however General Grant launched an overwhelming counteroffensive attack
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He commanded the Northern Virginia Army from 1862 until his surrender in 1865
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This battle was also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg. The battle was fought at Antietam Creek in Maryland. The battle was fought between the Confederate army and the Union army
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The Emancipation Proclamation was announced by Abraham Lincoln and it announced that if all the rebels didn't rejoin the union and end the fighting the rebellious states slaves would be free
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This was battle was fought in and around Fredricksburg between Robert E Lee's Confederate army and the Union army
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This battle resulted in a Confederate victory
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This battle was considered the most important engagement of the Civil War
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Vicksburg was the last major stronghold on the Mississippi river and capturing it was the second part of the Northern strategy also known as the Anaconda Plan
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These riots were due to the need for men to fight in the ongoing war so they were drafted
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The speech was given four moths after the Union Army's defeated the Confederates at Gettysburg
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The 13th Amendment abolished slavery
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The Union army took the city after overwhelming and defeating the Confederate army
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Abraham Lincoln wins the 1864 election against George McClellan
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General Sherman of the Union army led 60,000 soldiers from Atlanta to Savannah Georgia to frighten the civilian population to abandon the Confederate cause
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This was an agency of the United States directing issues such as Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
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Lincoln was inaugurated for his second time during the final days of the civil war and a month before he was assassinated
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The city fell to the Union army in 1865 and large parts of the city were destroyed by fires during the evacuation
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Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 troops to Union General Grant
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President Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C. by John Wilkes Booth
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John Wilkes Booth was killed after being hunted down by Union soldiers 12 days after the assassination of President Lincoln
