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Battle of Bull Run
Lincoln had order and invasion in Vigirna in the summer. Union forces clashed with Confedrate soldiers. -
Fort sumeter
Start of the Civil War in South Carolina -
Battle of Antietam
Union forces went on the attack with Lee army. They both fight all day no one gained ground.Lee was forced to withdraw. 22,717 dead -
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln to upset the south he free slaves in the north. But the waited was the right moment and waited until lee was defeated -
Formation of 54th Mass
Most famous of all black regiments. African American soldiers led by white officers -
gettyburgs address
lincoln declared nation was founded in all men are equal, makes a plea to continue to fight for democracy -
new york city rioyts
were violent disturbances in Lower Manhattan, widely regarded as the culmination of working-class discontent with new laws passed by Congress that year to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War. -
defeat of vicksburg
After defeating a Confederate force near Jackson, Grant turned back to Vicksburg. -
Formation of 54th mass
The 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that saw extensive service in the Union Army during the American Civil War -
Sherman mach to sea
sherman's March to the Sea was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia -
Appormattox court house
The surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia the most celebrated Confederate army followed a defeat in the final battle of the war in Virginia. -
creation of freedman bureau
President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill creating the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands -
assassination of lincoln
assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth -
end of reconsruction
during which the states that had seceded to the Confederacy were controlled by the federal government before being readmitted to the Union. -
14th amendent
defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons -
15th amdenment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.