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Battle of New Orleans
Is the greatest victory of the U.S
It makes Andrew Jackson famous -
Kansas and Nebraska Act
Douglass introduces the bill to congress which would divide Nebraska territory into tow new states.
Would also repeal the missouri Compromise. -
Bleeding Kansas Starts
voting for status of freedom and slave shape.
Border ruffians from missouri ( Slave state ) -
Attack on Lawrence Kansas
group of southerners looted newspaper offices and homes.
Destroyed 2 priniting presses and Antislavery HQ set aflame -
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Makes Decision
Slaves do not have the rights of citzens. -
Pottawatomic Massacre
pulled 5 men out of bed and cut off their hands and stabbed them.
went to Pottawatomic creek -
Harpers Ferry
Believed that it was time for a slave up rising
Virgina up brown wanted too take over slavery. -
Southern Secession
South begins to cry for "States Rights".
Wanted complete independence of souther states from federal gov't. -
Mississippi goes next
they go fight, for their rights.
And then Florida and Alabama etc -
Confederate States of American
meet in Montgornery and formed the confederacy.
Constitution resemblemd the unions but this one protected and wsa recongnized. -
Fort Sumter
Lincoln takes office.
Fort sumter was the more important fort -
Lincoln's Inauguration
At Lincoln's inauguration on March 4, the new president said he had no plans to end slavery in those states where it already existed, but he also said he would not accept secession. He hoped to resolve the national crisis without warfare. -
Davis Chooses to Engege war
Beauregard opens fire on the fort.
SC gave Fort Sumter with more than 4,000 rounds. -
West Virginia Is Born
Residents of the western counties of Virginia did not wish to secede along with the rest of the state. This section of Virginia was admitted into the Union as the state of West Virginia on June 20, 1863. -
Battle of First Bull Run
Inexperiered soldiers both sides
Union on way to richmond -
Abraham Linchon takes action
On January 27, President Lincoln issued a war order authorizing the Union to launch a unified aggressive action against the Confederacy. General McClellan ignored the order. -
Fort Henry
Confederate fort - TN , river
Union army headed by US Grant -
Monitor vs Merrmack
Monitor is the union irondad
Merrimack is the confederate irondad -
The Battle of Shiloh
Confederate forces attacked Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant at Shiloh, Tennessee. By the end of the day, the federal troops were almost defeated -
New Orleans
Flag Officer David Farragut led an assault up the Mississippi River. By April 25, he was in command of New Orleans. -
Seven Days Battle
Union and Confederate forces fought a series of battles: Mechanicsville (June 26-27), Gaines's Mill (June 27), Savage's Station (June 29), Frayser's Farm (June 30), and Malvern Hill (July 1). On July 2, the Confederates withdrew to Richmond, ending the Peninsular Campaign. -
Pope's Campaign
Union General John Pope suffered defeated at the Second Battle of Bull Run on August 29-30. General Fitz-John Porter was held responsible for the defeat because he had failed to commit his troops to battle quickly enough; he was forced out of the army by 1863. -
Antietam
Confederate forces under General Lee were caught by General McClellan near Sharpsburg, Maryland. This battle proved to be the bloodiest day of the war; 2,108 Union soldiers were killed and 9,549 wounded -- 2,700 Confederates were killed and 9,029 wounded. -
The Battle of Fredericksburg
General McClellan's slow movements, combined with General Lee's escape, and continued raiding by Confederate cavalry, dismayed many in the North. On November 7, Lincoln replaced McClellan with Major-General Ambrose E. Burnside. Burnside's forces were defeated in a series of attacks against entrenched Confederate forces at Fredericksburg, Virginia, and Burnside was replaced with General Joseph Hooker. -
Gettysburg
Union and Confederate run into each other.
Union take high ground but eventually leaves position. -
The Vicksburg Capaign
Union General Grant won several victories around Vicksburg, Mississippi, the fortified city considered essential to the Union's plans to regain control of the Mississippi River. On May 22, Grant began a siege of the city. After six weeks, Confederate General John Pemberton surrendered, giving up the city and 30,000 men. The capture of Port Hudson, Louisiana, shortly thereafter placed the entire Mississippi River in Union hands. The Confederacy was split in two. -
The Battle of Chancellorsville
Union General Grant won several victories around Vicksburg, Mississippi, the fortified city considered essential to the Union's plans to regain control of the Mississippi River. On May 22, Grant began a siege of the city. After six weeks, Confederate General John Pemberton surrendered, giving up the city and 30,000 men. The capture of Port Hudson, Louisiana, shortly thereafter placed the entire Mississippi River in Union hands. The Confederacy was split in two. -
Vicksburg
Confederate will surrender
Sends infanty to Vicksburg -
Battle of Chickamauga
Union and Confederate forces met on the Tennessee-Georgia border, near Chickamauga Creek. After the battle, Union forces retreated to Chattanooga, and the Confederacy maintained control of the battlefield. -
Gettysburg Address
First Orator spoke for 2 hours
Lincoln speahes for 2 mins -
Confederate Troops Approach
Confederate General Jubal Early led his forces into Maryland to relieve the pressure on Lee's army. Early got within five miles of Washington, D.C., but on July 13, he was driven back to Virginia. -
Shermans March
Burns Atlanta
Takes Svannah -
Fort Fisher
After Admiral David D. Porter's squadron of warships had subjected Fort Fisher to a terrific bombardment, General Alfred H. Terry's troops took it by storm on January 15, and Wilmington, North Carolina, the last resort of the blockade-runners, was sealed off. Timothy H. O'Sullivan promptly recorded the strength of the works and the effects of the bombardment. -
13th Amendment
Free Slaves
Rebuild U.S specifically south -
Fallen Richmond
General Lee attacked General Grant's forces near Petersburg, but was defeated -- attacking and losing again on April 1. On April 2, Lee evacuated Richmond, the Confederate capital, and headed west to join with other forces. -
War Officially Wins
Lee surrenders.
Lee and Grant agree too meet in appomatbox house. -
Shots
shots were fired,
Fords thatre Washington DC -
Assassination of President Lincoln
President Lincoln was watching a performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., he was shot by John Wilkes Booth, an actor from Maryland obsessed with avenging the Confederate defeat. Lincoln died the next morning. Booth escaped to Virginia -
Execution Of Captain Henry Wirz
The notorious superintendent of the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia, was tried by a military commission presided over by General Lew Wallace from August 23 to October 24, 1865, and was hanged in the yard of the Old Capitol Prison on November 10. -
Battle of Seven pines
Confederate army attacked federal forces at Seven Pines, almost defeating them; last-minute reinforcements saved the Union from a serious defeat. Confederate commander Joseph E. -
McClellan Loses Command
President Lincoln -- impatient with General McClellan's inactivity -- issued an order reorganizing the Army of Virginia and relieving McClellan of supreme command. McClellan was given command of the Army of the Potomac, and ordered to attack Richmond.
