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Republican Party is formed
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Kansas-Nebraska Act passed
The act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty -
Abraham Lincoln elected president
Lincoln served as the 16th president of the United States -
South Carolina votes to secede from the United States
South Carolina was the first state to secede from the federal Union. -
Confederate forces fire on Fort Sumter
After a 34-hour exchange of artillery fire, Anderson and 86 soldiers surrendered the fort -
Lincoln suspends habeas corpus
He suspended between Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia to give military authorities the necessary power to silence dissenters and rebels -
First Battle of Bull Run is fought
Also known as the Battle of First Manassas -
Jefferson Davis elected President of the Confederacy
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The Merrimack and the Monitor fight of the Virginia coast
Also called Battle of Hampton Roads. During the Americal Civil War with naval engagement -
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Battle of Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh was an early battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War -
Robert E. Lee is named commander of the Army of Northern Virginia
He was an American Confederate general -
Battle of Antietam
The Southern United States, fought between the Union Gen. George B. McClellan and the Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee -
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Battle of Fredericksburg
Fought in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War -
Emancipation Proclamation is announced
President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation -
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Battle of Chancellorsville
A major battle of the American Civil War -
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Battle of Gettysburg
Fought in the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania by the Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. -
Confederates surrender at Vicksburg
The Confederacy is torn in two when General John C. Pemberton surrenders to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Vicksburg, Mississippi. -
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New York City draft riots
Known at the time as Draft Week, were violent disturbances in Lower Manhattan -
Lincoln gives his Gettysburg address
Lincoln delivered one of the most famous speeches in US History at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery -
Atlanta is captured
General William T. Sherman orders the business district of Atlanta, Georgia, destroyed before he embarks on his famous March to the Sea -
Abraham Lincoln defeats George McClellan to win re-election
Lincoln gets elected for a second term. -
Sherman begins his March to the Sea
Sherman begins his expedition across Georgia by torching the industrial section of Atlanta and pulling away from his supply lines -
Congress passes the 13th Amendment
The 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States -
Freedmen’s Bureau is created
Congress passed “An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees” -
Lincoln gives his second inaugural address
President Abraham Lincoln spoke of mutual forgiveness, North and South -
Richmond falls to the Union Army
Confederate lines near Petersburg broke after a nine-month siege -
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Richmond becomes the capital of the Confederacy
Davis and his government traveled to Danville as Richmond fell to the Federal army -
Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox
Lee surrenders his 28,000 Confederate troops to Union General Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War -
President Lincoln assassinated
He was assassinated at the Petersen House, Washington, D.C -
John Wilkes Booth is killed
He assassinated President Lincoln. Booth's cause of death was a gunshot wound.