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The Republican Party is one of the major political parties and was formed by Horace Greeley, Henry Jarvis Raymond, Alvan E. Bovay. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty. It lead to a violent uprising where proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote. -
In the 1860 Presidential election, there were four candidates: Republican Party Abraham Lincoln, who was eliminated from the ballot of ten slave states, Democratic Party John C. Breckinridge, Constitutional Union Party John Bell, Democratic Party Stephen A. Douglas. -
South Carolina General Assembly called for a convection where 169 delegates unanimously voted to secede from the Union. -
Confederate forces bombarded Fort Sumter, in South Carolina, the Union surrendered on April 13, starting the Civil War. -
Under this order, commanders could arrest and detain individuals who were deemed threatening to military operations. -
Jefferson Davis sent his Vice President, Alexander H. Stephens, there to try to coax secession. -
It was the first major battle of the Civil War, with a victory for the Confederate Army. -
After the southern states seceded from the United States and formed the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis ran unopposed and was elected the President of the Confederacy for a six-year term. -
In the Civil War, naval engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, a harbor at the mouth of the James River, notable as history's first duel between ironclad warships and the beginning of a new era of naval warfare. -
Lasting until April 7, 1862, fought in Tennessee, Battle of Shiloh allowed Union troops to penetrate the Confederate interior, with the human toll being the greatest of any war on the American continent up to that date. -
He led the Army of Northern Virginia from 1862 until its surrender in 1865. -
A battle fought between Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army and Union General George B. McClellan's Army near Sharpsburg, Maryland, Union claimed victory. -
The Union and Confederate fought in Fredericksburg, Virginia until December 15, resulting in a Confederate victory. -
The proclamation declared that all slaves are free in the rebellious states. -
This battle was fought until May 6, 1863 and was a major battle of the American Civil War, and the principal engagement of the Chancellorsville campaign. -
During the Civil War, the Union and Confederate fought around the town of Gettysburg until July 3, resulting in a Union victory. -
Confederate General John C. Pemberton surrenders to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Vicksburg, Mississippi, one of the Union's most successful of the war. -
Until July 16, white protestors attacked black people with violence throughout the city. -
President Abraham Lincoln delivered a short speech at the end of the ceremonies dedicating the battlefield cemetery to Union soldiers at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. -
Union Army General William Tecumseh Sherman lays siege to Atlanta, Georgia, a critical Confederate hub, cutting off supply lines. The Confederates retreated out of Atlanta. -
In the midst of the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln of the Union easily defeated the Democratic nominee, former General George B. McClellan -
Union General William T. Sherman begins his expedition across Georgia by torching the industrial section of Atlanta and pulling away from his supply lines. -
The 13th amendment formally abolished slavery. -
This provided food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans. -
President Abraham Lincoln spoke of mutual forgiveness, North and South, asserting that the true mettle of a nation lies in its capacity for charity. Lincoln presided over the nation's most terrible crisis. -
Confederate lines near Petersburg broke after a nine month seige, the retreat left the Confederate capital of Richmond defenseless. -
One of the last battles of the Civil War, Robert E. Lee sent a message to Grant announcing his willingness to surrender. -
A famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, John Wilkes Booth, shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre. -
John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.
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