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Trent Affair
A Union ship interceptes 2 Confederate leaders that were traveling to Great Britain and France to plea for help in the war. -
Shiloh
The confederates launched a surprise attack on Grant's army and achieved great success on the first day. However, they eventually were defeated by the Union forces. -
Antietam
The Battle of Antiam was the first major battle fought on Union soil. It still remains the bloodiest one-day battle in Americas history. -
Fredericksburg
The Battle of Fredricksburg is one of the most one-sided battles of the American Civil War, with Union casualties more than twice as many as the Confederates suffered. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order by President Lincoln. It proclaimed that slaves were free in each of the 10 states rebelling against the Union. -
Siege of Vicksburg
The Siege of Vicksburg was the final military action that was part of the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. -
Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysberg was fought in the small Pennsylvania town and was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. -
New York City draft riots
The New York City draft riots were a series violent disturbances in New York City that were 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. -
Ten percent plan
The ten percent plan decreed that a state could be reintegrated into the Union when 10% of the 1860 vote count from that state had taken an oath of allegiance to the U.S. and pledged to abide by Emancipation. -
Fort Pillow
The Battle of Fort Pillow concluded with a massacre of Federal black troops, many while trying to surrender, by soldiers under Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest's command. -
Cold Harbor
It was one of the final battles of Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign during the American Civil War, and is remembered as one of American history's bloodiest, most lopsided battles. -
Wade-Davis Bill
The bureau was founded as a United States federal government agency that aided distressed freed slaves. -
Atlanta
The Battle of Atlanta was a battle of the Atlanta Campaign. Afterwards, Sheman's troops continued to carry out Sherman's March to the Sea. -
Franklin
The Battle of Franklin was part of the Franklin–Nashville Campaign of the American Civil War. It was one of the worst disasters of the war for the Confederate States Army. -
Nashville
The Battle of Nashville was a two-day battle in the Franklin-Nashville Campaign. It represented the end of large-scale fighting in the Western Theater of the Civil War. -
Black Codes
The laws were designed to replace the social controls of slavery that had been removed by the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. -
Freedmen's Burea
The bureau was founded as a United States federal government agency that aided distressed freed slaves. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln was assassinated by John Wiles Booth whilst he was at the theater. -
Thirteenth Amendment
The 13th amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except as punishment for crime in the United States of America. -
Ku Klux Klan
The KKK rapidly grew from a secret social fraternity to a paramilitary force bent on reversing the federal government's progressive Reconstruction Era-activities in the South, especially policies that elevated the rights of the local African American population. -
First Reconstruction Act
An Act to provide for the more efficient Government of the Rebel States
Passed over President Johnson’s veto. -
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Johnson was impeached on February 24, 1868, in the U.S. House of Representatives on eleven articles of impeachment detailing his "high crimes and misdemeanors", in accordance with Article Two of the United States Constitution. -
Fourteenth Amendment
The 14th Amendment stated that no state could deny any person of life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness. -
Fifteenth Amendment
The 15th Amendment prohibits states from denying a persons right to vote simply based on their race. -
End of Reconstruction (Compromise of 1877)
The Compromise of 1877 was an unwritten deal that settled the 1876 U.S. presidential election (which had been controversial), pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South, and ended the Reconstruction Era. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Act outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or nationality. It ended racial segregation and unequal voting applications.
