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Trent Affair
A Union ship intercepted two Confederate leaders who were traveling to Great Britain and France to plea for their help in the war. -
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Battle of Shiloh
The confederates launched a surprise attack on Grant's army and achieved great success on the first day, however they were eventually defeated by the Union forces. -
Battle of Antietam
It was the first major battle fought on Union soil, it still remains the bloodiest one-day battle in Americas history. -
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Battle of Murfreesboro
Although the battle itself was inconclusive, the Union Army's repulse of two Confederate attacks and the subsequent Confederate withdrawal were a much-needed boost to Union morale after the defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg, and it dashed Confederate aspirations for control of Middle Tennessee. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order by President Lincoln proclaimed that slaves were free in each of the 10 states rebelling against the Union. -
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Battle of Gettysburg
The battle was fought in the small Pennsylvania town and was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. -
New York City Draft Riots
They 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. -
Gettysburg Address
It was an address to the United States as a whole country after the Civil War. It stated that the war was fought for the freedom of each countryman and was fought to keep the Union together. -
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Battle of Chattanooga
Ulysses S. Grant was given significant reinforcements to defeat the attacks of Gen. Braxton Bragg on Chattanooga. -
Lincoln Proposed 10% Plan
It 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. -
Battle of Fort Pillow
The battle ended with a massacre of Federal black troops, some while attempting to surrender, by soldiers under the command of Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Military historian David J. Eicher concluded, "Fort Pillow marked one of the bleakest, saddest events of American military history." -
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Battle of the Wilderness
The battle was the first of Grant's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, the battle was inconclusive to who won it. -
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Battle of Spotsylvania
Grant's army disengaged from Confederate General Robert E. Lee's army and moved to the southeast, attempting to lure Lee into battle under more favorable conditions. -
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Battle of Colds 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. -
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Siege of Petersburg
This was one of the major battles fought with trench warfare by the Union army to try and siege Petersburg. -
Wade-Davis Bill
The Wade-Davis Bill of 1864 was a bill proposed for the Reconstruction of the South written by two Radical Republicans, Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio and Representative Henry Winter Davis of Maryland. -
Freedman's Bureau Founded
The bureau was founded as a United States federal government agency that aided distressed freed slaves. -
Lincoln's Assassination
Lincoln was assassinated by John Wiles Booth whilst he was at the theater. -
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StatesBegin to Pass 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. -
13th Amendment Passed
The 13th amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except as punishment for crime in the United States of America. -
KKK Founded
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. -
1st Reconstruction Period
An Act to provide for the more efficient Government of the Rebel States
Passed over President Johnson’s veto. -
Impeachment of 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. -
14th Amendment Passed
The 14th Amendment stated that no state could deny any person of life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness. -
15th Amendment Passed
The 15th Amendment prohibits states from denying a persons right to vote simply based on their race. -
End of Reconstruction
Multiple things helped to reconstruct the nation after the Civil War. -
Hayes-Tildan Compromise
A secret “gentlemen’s agreement” in the USA between the leaders of the Republican Party, representing the Northern bourgeoisie, and the Democratic Party, linked with the plantation owners of the South. -
Civil Rights Act
The Act outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or nationality. It ended racial segregation and unequal voting applications.
