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The anti-slavery group made the Republican Party. -
Allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to vote if slavery would be allowed or not. -
Lincoln was elected president, running in the Republican party. He won with 180 electoral votes. -
South Carolina held a secession convention in Charleston to depart from the United States. The debate was quick and short, South Carolina remained in the Union. -
Under this order, commanders could arrest and detain individuals who were deemed threatening to military operations. -
During his second inaugural address, Lincoln called out slavery, saying it was the reason for the war. -
The bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston. Began the Civil War. -
Once Virginia seceded, the Confederate government moved the capital to Richmond. -
The first major battle of the Civil War. -
Jefferson Davis was elected to serve a 6-year term as president of the Confederate States of America. -
History's first duel between ironclad warships and the beginning of a new era of naval warfare. -
Crucial victory for the Union during the war. -
Robert E. Lee joined as commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, leading it to be the most successful southern army of the Civil War. -
The deadliest one-day battle in American military history. It showed that the Union could stand against the Confederate army. -
One of the largest and deadliest battles of the Civil War. -
The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
A major victory for Robert E. Lee. -
Fought in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces. -
General John C. Pemberton surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Vicksburg. -
The government attempted to enforce the draft in New York City and it ignited the most destructive civil disturbance in the city's history. -
Lincon's speech after the battle of Gettysburg. He urged people to remember those who died and to honor the constitution. -
Atlanta was captured and it threatened the stability of the Confederacy. -
Abraham Lincon defeats democratic nominee, Geroge McClellan. -
Sherman made an expedition across Georgia by torching the industrial section of Atlanta and pulling away from his supply lines. -
Congress passed the amendment that ended slavery. -
Provided food, clothing, healthcare, and education for both black and white refugees in the south. -
The Union catches Richmond. -
Rober E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant which ended the Civil War. -
John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincon at Peterson House, Washington D.C. -
John Wilkes Booth was killed 12 days after he assassinated Lincon.