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Based on the idea of abolitionism, the Republican Party was formed, and became the main opponent of the Democratic Party. -
Lincoln was elected president in the election of 1860, causing the South to break away and elect their own president. -
Due to the disagreements over slavery in the United States, South Carolina became the first state to secede from the country and attempt to start a new country, called the Confederate States. -
Jefferson Davis was elected as the first and only president of the Confederacy. -
Considered the beginning of the Civil War, Confederate troops fired at Fort Sumter in North Carolina. -
As the Confederacy sought to become a true new country, the Confederate states changed their capital from Montgomery, Alabama to Richmond, Virginia in spring 1861. -
Known by the Confederate army as the Battle of Manassas, the Battle of Bull Run was the first major battle in the Civil War. -
At the Battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack, there was a naval duel between warships. -
With around 23,000 casualties, the Battle of Shiloh was considered one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War.
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Robert E. Lee was given command of the main army of the Confederacy, the Army of Northern Virginia. -
This battle, known as the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, with 22,727 casualties, took place in multiple cities in the Southern United States. -
In response to the Civil War, Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, arguing that people may be unlawfully arrested in extraordinary circumstances, such as the Civil War. -
This was a battle fought in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, lasting 4 days long, which the Confederacy won. -
Through the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln announced that slavery would be ended at last and all slaves would be set free. -
This 7 day long battle marked the death of General Stonewall Jackson and another Confederate victory. -
This was a battle fought in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, lasting 3 days long, which the Union won. -
After over 40 days of the siege of Vicksburg by the Union, the Confederates finally surrendered at Vicksburg. -
Over the course of 6 days, there were multiple urban disturbances in New York City, as a result of rage regarding competition for jobs between Black people and White people. -
The Gettysburg Address was a speech given by Lincoln, motivating the country to push through the war and find peace and unity. -
This act repealed the Missouri compromise, added two new territories, and decided that popular sovereignty would be used to decide whether slavery would be legal in these new territories. -
The Confederacy was forced to secede Atlanta to the Union after serious and long battling. -
In a surprising win for the Union, Lincoln was elected to a second term as President. -
In this march, a Union army led by Major General William Sherman marched through Georgia, destroying many Southern properties, ending on December 21, 1864. -
The thirteenth amendment made slavery illegal in the United States. -
Congress passed this act in order to provide basic needs for displaced Southerners. -
As the Civil War came to an end, Lincoln gave his thoughts in his second inaugural address, stating that the Union and the Confederacy were to unite and rebuild after the war. -
In a final victory for the Union, Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy, was captured by the Union after multiple failed attempts. -
Marking the end of the Civil War, Robert E. Lee finally surrendered the last Confederate army at the Appomattox Courthouse. -
President Lincoln was assassinated at the beginning of his second 4-year term by John Wilkes Booth, a pro slavery advocate, in an angry response to the Confederacy's loss in the Civil War and Lincoln's re-election. -
After assassinating President Lincoln, Booth was killed during a run from the police.