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  • Republican Party is formed

    Republican Party is formed

    The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP ("Grand Old Party"), is one of the two major political parties in the United States.
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act passed

    Kansas-Nebraska Act passed

    Territorial organic act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.
  • Abraham Lincoln elected president

    Abraham Lincoln elected president

    Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party
  • Abraham Lincoln defeats George McClellan to win re-election

    Abraham Lincoln defeats George McClellan to win re-election

    Citizens went to the polls on November 8, re-electing Lincoln with 55 percent of the popular vote. He won 22 states and 212 electoral votes.
  • South Carolina votes to secede from the United States

    South Carolina votes to secede from the United States

    The official secession convention met in South Carolina following the November 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln
  • Richmond becomes the capital of the Confederacy

    Richmond becomes the capital of the Confederacy

    Confederate Capital City of Montgomery, Alabama, the decision was made to name the City of Richmond, Virginia as the new Capital of the Confederacy.
  • First Battle of Bull Run is fought

    First Battle of Bull Run is fought

    The first major battle of the conflict. Advancing into northern Virginia, Union and Confederate troops clashed near Manassas Junction.
  • Jefferson Davis elected president of the Confederacy

    Jefferson Davis elected president of the Confederacy

    He was the first and last president for the Confederates.
  • The Merrimac and the Monitor fight of the Virginia coast

    The Merrimac and the Monitor fight of the Virginia coast

    First duel between ironclad warships and the beginning of a new era of naval warfare.
  • The Battle of Shiloh was an early battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee.

    The Battle of Shiloh was an early battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee.

    The Battle of Shiloh was an early battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee.
  • Richmond falls to the Union Army

    Richmond falls to the Union Army

    Confederate capital of Richmond is captured The Rebel capital of Richmond, Virginia
  • Robert E. Lee is named commander of the Army of Northern Virginia

    Robert E. Lee is named commander of the Army of Northern Virginia

    Robert Edward Lee was an American Confederate general best known as a commander of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
  • Battle of Antietam

    Battle of Antietam

    Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union Gen. George B. McClellan's Army
  • Battle of Fredericksburg

    Battle of Fredericksburg

    Fredericksburg, Virginia, in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.
  • Emancipation Proclamation is announced

    Emancipation Proclamation is announced

    Nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states"
  • Battle of Chancellorsville

    Battle of Chancellorsville

    It was fought from April 30 to May 6, 1863, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, near the village of Chancellorsville.
  • Battle of Gettysburg

    Battle of Gettysburg

    One of the biggest battles of the war. It was held in the town of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania.
  • Confederates surrender at Vicksburg

    Confederates surrender at Vicksburg

    General John C. Pemberton surrenders to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Vicksburg, Mississippi.
  • New York City draft riots

    New York City draft riots

    The New York City draft riots, sometimes referred to as the Manhattan draft riots and known at the time as Draft Week.
  • Lincoln suspends habeas corpus

    Lincoln suspends habeas corpus

    law through which a person can report an unlawful detention or imprisonment to a court and request that the court order the custodian of the person.
  • Lincoln gives his Gettysburg Address

    Lincoln gives his Gettysburg Address

    The Gettysburg Address is a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War.
  • Atlanta is captured

    Atlanta is captured

    Atlanta was the spiritual center of the Confederacy and its' capture was a major blow to the South.
  • Sherman begins his March to the Sea

    Sherman begins his March to the Sea

    Sherman's March to the Sea was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia.
  • Freedman’s Bureau is created

    Freedman’s Bureau is created

    Abraham Lincoln signs a bill creating the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
  • Lincoln gives his second inaugural address

    Lincoln gives his second inaugural address

    Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address during his second inauguration as President of the United States.
  • Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox

    Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox

    This signaled the start of the end of the American Civil War.
  • President Lincoln assassinated

    President Lincoln assassinated

    Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the Untied States Of America. He was killed in a movie theater by John Wilkes Booth.
  • John Wilkes Booth is killed

    John Wilkes Booth is killed

    John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
  • Congress passes the 13th Amendment

    Congress passes the 13th Amendment

    The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude

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