Timeline

By T0nyity
  • 1492

    1st Europeans Arrive at New World

  • Puritans Arrive on the Mayflower

  • Boston Tea party

  • Irish Immigration

  • Irish Potato Famine

  • Lincoln won the presidential election

    “On November 6, 1860, Lincoln won the presidential election without the support of a single Southern state. Talk of secession, bandied about since the 1830s, took on a serious new tone. The Civil War was not entirely caused by Lincoln’s election, but the election was one of the primary reasons the war broke out the following year.”

  • South Carolina Secedes

    The South Carolina Secedes was when South Carolina became the first southern state to secede from the united states.

  • Virginia Secedes

    “On February 13, 1861, delegates representing all counties in Virginia met to decide how the state would respond to recent events, especially Abraham Lincoln's election and South Carolina's secession. They voted to remain in the Union and hoped that a compromise could be reached to defuse the situation. Two months later, the same men voted to secede from the United States, sparking a radically different war than might otherwise have taken place.”

  • The Battle of Fort Sumter

    “The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States’ Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the Union that started the American Civil War.”

  • 1st Battle of Bull Run

    This was the first major land battle of the armies in Virginia. On July 16, 1861, the untried Union army under Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell marched from Washington against the Confederate army, which was drawn up behind Bull Run beyond Centreville.

  • Homestead Act

  • Jefferson Davis Elected President of the Confederacy

    “Davis had been elected President and Alexander H. Stephens, who had been elected Vice President, under the Provisional Confederate States Constitution, were elected to six-year terms (February 22, 1862 – February 22, 1868) as the first permanent President and Vice President of the Confederate States of America.” Wikipedia

  • Antietam

    “also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the Southern United States, was fought on September 17, 1862, between Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac, near Sharpsburg, Maryland” Wikipedia

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln. The proclamation states “that all persons held as slaves” within a certain area “are, and henceforward shall be free.”

  • Vicksburg

    In the summer of 1863, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s Army of the Tennessee converged on Vicksburg on the Mississippi River, investing the city and trapping a Confederate army under Lt. Gen. John Pemberton.On May 25th, Grant decided to besiege the city. With no reinforcements coming, food and supplies nearly gone, and after holding out for more than forty days, Pemberton finally surrendered on July 4th.

  • Gettysburg

    The Battle of Gettysburg, fought in July 1863, was a Union victory that stopped Confederate General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North. More than 50,000 men fell as casualties during the 3-day battle, making it the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War.

  • Fort Wagner

    Fort Wagner was a fort built on Morris Island on the edge of the bay. The fort had 30-foot walls and was heavily protected by artillery's.

  • March to the Sea

  • Atlanta Campaign

  • Overload Campaign

  • Siege of Petersburg

  • Reelection of Lincoln

  • Lee's army surrenders

  • Lincoln's Assassinsated

  • Joseph Jhonston's army surrenders

  • Appomattox

    Harried mercilessly by Federal troops and continually cut off from turning south to reach Gen. Joseph Johnston's army in North Carolina, General Robert E. Lee headed west along the Appomattox River, eventually arriving in Appomattox County on April 8th. His objective was the South Side Railroad at Appomattox Station where food supplies awaited. Union cavalry under Brig. Gen. George A. Custer reached them first, capturing then burning three supply trains.

  • Chinese Immigration

  • Jewish Immigration

  • Italian Immigration

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Mexican Immigration

  • The National Origins Act

  • Dream Act