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Within a week, the strike had spread to 25 other New England towns, including towns in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and even New York. 20,000 more shoemakers refused to work while 20,000 others openly supported the shoemakers with marches, parades and opposition to the police. -
In the Cooper Union speech or address delivered by Abraham Lincoln stated his views on slavery. He stated that is should not spread west and that the founding fathers would agree with him -
The Pony Express was an American express mail service that used relays of horse-mounted riders. The Pony Express reduced the time for messages to travel between the east and west US coast to about 10 days. -
Abraham Lincoln is selected as the U.S. presidential candidate for the Republican Party. He is chosen to run against John C. Breckinridge, Stephen A. Douglas, and John Bell. -
Shortly after Abraham Lincoln was elected, senator James Henry Hammond gives up his seat. -
Abraham Lincoln elected president and Hannibal Hamlin vice president with only 39% of the vote in a four man race.. -
In Columbia South Carolina, the first seccesion convention meets to dicuss succending to create the Conferdercy. Just 3 days later they would meet again and vote 169 to 0 to leave the union -
Introduced on december 18th, 1860 by senator John J. Crittenden the Crittenden Compromise was an unsuccessful proposal to permanently preserve slavery in the United States Constitution, and thereby make it unconstitutional for future congresses to end slavery. -
After the election of Abraham Lincoln, South Carolina decided to suceed from the United States of America. -
South Carolina issues the Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Justifies the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union.
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On January 9th 1861 Mississippi became the second state to suceed from Union shortly after South Carolina -
On Janurary 10th 1861 Florida succeds from the Union and becomes the 3rd state to succeed -
Jefferson Davis is elected to be the provisional president for the confederacy -
The first inauguration of Abraham Lincoln as the 16th president of the United States was held on Monday, March 4, 1861, at the East Portico of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. -
Fort Sumter was the opening scene of the Civil War, the confederacy bombarded Union troops at Fort Sumter which ended in a Union surrender. -
On April 18, 1861, U.S. Army regular soldiers and volunteers set fire to the U.S. Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry. Confederates quickly targeted the Harpers Ferry Armory and Arsenal for its stockpile of guns. -
Residents of the western counties of Virginia did not wish to secede along with the rest of the state. This section of Virginia was admitted into the Union as the state of West Virginia on June 20, 1863. -
Suddenly aware of the threat of a protracted war and the army's need for organization and training, Lincoln replaced McDowell with General George B. McClellan. -
Known as the first major battle of the Civil war. The battle was fought on July 21, 1861, in Prince William County, Virginia. -
The Battle of Belmont was fought on November 7, 1861 in Mississippi County, Missouri. It was the first combat test in the American Civil War for Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. -
The Battle of Shiloh was an early battle in the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee. The battle is named after a small church in the vicinity named Shiloh -
The Battle of Williamsburg, also known as the Battle of Fort Magruder, took place on May 5, 1862, in York County, James City County, and Williamsburg, Virginia, as part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War -
Passed on May 20, 1862, the Homestead Act accelerated the settlement of the western territory by granting adult heads of families 160 acres of surveyed public land for a minimal filing fee and five years of continuous residence on that land. -
The Battle of Seven Pines, also known as the Battle of Fair Oaks or Fair Oaks Station, took place on May 31 and June 1, 1862, in Henrico County, Virginia, nearby Sandston, as part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War -
General Robert E Lee takes control of the amry of Northern Virginia. Lee is a revered general and crucial part of the civil war. -
The Battle of Cedar Mountain, also known as Slaughter's Mountain or Cedar Run, took place on August 9, 1862, in Culpeper County, Virginia. -
The Battle of Richmond, Kentucky, fought August 29–30, 1862, was one of the most complete Confederate victories in the war by Major General Edmund Kirby Smith against Union major general William "Bull" Nelson's forces, which were defending the town. It was the first major battle in the Kentucky Campaign. -
The Battle of Antietam, or Battle of Sharpsburg particularly in the Southern United States, was a battle of the American Civil War fought on September 17, 1862. -
The Battle of Iuka was fought on September 19, 1862, in Iuka, Mississippi, during the American Civil War. In the opening battle of the Iuka-Corinth Campaign, Union Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans stopped the advance of the Confederate Army -
The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War. -
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
On May 10th 1863 confederate general Thomes Stonewall Jackson is mistakingly shot by his own men. -
The Battle of Jackson was fought on May 14, 1863, in Jackson, Mississippi, as part of the Vicksburg campaign during the American Civil War. -
The Battle of Big Black River Bridge was fought on May 17, 1863, as part of the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. -
The Siege of Vicksburg (May 18, 1863-July 4, 1863) was a decisive Union victory during the American Civil War (1861-65) that divided the confederacy and cemented the reputation of Union General Ulysses S. Grant (1822-85) -
In April 1863, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the admission of West Virginia into the Union effective June 20, 1863. -
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. -
Ulysses S Grant fights hard and proves himself at vicksburg as a worhty general -
The Battle of Bayou Fourche, also known as the Battle of Little Rock and the Engagement at Bayou Fourche, took place on September 10, 1863, in Pulaski County, Arkansas, and was the final battle of the Little Rock Campaign. -
The ten percent plan, formally the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (13 Stat. 737), was a United States presidential proclamation issued on December 8, 1863, by United States President Abraham Lincoln, during the American Civil War. -
Uylssess S Grant is put in charge of all troops, he is a far more aggresive general and willing to take the risk that Lincoln wants. -
The Battle of Fort Pillow, also known as the Fort Pillow massacre, was fought on April 12, 1864, at Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River in Henning, Tennessee, during the American Civil War -
The bloody Battle of the Wilderness, in which no side could claim victory, marked the first stage of a major Union offensive toward the Confederate capital -
The Battle of New Market was fought on May 15, 1864, in Virginia during the Valley Campaigns of 1864 in the American Civil War. A makeshift Confederate army of 4,100 men defeated the larger Army of the Shenandoah under Major General Franz Sigel -
The Wade–Davis Bill of 1864 was a bill to guarantee to certain States whose governments have been usurped or overthrown a republican form of government. -
Nevada became the 36th state on October 31, 1864, after telegraphing the Constitution of Nevada to the Congress days before the November 8 presidential election -
Lincoln is re-elected as president with Andrew Johnson as vice president in 1864 -
Sherman's March to the Sea was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 until December 21, 1864, by William Tecumseh Sherman, major general of the Union Army. -
The Sand Creek massacre was a massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the U.S. Army in the American Indian Wars that occurred on November 29, 1864, -
By the end of this march, cities and towns were destroyed and burned, railroads were ripped out of the ground and the route Sherman took left a path of destruction. -
The Second Battle of Fort Fisher was a successful assault by the Union Army, Navy and Marine Corps against Fort Fisher, south of Wilmington, North Carolina, near the end of the American Civil War in January 1865 -
The Battle of Bentonville was fought in Johnston County, North Carolina, near the village of Bentonville, as part of the Western Theater of the American Civil War. It was the last battle between the armies -
The Battle of Five Forks was fought on April 1, 1865, southwest of Petersburg, Virginia, around the road junction of Five Forks. -
The Rebel capital of Richmond, Virginia, falls to the Union, the most significant sign that the Confederacy is nearing its final days. For ten months, General Ulysses S. Grant had tried unsuccessfully to infiltrate the city. -
General Robert E Lee meets General Grant at Appotomax court and settles on an agreement for surrender. -
Presdient Lincoln is killed just 6 days after the confederacy surrenders. John Wilkes booth kills him and escapes. -
All elements left of the Confederacy surrender. The war is officaly over the day that Lincoln dies. -
The manhunt was one of the biggest in U.S. history, involving nearly 1,000 Union soldiers. Booth eluded capture for almost 2 weeks, but on April 26, 1865, his luck finally ran out. -
The House of Representatives on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the required 27 of the then 36 states on December 6. -
Shortly after Lincolns death, these racially motivated groups came out of hiding during Andrew Johnsons term. -
The result was a set of Black Codes passed in early 1866. These granted a set of rights: to own property, make contracts, and some other innovations. They also included new vagrancy and apprentice laws, which did not mention Blacks explicitly but were clearly directed toward them. -
The transcontienal rialroad was a rialroad then went from the east coast to the west coast. -
A cemetary was built to honor stonewall jackson and many of the confederate soldiers who lost thier lives. -
The Seattle riot of 1886 occurred on February 6–9, 1886, in Seattle, Washington, amidst rising anti-Chinese sentiment caused by intense labor competition -
Andrew Johnson vetos the civil rights bill thinking it was worse then letting it happen -
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 declared all persons born in the United States to be citizens, "without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude." -
A Republican-dominated Congress enacted a landmark Civil Rights Act on this day in 1866, overriding a veto by President Andrew Johnson. -
May 16 – The United States Congress approves the minting of a nickel 5-cent coin (nickel), eliminating its predecessor, the half dime. -
Patriotic organization of American Civil War veterans who served in the Union forces, one of its purposes being the “defense of the late soldiery of the United States, morally, socially, and politically.” -
After the war, the state legislature ratified the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution on July 18, 1866, and was the first state readmitted to the Union on July 24, 1866. -
In the district of columbia African-American men were allowed to vote. -
On March 1, 1867, President Andrew Johnson reluctantly signed the proclamation declaring Nebraska's statehood. The signing ended the life of a territory which thirteen years earlier had been organized amid controversy. -
The Tenure of Office Act was a United States federal law in force from 1867 to 1887 that was intended to restrict the power of the president to remove certain office-holders without the approval of the Senate. -
The Reconstruction Act of 1867 outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states. The bill divided the former Confederate states, except for Tennessee, into five military districts. -
On March 30, 1867, the United States reached an agreement to purchase Alaska from Russia for a price of $7.2 million. The Treaty with Russia was negotiated and signed by Secretary of State -
July 2 – The first elevated railroad in USA begins service in New York. -
July 17 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established as the first dental school in the United States -
President Andrew Johnson's Veto of the Third Reconstruction Act, July 19, 1867 ... President Andrew Johnson took a lenient approach to restoring the rebel states -
Johnson's attempt to remove Secretary of War Edwin Stanton from office without the Senate's approval led to the impeachment of Johnson in early 1868 for violating the act. -
September 30 – The United States takes control of Midway Island
