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Emancipation Proclamation.
It gave slaves freedom in the ten states then in rebellion, The Proclamation immediately freed 50,000 slaves, but it did not outlaw slavery and it didn’t make the freedmen citizens. -
The First Conscription Act.
Because of recruiting difficulties, an act was passed making all men between the ages of 20 and 45 liable to be called for military service. The act was seen as unfair to the poor, and riots in working-class sections of New York City broke out in protest. -
The 54th Massachusetts.
The 54th Massachusetts was the first all-Black regiment to fight in the Civil War. The heroism of the Black men who fought that day was relayed throughout the North (and South). With the end of the Civil War, the 54th Massachusetts was disbanded, in August 1865. -
The siege of Vicksburg.
The Siege of Vicksburg (May 18 – July 4, 1863) was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. In a series of maneuvers, Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton into the defensive lines surrounding the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. -
The Battle of Gettysburg.
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War. it is often described as the war's turning point. Union Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade's Army of the Potomac defeated attacks by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, ending Lee's invasion of the North. -
The Gettysburg Address.
The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and is one of the most well-known speeches in United States history. It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg. -
General Grant commander of all the Union Armies.
Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877) and a prominent military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction. Grant's aggressive military style was in compliance with the Federal governments strategic war aims. When the American Civil War began in 1861, Grant trained Union volunteer regiments as a colonel, and engaged the Confederates near Cairo, Illinois. In 1862, he fought a series of bat -
Resistance by Slaves.
Enslaved African Americans resisted slavery in a lot of active and passive ways. Running away was another form of resistance. Most slaves ran away short distances and weren’t trying to permanently escape from slavery. Instead, they were temporarily withholding their labor as a form of economic bargaining and negotiation -
Civil War Prison Camps
An estimated 56,000 men perished in Civil War prisons, a casualty rate far greater than any battle during the war's bloody tenure. Prisons often engendered conditions more horrible than those on the battlefield. More than 150 prisons were established during the war. All were filled beyond capacity, with inmates crowded into camps -
Confederate Troops Approach Washington, D.C.
Confederate General Jubal Early led his forces into Maryland to relieve the pressure on Lee's army. Early got within five miles of Washington, D.C., but on July 13, he was driven back to Virginia
