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South Carolina held a secession convention in Charleston. Representatives voted, 169 to 0 for secession -
Lincoln promised not to interfere with slavery where it already existed. Then he pledged to stop the activities of the federal government temporarily in areas of hostility -
Over 3,300 shells and shots had been fired at the fort during the 34-hour bombardment by 43 Confederate guns. -
He suspended the habeas corpus to give military authorities the necessary power to silence riots and rebels. Normally the Habeas Corpus enforces the right of a prisoner's case to be looked at by a judge to determine if their sentence is lawful. -
Once Virginia seceded, the Confederate government moved the capital to Richmond -
The first major battle of the American Civil War. The battle was fought, in Prince William County, Virginia. -
He ran without opposition. The election confirmed the decision that had been made by the Confederate Congress earlier in the year. -
Also called Battle of Hampton Roads, and known as history's first duel between ironclad warships and the beginning of a new era of naval warfare. -
Allowed Grant to begin a giant operation in the Mississippi Valley later that year. Big success for the Union Army, led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Tennessee -
One of the most successful Southern armies during the Civil War, and eventually commanded all the Confederate armies. As the military leader of the defeated Confederacy, Lee became a symbol of the South of America -
Great Britian wants nothing to do with the confederacy, leaves the confederacy all by themselves -
One of the most significant battles of the civil war. Had many Union casualties, the largest river crossing of the war, and it also boosted the Confederate hopes of victory. -
Emancipation Proclamation declared all enslaved people in the states currently engaged in rebellion against the Union would be free and unowned by there slaveholders -
Considered Robert Lees greatest military victory. It became the bloodiest Battle in American History. Joe Hooker was no match for Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia -
Gave the North a morale boost and put an end to Confederate General Robert E. Lee's plan to invade the North -
Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton surrendered the city of Vicksburg and the Confederate garrison surrendered to Major General Ulysses S. Grant. They surrendered because they were holding out for more than forty days, and there supplies was basically gone, Garrison surrendered -
Was a victory of U.S. forces, which brought back a Confederate invasion, marking a turning point in the Civil War. His speech was to dedicate a piece of land that would become the Soldier's National Cemetery. Lincoln also had to inspire the people to continue the fight -
Union Army General William Tecumseh siege to Atlanta, Georgia, a important Confederate area , closing civilians and cutting off supply lines. -
Abraham Lincoln of the National Union Party defeated the Democratic nominee, George B. McClellan, by 212–21 in the electoral college, with 55% of the popular vote. -
Sherman's March to the Sea’s objective was, to hinder the Confederacy's ability to wage war. -
Abolished owning slaves in the southern United States -
Congress passed “An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees” -
Only 41 days before his assasination he took and oath to office to "bind up the nation's wounds" caused by the Civil War and to move toward peace -
Lee agreed to surrender his Army of Northern Virginia, marking an end to the Civil War. They agreed to a“not to take up arms against the Government of the United States.” -
President Abraham Lincoln was shot in a theater. Accompanyed by his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, a twenty-eight year-old officer named Major Henry R -
After he was shot, either a soldier or himself, carried Booth to the porch of the farmhouse, where he then died.