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South Carolina had been the very first state to secede from the Union because Lincoln had won the election and the south were slaveholders. -
Lincoln's first inaugural address took place at the U.S Capitol and had focused on trying to find a way that the south could keep their slaves where everyone would be happy and making sure the south knew Lincoln had no intention of taking them. -
This battle took place in Charleston and had started the Civil war in the United States of America. -
On this day, Lincoln suspended the writ of Habeus Corpus between the states D.C and Philadelphia in order to provide military authorities the power needed to silence dissenters and rebels. -
The Confederate capital had been moved to Richmond in recognition of the importance of the state, Virginia. -
This battle was fought in Prince William County, Virginia, and had resulted in a Confederate Victory. -
On November 6th, 1861, Davis ran unopposed and had been elected for a six-year term. He had the experience of being temporary for almost a year beforehand. -
In Hardin County, TN, the Union troops were able to penetrate the Confederate interior because of this battle. -
This event happened in a battle that had the goal to defend the city of Richmond from the Union army. -
This battle had ended the Confederate invasion of Maryland and ended with a victory for the Union. -
This battle was in and around Fredericksburg in the Eastern Theatre of the American Civil war with a confederate victory as the result. -
This proclamation and declared, "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
In Spotsylvania County, Virginia, there had been a Confederate victory and lasted for seven days. -
This battle took place in Gettysburg Pennsylvania and had the greatest amount of casualties and had put an end to Robert E. Lee's plan to invade the north-making some consider it the turning point of the war. -
The first naval battle between multiple warships in history was between the Merrimac and the Monitor. This was a part of the Confederacy's effort to destroy the Union blockade of southern ports that they wanted access to. -
There had been violent issues in Manhatten, New York, that were associated with the idea that people had been displeased with the new laws passed by Congress that year. -
Lincoln gave this address in Gettysburg Pennsylvania in order to dedicate the battlefield ceremony. -
Sherman captured Atlanta at the end of the battle of Atlanta. This battle was one of the Confederacy's final chances to win the war. -
He was defeated with ease with a popular vote of 55 percent during the 1864 presidential election. -
The campaign of Sherman marching to the sea began with the troops leaving Atlanta which has been captured and had ended with Port Savannah being captured. -
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States for good. It was passed by the Senate and the House. -
The goal of this bureau was to provide both the black and white refugees in the south with clothing, healthcare, and educational services. -
Lincoln explained in his Second Inaugural Address that his goal was to, "bind up the nation's wounds", that had been caused by the war and aim for peace. -
This was the most important and clear sign that the Confederacy had been coming to an end. -
In Appomattox Court House, Virginia, Robert had surrendered his 28,000 troops that were Confederates to the Union General who was Ulysse S. Grant at the time. This had ended the American civil war. -
On April 14th, 1856, at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C, John Wilkes Booth had shot Lincoln in the head and he had died from the wound the next morning. -
Booth had died from a gunshot wound and had been the man that assassinated Lincoln at Ford's Theatre.