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an act that dissolved the terms of the Missouri compromise and allowed slave or free status to be decided int he territories by popular sovereignty -
this act repealed the Missouri Compromise, creating two new territories and allowing for popular sovereignty -
Lincoln won the votes by popularity. Most of the votes came from the Northern US. -
SC became the first state to secede from the federal Union -
Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in SC Charleston Harbor.
Union surrendered
the beginning of the Civil War. -
City of Richmond, Virginia
Moved to Richmond in recognition of Virginia's strategic importance -
Union vs Confederate,
35,000 Union troops marched from the federal capital in Washington D.C to strike a Confederatee force of 20,000 along a tiny river (Bull Run).
Confederate army won. -
a compromise between moderates and radicals -
USS Monitor won
beginning of a new era of navel warfare -
Also known as the Battle of Pittsburg landing
Union won. -
Given command of the Army of Nrthern Virginia (main Confederate army in the Eastern theater) -
(Also called the Battle of Shapsburg) Porved that the Union could stand against the Confederate army in the Eastern theater -
President AB Lincoln issued this proclamation suspending the writ of habeas corpus. The writ of habeas corpus is a tool preventing the government from unlawfully imprisoning individuals outside of the judicial process -
American Civil War fought at Fredericksburgs. One of greatest Confederate victories -
declared "...that all persons hel as slaves are, and henceforward shall be free." -
Confederate troops vs the Union
General Stonewall Jackson died
Despite that, General Lee was abt to move north into Maryland and invade Pennsylvania -
Big Civil War Battle, Union vs Confederates. Union won. -
went on for 47-days
grant first insisted on unconditional surrender, but Pemberton refuses -
the first lottery of the conscription law was held
the anger of working-class New Yorkers over a new federal draft law during the Civil War -
embraced the Delcaration of Independence.
Dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. -
Passed by the Senate
and by the House on 1/31/1865 -
Hood and Sherman tried there best to keep Atlanta
Hood was finally forced to abandon Atlanta to Union forces -
Occured during the Amerccan Civil War.
It was contested only by the states that had NOT seceded from the Union -
The most destructive campaign against a civilian population cruing the Civil War
concluded in Savannah on 12/21/1864
Union won -
Congress passed an act that is meant to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans -
AB Lincoln wanted to unify a broken nation -
Union troops began to march down Marin Street int he city
Confederate army won, which game the army a huge morale boost -
Grant realizes that Lee's army was running out of options, so he sent a letter to Lee on April 7 requesting the Confederate general's surrender -
Abe Lincoln shot in the back of the head during a play in a booth. -
Shot and killed by Boston Corbett (soldier) because he thought he saw Booth leveling his pistol at him