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The Republican Party was made in 1854 to go against the Kansas–Nebraska Act as well as expansion of slavery. -
A territorial act passing a law that created 2 new territories, and allowed popular sovereignty (States having the right to vote weather they are a slave state or free state.) -
Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States of America. -
The state of S.C decided to secede from the U.S because of the election of Lincoln and his views contradicted with the Southerners. -
Fort Sumter had been bombed by the South Carolina militia. Returning gunfire had been made and resulted in the surrender by the United States Army. This had started off the Civil War. -
Lincoln had suspended habeas corpus, which gave power to arrest and detain people who were deemed threatening to the government. -
The first major battle in the Civil War. The confederates won against the union both sides suffering casualties. -
Jefferson Davis had been elected to the Confederate States of America. -
History's first naval battle using ironclad warships. It was a Confederate attempt to break the Union blockade of Southern ports and was a neutral victory. -
The Confederates made a surprise attack on Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant in Tennessee. The Confederates could not hold their positions and were forced back so the battle resulted in a Union victory. -
Robert E. Lee, part of the Confederate States Army, is named commander of the Army of Northern Virginia. -
A deadly one-day battle between the Union and Confederate army. The Union claimed victory and the battle resulted in Lincoln releasing his Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862. -
A battle that took place in houses and on the streets of Fredericksburg. It was urban warfare between the Union and Federals resulting in a Union victory. -
Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, it declared "all persons held as slaves are, and henceforward shall be free." (In the allowed states.) -
Once Virginia seceded the Confederate government moved the capital to the South's second largest city, Richmond. 4 -
A huge Confederate victory for Robert E Lee.
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Robert E. Lee created a plan to invade the north, bringing the civil war to an end, yet it was stopped by the Union. -
General John C. Pemberton surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant after suffering heavy casualties and loss of supplies. -
Congress passed a law making all men 20 to 45 liable for the military. The government enforced the draft in New York yet started a huge NYC riot. -
President Lincoln gave a speech dedicating the battlefield a cemetery at Gettysburg. -
The Union commanded by William T. Sherman, captured an important supply hub and defeated Confederates defending the city. -
President Abraham Lincoln (National Union Party) defeated former General George B. McClellan (Democratic party) 212-21. -
William T. Sherman takes an expedition across Georgia, by his lead Georgia's civilian population was forced into abandoning the Confederate cause by use of fear. Sherman's soldiers stole food and livestock while they burned houses and barns of those resisting the campaign. -
Abolished slavery in the U.S. -
Congresses passed "Freedman's Bureau" which provides newly freed blacks with aid such as land, medical services, clothing and shelter. -
Lincoln tells the country that North and South should have mutual forgiveness, and that the true mettle of a nation is in its capacity for charity. -
Richmond was the capital of the Confederates and when taken down was a sign the confederacy was on it's last legs. -
President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth while at Fords theater. Booth did not agree with Lincolns presidency and campaign. -
John Wilkes Booth was killed by Union soldiers, who tracked him down 12 days after he assassinated Lincoln. -
Robert E. Lee surrenders 28,000 Confederate troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in the Appomattox Court House in Virginia. This brings an end to the Civil War.
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