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ELECTION OF 1860
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CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA
A permanent government at Richmond, Va., replaced a provisional government, established in February 1861 at Montgomery, Alabama, a year later. President Jefferson Davis and Vice President Alexander H. Stephens headed the Confederacy, operating under a structure similar to that of the United States. The new nation soon acquired other symbols of sovereignty, such as its own stamps and a flag known as the Stars and Bars. -
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
Emancipation Proclamation did not free all slaves in the United States. Rather, it declared free only those slaves living in states not under Union control. William Seward, Lincoln's secretary of state, commented, Lincoln was fully aware of the irony, but he did not want to antagonize the slave states loyal to the Union by setting their slaves free. -
GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
In November of 1863, President Lincoln dedicated some of the battlefield as a cemetery in the gettysburg address. Lincoln admonished that the war was not a war between reigions but a fight for freedom -
APPOMATTOX COURTHOUSE
Early on April 9, the remnants of John Broun Gordon's corps and Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry formed line of battle at Appomattox Court House.
General Robert E. Lee determined to make one last attempt to escape the closing Union pincers and reach his supplies at Lynchburg.
At dawn the Confederates advanced, initially gaining ground against Sheridan's cavalry. The arrival of Union infantry, however, stopped the advance in its tracks.
Lee's army was now surrounded on three sides. Lee surrendered to -
LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION
On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, "Our American Cousin," President Abraham Lincoln was shot.The assassin, John Wilkes Booth, dropped the pistol and waved a dagger. Rathbone lunged at him, and though slashed in the arm, forced the killer to the railing. Booth leapt from the balcony and caught the spur of his left boot on a flag draped over the rail, and shattered a bone in his leg on landing.Though injured, he rushed out the back door, and disa -
13TH AMENDMENT
the 13th amendment that cuts out slavery in the constitution.It ended on December 6, 1865.It ended by a vote. -
FREEDMAN'S BUREAU
The congress created freedman's bureau. The job for it was to feed and cloth war refugees. The bureau also formerly enslaved people find jobs and negotiate labor contracts. They did'nt provide land. The freedman's bureau also worked closely with northern charities to eduate formly and slaved people. -
THE 14TH AMENDMENT
The 14th amendment to the constitution was ratified on July 9,1868 , and granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the u.s. -
15TH ADMENDMENT
The 15th admendment was presended to the congress on February 26,1869. The amendment was created to give equal voting rights to african-american citizens. The admendment became official on March 30, 1870 going black citizensthe right to vote . Before the 15th admendment was brought forth to congress each state was given the choice on deciding the citizens right to vote.
