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Lincoln Elected President
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Confederacy is formed
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The Morril Tariff Act
Raised tariff rates to increase revenue and protect American manufacturers -
Fort Sumter attack
- In the harbor of CHarleston, South Carolina
- Cut off from bital supplies and reinforecements by southern control of the harbor
- Lincoln annouced he was sending food to the smaller federal garrison - Gave South Carolina the choice of permitting the for to hold out or to open fire
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(Manassas) Bull Run the 1st Battle
30,000 federal troops marched from D.C. to attack Confederate forces near Virginia -
Trent Affair
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Monitor vs. Merrimac
Destroyed wooden sailing ships to revolutionize the future of naval warfare -
Homesstead Act
Promoted settlement of the Great Plains by offereing pracels of 160 acres of public land free -
The Pacific Railway Act
Authorized the building of a transcontentinental railroad over a northern route in order to link the economies of California and the western territories with the eastern states -
Morrill Land Grant Act
Encouraged states to use the sale of federal land grants to maintain agricultural and technical colleges -
Battle of Bull Run (Mannassas) 2nd Battle
Lee strikes quickly at Pope's army in Northern Virginia. -
Antietam
Battle in Maryland that ended Lee's first invasion of the North. Bloodest day in the war -
Emancipation Proclamation
Free all the slaves in the states
- Lincoln called it a "military necessity" -
Fredericksburg
General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac (commanded by Major General Ambrose Burnside) -
Habeas Corpus Suspension Act 1863
The right to not be held in prision without being first held with a crime, Lincoln suspended this -
Gettysburg
Pennsylvania, ended in Union victory. Last offensive attack from South -
Vicksburg
Mississippi - Vicksburg surrender to Grant. Mississippi River = under Union Control -
Sherman's March to the Sea
Led by General William Tecumseh Sherman. Led 100,000 men on a campaign for deconstruction, they destroyed everything they saw. -
The Election of 1864
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13th Amendment passed
Abolished slavery. Ratified Decembe 6, 1865 -
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
Final engagement of the Confederate States Army. Lee's army surrendered to the Union Army