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Antebellum
The period from 1784 to 1865 was a time of both expansion and division in the United States. After winning their independence from Britain in the Revolutionary War, Americans gradually expanded their nation to the West. -
Revolution of 1800
The United States Presidential election of 1800 was the 4th quadrennial presidential election. It was held from Friday, October 31 to Wednesday, December 3, 1800. In what is sometimes referred to as the "Revolution of 1800,Thomas Jefferson defeated John Adams. The election was a realigning election that ushered in a generation of Democratic-Republican Party rule and the eventual demise of the Federalist Party in the First Party System. -
Arkansas
The state of Arkansas was a part of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War, and provided a source of troops, supplies, and military and political leaders. Arkansas had become the 25th state of the United States, on June 15, 1836, entering as a slave state. Antebellum Arkansas was still a wilderness in most areas, rural and sparsely populated. As a result, it did not have early military significance when states began seceding from the Union. -
Dred Scott
Dred Scott was the name of an African-American slave. He was taken by his master, an officer in the U.S. Army, from the slave state of Missouri to the free state of Illinois and then to the free territory of Wisconsin. He lived on free soil for a long period of time. -
Kentucky
Kentucky was a border state of key importance in the American Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln recognized the importance of the Commonwealth when he declared "I hope to have God on my side, but I must have Kentucky."In 1860, slaves composed 19.5% of the Commonwealth's population, and many Unionist Kentuckians saw nothing wrong with the "peculiar institution." -
The Confederate Government Is Formed
The Confederate States or the Confederacy, was a government set up on February 8, 1861, by six of the seven southern slave states that had declared their secession from the United States.The Confederacy went on to recognize as member states eleven states that had formally declared secession, two additional states with questionable declarations, and one new territory. -
Battle of fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter (April 12–14, 1861) was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War. Following declarations of secession by seven Southern states, South Carolina demanded that the U.S. Army abandon its facilities in Charleston Harbor. -
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Virginia
Virginia voted to secede from the United States on April 17, 1861,after the battle of Fort Sumter and Abraham Lincoln's call for volunteers. On April 24, Virginia joined the Confederate States of America, which chose Richmond as its capital. -
Thomas Jonathan Stonewall Jackson
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson was a Confederate lieutenant general in the Civil War. He won his nickname at the Battle of First Bull Run (First Manassas), but it was his actions at Harpers Ferry in 1861, his 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign, and the flanking maneuver at the Battle of Chancellorsville that made him a military legend. -
Battle of Antietam
The battle of Antietam was the first major battle in the American Civil War. It is the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with 22,717 dead, wounded, and missing on both sides combined. -
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its greatest constitutional, military, and moral crisis—the American Civil War—preserving the Union, abolishing slavery, strengthening the national government and modernizing the economy. Emancipation proclamation in 1863 -
Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania between Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point. Between 46,000 and 51,000 soldiers from both armies were casualties in the three-day battle. -
Ulysses S. Grant's command of all Union armies
After General George Meade failed to pursue Lee in the wake of the Confederacy's defeat at Gettysburg, Grant was made commander of all Union armies in March 1864.Grant gave the Department of the Mississippi to Maj. Gen. Sherman, and went east to Washington, DC, to make and implement a strategy with President Lincoln to decisively win the Civil War in 1864, when Lincoln was facing re-election. -
James Ewell Brown Stuart
When Virginia seceded, Stuart resigned from the Us Army to join the Confederate Army. He was promoted to colonel under Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, and commanded cavalry units in the Army of Shenandoah. He soon was commanding all the cavalry brigades for the Army of Northern Virginia. After a few successful missions, Stuart was promoted to major general.Stuart’s last battle was to be at the Battle of Yellow Tavern on May 11th 1864 on the outskirts of Richmond. -
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Reconstruction
After four years of fighting, the Union was restored through the force of arms. The problems of reconstructing the Union were just as difficult as fighting the war had been. Because most of the war was fought in the South, the region was devastated physically and economically. Helping freedmen (ex-slaves) and creating state governments loyal to the Union also presented difficult problems that would take years to resolve. -
Battle of Appomattox Court House
The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought on the morning of April 9, 1865, was the final engagement of Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, and one of the last battles of the American Civil War.At the surrender ceremonies, about 28,000 Confederate soldiers passed by and stacked their arms. -
Robert E. Lee
Confederate general Robert E. Lee is perhaps the most iconic and most widely respected of all Civil War commanders. Though he opposed secession, he resigned from the U.S. Army to join the forces of his native state, rose to command the largest Confederate army and ultimately was named general-in-chief of all Confederate land forces. When he surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, it meant the war was virtually over. -
Ulysses S. Grant
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