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Repealed the Missouri Compromise and added two new states, and began letting new states choose to be a slave or free state. -
Abe Lincoln had won the 1860 election, which caused Southern States to threaten with secession -
States had already seceded and the Civil War was starting, so Abraham Lincoln used his Second Inaugural speech to call out slavery for the start of the war.
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Beginning of the Civil War, the Confederates bombarded Fort Sumter and the Union surrendered -
Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus, which let any protesters and people deemed dangerous to be arrested without a fair trial. -
First major land battle of the Civil War, the Confederates won -
Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America. He ran without opposition -
Beginning a new time in naval fights, it was the first time two ironclad warships had dueled and the Union wan -
The Confederate army was planning on holding the Union army from Mississippi and the West, but the Union broke through, ruining the south's chances -
The Confederate army was named the Army of North Virginia in a battle to keep Richmond from the Union and Robert E. Lee is named commander -
Confederate General Lee wanted to lead the fighting into the North land, which could lead to the capture of D.C. -
The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War, the Confederates hid behind walls and trenches and sent the Union back. -
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of the civil war. The proclamation declared that all current slaves shall be free and slavery was banned. -
The battle that killed Jackson and gave Robert E. Lee a major win for the confederates. -
Robert E. Lee led a confederate army into Gettysburg, PA in an attempt to invade the North -
Confederate commander John C. Pemberton surrendered to the Union after nearly running out of supplies, which caused the confederacy to split apart. -
After the Emancipation Proclamation was ratified many people suspected African Americans of trying to steal their jobs and lively hoods, so they went on a 5 day riot of lynching and attacking black businesses -
On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered a short speech at the battlefield cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania -
Union troops took Atlanta, a political monument and supply rail for the Confederates, boosting Union morale and extremely damaging Confederate abilities. -
Near the end of the American Civil War, incumbent President Abraham Lincoln of the National Union Party easily defeated McClellan with 212 of the electoral votes -
General William T. started burning down the entire city of Atlanta to cut off the supplies to the Confederacy. -
Congress finally passed the 13th amendment that completely abolished slavery in the U.S. -
Congress passed an act to help newly freed slaves from the south and misplaced southerners -
After a 9 month battle the Confederate forces at Petersburg broke and left Richmond wide open to the Union army who then captured the city. -
When Virginia seceded from the Union the Confederates took the chance to make it their new capital because it had many railroads and supplies. -
The ending of the Civil War, general Robert E. Lee surrendered after the Confederates were blocked from North Carolina and cornered -
Abe Lincoln was assassinated at a theater by John Wilkes Booth, who shot Abe in the back of the head and fled the scene while yelling. -
12 days after he killed Lincoln he was found and killed by Union soldiers. -
Whig members create a new political party to oppose the spread of slavery westward.
