History Timeline

By gracekb

  • Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Dredd Scott Decision

  • First election of Lincoln

  • Fort Sumter

    first shots fired by South, South takes fort, Lincoln calls for troops

  • 1st Bull Run/Manassas

    the first real battle that showed each side that it would not be a quick or easy war, South wins

  • New Orleans taken

    gives North control of the Mississippi

  • 2nd Bull Run/Manassas

    South wins

  • Antietam/Sharpsburg

    Union Victory, bloodiest single day of the war, cigar story

  • Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

    warns the South that he will emancipate in 90 days and this is their last chance to surrender

  • Fredricksburg

    Major Southern Victory

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    war time power, makes the war about saving the union AND ending slavery
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    Chancellorsville

    Lees greatest victory, Jackson dies from injuries
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    Vicksburg

    Miss. and everything west of it lost to the confederacy

  • Gettysburg

    bloodiest battle of the war, North wins

  • Wilderness campaign

    prisoner exchange is ended, Grant is in command
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    Siege of Petersburg

    Grant tries to capture Richmond through Petersburg

  • Battle of the Crater

    part of the Siege of Petersburg, Confederate victory

  • Sherman attacks Atlanta

    South is forced to evacuate, most of the city is burned

  • Lincoln Reelected

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    Shermans march to the sea

    no idea what happened he never recorded this class

  • Appomattox

    Practical end to the war, Lee surrenders

  • Lincoln Assassinated