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Abraham Lincoln elected as the President
Abraham Licoln is elected as president representing the republican party. -
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The Civil War
The events happenning in and before he war. -
The Confederacy is founded by the seceding states
The Confederacy is founded by seven of the seceding states; South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
The Confederacy attack the American Unions Ford Sumter. This was the first battle of the war. The Fort surrendered to The Confederacy. -
The Battle of bull run
The Confederate army won the battle over the American Union's army. -
The Battle of Antietam
On September 17, Confederate forces were caught by General McClellan. This battle proved to be the bloodiest day of the war; 2,108 Union soldiers were killed and 2,700 Confederates were killed. The battle had no clear winner, -
The Emancipation proclamation
Abraham Lincoln and the american union declared that all slaves in the confederacys areas were free, in the goverments eyes. -
The Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address is a speach given by Abraham Lincoln after the Battle of Gettysburg. In the speach Abraham stressed the human rights and called the civil war a war for a union. -
The fall of the Confederacy
Transportation problems and successful blockades caused severe shortages of food and supplies in the South. Starving soldiers began to dthe comfedrate forces. -
The Final Battle
After the battle where The conferderate army had to surrender to the unions army. -
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
President Lincoln was watching a performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., he was shot by John Wilkes Booth, an actor from Maryland obsessed with avenging the Confederate defeat. Lincoln died the next morning. Booth escaped to Virginia. Eleven days later, Booth was killed by a union soldier
