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The election of Lincoln was significant because it was the last straw for the Confederacy, because they knew that Lincoln would abolish slavery.
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This battle was significant because the Battle of Fort Sumpter was the first battle of the Civil War.
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The sifnificance of the blockade is that Lincoln wanted to shut off all inports into the South so they would surrender from lack of food, and supplies.
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The Significance of the First Battle of Bull Run is that it was the first major land battles of the armies in Virginia. Jackson earned his name Stonewall in this battle.
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This was significant because it was a major sea battle between the North and South. The Virginia had previously sunk two Union ships and it was heading up to Chesepake Bay. The Monitor saild out of the Bay and had a big battle there for hours.
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The Battle of Shiloh was significant because at the beginning of the battle the Confederates ambushed the Union forces. Over the time the Union held their own and defeated the weakend Confederate forces. It was the bloodiest battle at the time.
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This is significant because it was the Unions first attempt to take over the capital of the Confederate States of America.
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This shows us the general movements of the Northern Virginia army, and the Army of the Potomac. The battle took place outside of Richmon Virginia.
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This battle was significant because Stonewall Jackson destroied the Union forces. The counterattack was the largest and simultaneous attack in the war.
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The battle of Antietam was significant because this battle gave Lincoln the opertunity to adress the Emancipation Proclomation. The battle was between the Potomac Army, and the Confederate. It was the most bloodiest single day in America, but it ended in a draw.
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The Emancimation Proclamation was significant because it said that all of the slaves in the rebelious states after January 1st, 1863 would be forever free. It did not free any slaves but it turned the war into reviving the nation into a battle for human freedom.
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This was significant because Lincoln finished signing the last Emancipation Proclomation. The document stated that all of the rebelling states would be free. The document after Anteitem was a perliminary proclomation.
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This battle was significant because Lee and Stonewall Jackson had a major victory during this battle. Stonewall Jackson had taken 30,000 Confederate troops to the Union right flank and conduct an attack. The win at Chancellorsville was said to be Lee's greatest victory.
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The Battle of Gettysburg was significant because General Lee tried to invade the North territory and he failed to do so. On July 3rd, 1863 Lee attacked a Union station, but he had great losses with trying to take it over.
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This battle was significant because with the seige of Vicksburg, the Union now had a tight grip on the Mississippi. Also it divided the Confederacy in half.
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The Gettysburg Adress is significant because it was Lincoln's most famous speech.
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This battle was significant because there was a railway that had a direct rout to Savannah Georgia. The Union won these battles and the Confederate forces were forced back into Georgia. With the railway under Union command, it paved a direct rout to Savannah.
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This event was significant because one man alone was in charge of the entire Union army, and Lincoln made it so he had more seniority then the other generals. Later General Grant after the war wrote that he never chose the life of a soldier.
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This was significant because Union forcese lend by Willian Sherman took control of the Confederate city of Atlanta.
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This was significant because the city wasa a major hub for Confederate forces and now the Union occupied it. The leader of the Union forces that controlled the city was Sherman. Then later in the year Shermans march to the sea begins.
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This event was significant because Lincoln thought he would not have been able to have a second term, but there were many, many votes from the North for him to run a second term.
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This was significant because when Sherman was leaving Atlanta, he and his army burned down the industrial side of the city. He and his troops marched through Georgia, stating to Grant that the North will Prevail.
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This event was significant because when Robert E Lee surrendederd all of his troops to General Grant. The surrender officially ended the Civil War.
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This was significant because Abraham Lincoln was killed.
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This event was significant because it finally enabled the slaves to be free anywhere in the United States.
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