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SC Secession & the Domino Effect
Secession Dates -- Table & Info.
After Lincoln was declared President, SC voted unanimously to secede from the Union, afraid that their slaves would be set free. Altogether, 7 states had seceded prior to the Attack on Fort Sumter - Lincoln called for volunteers to supress the rebellion; 4 of the remaining slaves states refused and seceded instead, thus forming the Confederacy.
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Attack on Fort Sumter
On Apr. 12, 1861, the Attack on Fort Sumter was initiated by the Confederate forces and was the commencing launch of the Civil War; just how Lincoln anticipated. The Confederate army barricaded the Fort which disabled the Union garrison to play the defensive or offensive, due to the lack of resources. Major Anderson finally surrendered Fort Sumter on April 13 and there were no casualties from gunfire. CWSAC Battle Summaries, "Fort Sumter"; http://www.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/sc001.html
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Battle Of Bull Run
The Battle of Bull Run was an attack on a smaller Confederate fort initiated by the North. The South won.
Significance; It inflated the Southern ego to the point that many soldiers deserted because they believed the war was over. The North, however, buckled down harder to take on the task at hand. David Kennedy, Lizabeth Cohen, and Thomas Bailey, The American Pageant (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006), 453-454 Cam. -
Monitor vs. Merrimack
Monitor vs. Merrimack was a war at sea. It all started when the Confederates found out that the Union was trying to blockade them. The war started when the Union tried to use a blockade-running method to smuggle materials, but the Union also seized British freighters which meant "ultimate destination". The Merrimack was an old Virgina ship that was reconditioned to fight, but when the Monitor came into the war it stopped the Merrimack to a standstill. -
Peninsula Campaign
General McClellan was given charge of the Army of the Potomac. He decided to approach Richmond, which is a peninsula between the James and York Rivers, hence the name.
Significance; It finalized a plan for the Union as to how they were going to proceed and win the war. David Kennedy, Lizabeth Cohen, and Thomas Bailey, The American Pageant (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006), 454-457 Cam. -
Antietam
McCllean's men found a copy of Robert E, Lee's war plans and stopped the southerners at Antietam Creek on September 17, 1862. Antietam was the Union's display of power that Lincoln needed to announce his Emancipation Proclamation. The battle changed the meaning of the Civil War from saving the Union to doing all that and freeing all the slaves. -David M. Kennedy , Lizabeth Cohen, and Thomas A. Bailey, The American Pageant, 13th Edition By: Ariana Delgado -
Gettysburg
Lee now prepared to invade the North for the second and final time at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.In the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863), General George Pickett led a hopeless, bloody, and pitiful charge across a field that ended in the pig-slaughter of Confederates. A few months later, Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address, whichadded moral purpose to the war saying a new goal was to make sure those
who’d been killed had not died in vain.
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Vicksburg
In the spring of 1862, a flotilla commanded by David G. Farragut joined with a Northern army to seize New Orleans.
At Vicksburg, Mississippi, U.S. Grant besieged the city and
captured it on July 4, 1863, thus securing the important Mississippi River. Grant redeemed himself here after blundering at Shiloh.The Union victory at the Battle of Vicksburg came the day after the Union victory at Gettysburg, and afterwards, the Confederate hope for foreign intervention was lost.
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Emancipation Proclamation
Declared "forever Free" the slaves in the Confederate states still in rebellion but not would not free the slaves in the Union states in fear of loosing their support. The importance of the Proclamation was to show the Confederates that either way the slaves will soon be free.
-David M. Kennedy , Lizabeth Cohen, and Thomas A. Bailey, The American Pageant, 13th Edition
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Election of 1864
The Election was between the Northern Democrat party, made up of copperheads, peace democrats, and war democrats, and the Republicans. The candidates were Lincoln and McClellan. Lincoln won 212 to 21.
Significance; Lincoln's winning was a huge blow to the South. After, men began deserting the Conferderate army by the boatloads. David Kennedy, Lizabeth Cohen, and Thomas Bailey, The American Pageant (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006), 470-473 Cam. -
Sherman's March to the Sea
Union Gen. Sherman captured Atlanta, GA in September 1864 and proceeded to burn it down in November. He and his troops cut a 60-mile path of destruction through GA. His main ambition was to obliterate Confederate supplies and diminish the morale of the Southern soldiers. Click Here & Scroll Down for Timeline of the March Kristina
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Surrender at the Appomatox
Northern troops cornerd Lee at the Appomatox Courthouse. Grant and Lee met and generous terms for surrender were granted.
Significance; The Civil War was finally over. Yay! Finally! David Kennedy, Lizabeth Cohen, and Thomas Bailey, The American Pageant (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006), 473-474 Cam. -
Lincoln's Assassination
5 days after the surrender, John Wilkes Booth shoot Lincoln in the head in Ford's Theater. Lincoln died the next day,
Significance; Southerns cheered at first but then realized the kind mercies and kindnesses shown by Lincoln. It was very apparent that the new president, Andrew Jackson, had big shoes to fill. David Kennedy, Lizabeth Cohen, and Thomas Bailey, The American Pageant (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006), 474-475 Cam. -
13th Amendment is Ratified
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." The 13th Amendment was passed by Congress in January of 1865 and ratified on December 6. This amendment formally abolished slavery. Kristina- Library of Congress, "!3th Amendment to the US Constitution"; available from http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.html
