United States Civil War

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    Civil War

  • Lincoln Selected as Republican Candidate

    Lincoln Selected as Republican Candidate

  • Lincoln Elected as 16th President

    Lincoln Elected as 16th President
    Lincoln receives 180 of 303 possible electoral votes and not one electoral vote from the south. He declares slavery a "vast moral evil". He is the first Republican elected as president.

  • South Carolina Secedes

    South Carolina Secedes

  • Mississippi Secedes from the Union

    Mississippi Secedes from the Union

  • Florida Secedes from the Union

    Florida Secedes from the Union

  • Alabama Secedes from the Union

    Alabama Secedes from the Union

  • Georgia Secedes from the Union

    Georgia Secedes from the Union

  • Louisana Secedes From the Union

    Louisana Secedes From the Union

  • Texas seceds From the Union

    Texas seceds From the Union

  • Confederate States of America Formed

    Confederate States of America Formed
    These seven states formed a new union called the Confederate States of America. The South gave three reasons for leaving the Union: The Confederate States felt the United States thought they had broken the Constitution.
    The Confederacy argued that the United States had failed to enforce the Fugitive Slave Laws.
    The government would not allow slavery in the new territories.

  • Confederates Attack Fort Sumter

    Confederates Attack Fort Sumter

  • Virginia Secedes From the Union

    Virginia Secedes From the Union

  • Arkansas Secedes From the Union

    Arkansas Secedes From the Union

  • North Carolina Secedes From the Union

    North Carolina Secedes From the Union

  • Tennessee Sucedes From the Union

    Tennessee Sucedes From the Union

  • Bull Run

    Bull Run

  • General Grant Captures Fort Henry

    General Grant Captures Fort Henry

  • Willie Lincoln Dies from Fever

    Willie Lincoln Dies from Fever

  • Merrimac vs Monitor

    Merrimac vs Monitor
    The Confederate Ironclad Merrimac sinks two wooden Union ships .Wooden ships are no longer useful in naval warefare, they have become obsolete to the new ships called "ironclads". They were steam powered and had iron or steel plating to protect them. March 8/9 the Merrimac battles the Union Ironclad 'Monitor' to a draw.

  • Battle at Shiloh

    Battle at Shiloh

  • Farragut Takes New Orleans

    Farragut Takes New Orleans

  • Robert E. Lee assumes Command of Confederate Army

    Robert E. Lee assumes Command of Confederate Army

  • Second Battle of Bull Run

    Second Battle of Bull Run

  • Battle of Antietam

    Battle of Antietam

  • General Burnside replaces McClellan as Commander of Union Army

    General Burnside replaces McClellan as Commander of Union Army

  • Battle of Fredericksburg

    Battle of Fredericksburg

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation

  • Grant Placed in Command of the Army of the West

    Grant Placed in Command of the Army of the West

  • Union Enacts the Draft

    Union Enacts the Draft

  • Chancellorville

    Chancellorville

  • Stonewall Dies from Battle Wounds

    Stonewall Dies from Battle Wounds

  • Gettysburg

    Gettysburg

  • Three Day Anti-Draft Riots in New York City

    Three Day Anti-Draft Riots in New York City

  • Confederate Victory at Chickamauga

    Confederate Victory at Chickamauga

  • Lincoln Gives the Gettysburg Address

    Lincoln Gives the Gettysburg Address

  • Battle At Chattanooga

    Battle At Chattanooga

  • Battle of Wilderness

    Battle of Wilderness

  • Battle of Spotsylvania

    Battle of Spotsylvania

  • Alanta Captured By Gen. Sherman

    Alanta Captured By Gen. Sherman

  • Siege of Petersburg

    Siege of Petersburg

  • Democrats nominate George B. McClellan for president

    Democrats nominate George B. McClellan for president

  • Lincoln is REelected

    Lincoln is REelected

  • Sherman Begins his March to the Sea

    Sherman Begins his March to the Sea

  • Battle of Franklin

    Battle of Franklin

  • Hood's Rebel Army of 23,000 is crushed at Nashville

    Hood's Rebel Army of 23,000 is crushed at Nashville

  • Sherman Reaches Savannah in Georgia

    Sherman Reaches Savannah in Georgia

  • African American Earn Right to Vote in District of Columbia

    African American Earn Right to Vote in District of Columbia

  • Confederacy Agrees to use Black Troops

    Confederacy Agrees to use Black Troops

  • Battle of Fort Stedman

    Battle of Fort Stedman

  • Lee Surrenders at Appomattax

    Lee Surrenders at Appomattax

  • Lincoln Assassinated

    Lincoln Assassinated

  • Johnston surrenders to Sherman

    Johnston surrenders to Sherman

  • Dissolution of the Confederacy

    Dissolution of the Confederacy

  • Jefferson Davis Captured

    Jefferson Davis Captured

  • Battle of Palmito Ranch

    Battle of Palmito Ranch

  • Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith surrender at Galveston, Texas

    Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith surrender at Galveston, Texas

  • Confederate General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant Rebel army.

    Confederate General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant Rebel army.

  • The United States declares that a state of peace exists with Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia

    The United States declares that a state of peace exists with Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia

  • Civil Rights Act of 1866

  • Memphis Race Riots

    Memphis Race Riots

  • Klu Klux Klan Founded

    Klu Klux Klan Founded

  • Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to the Union

    Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to the Union

  • New Orleans Race Riots

    New Orleans Race Riots

  • National Union Convention Begins

    National Union Convention Begins
    The National Union Convention is held in Philadelphia with hopes to reconcile the Radical Republicans in Congress with the Reconstructionist policies of President Andrew Johnson.

  • Andrew Johnson Begins His Swing Around The Circle Tour

    Andrew Johnson Begins His Swing Around The Circle Tour
    President Andrew Johnson goes on his Swing Around the Circle speaking tour to gain support for his Reconstructionist policies and Democratic Party candidates in the upcoming elections.

  • House of Representatives elections-Repiblicans Win Most Seats!

    House of Representatives elections-Repiblicans Win Most Seats!

  • Ohio Ratifies the 14 Amendment

    Ohio Ratifies the 14 Amendment

  • Pennsylvania ratifies the 14th Amendment

    Pennsylvania ratifies the 14th Amendment

  • Minnesota ratifies the 14th Amendment

    Minnesota ratifies the 14th Amendment

  • Delaware Rejects 14 Amendment

    Delaware Rejects 14 Amendment

  • First Reconstruction Act Passed Over Johnsons Veto

    First Reconstruction Act Passed Over Johnsons Veto

  • Alexandria, Virginia rejects thousand of votes cast by Negroes

    Alexandria, Virginia rejects thousand of votes cast by Negroes

  • Second Reconstruction Act passed over Johnson's veto.

    Second Reconstruction Act passed over Johnson's veto.

  • Congress passes a bill admitting Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina into the Union. Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas, having refused to ratify the fourteenth amendment, were refused admission into the Union

    Congress passes a bill admitting Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina into the Union. Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas, having refused to ratify the fourteenth amendment, were refused admission into the Union

  • Third Reconstruction Act passed over Johnson's veto.

    Third Reconstruction Act passed over Johnson's veto.