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Lincoln Elected For President
Abraham Lincoln is elected president of the United States also known as the Union. He was an anti slavery so many people was mad at him because they wanted slaves and some southern states threaten him. -
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U.S.A Civil War
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Nation Divided
After they withdraw from the Union, seven Southern states form the Confederate States of America also known as the Confederacy. For president of the Confederacy, they choose Jefferson Davis, the former U.S. senator of Mississippi. Four more states join the Confederacy. -
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis was elected president in the South because the nations where divided so they said it was like a new country. -
Lincolns First Speech
Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. In his first speech to the nation, he tries to convince the Southern states that they have no reason to leave the Union. He says he does not intend to prevent slavery in states where it already exists. -
The Civil War Begins
The Civil War begins when Confederate troops attack Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. In response, Lincoln begins to call up troops in the Union and orders a blockade of all ports in the South to prevent supply ships from entering and leaving. -
The First Bull Run
Confederate forces in Virginia win the first major battle of the Civil War—the First Battle of Bull Run also known as the First Battle of Manassas. The Confederate victory convinces President Lincoln to prepare the Union for a long and war. -
Fort Henry and Fort Donelson
Union general Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in western Tennessee. These are the first major Union victories of the war. -
The battle of Shiloh
This battle was on Teneesee and the Union won. -
The Second Bull Run
Confederate forces overpower Union troops in the Second Battle of Bull Run (also known as the Second Battle of Manassas) in Virginia. Union troops are forced out of the state. Confederate general Robert E. Lee, shown here, then attempts a major invasion of the North. -
The battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam was the culmination of the Maryland Campaign of 1862, the first invasion of the North by Confederate General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia. In Kentucky and Missouri, Southern armies were also advancing as the tide of war flowed north. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation is an executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War under his war powers. It proclaimed the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's 4 million slaves, and immediately freed 50,000 of them, with the rest freed as Union armies advanced. -
The Siege of Vicksburg
The Siege of Vicksburg (May 19 – July 4, 1863) was the final major military action in the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War. In a series of maneuvers, Union Ulysses S. Grant and his army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate army of John C. Pemberton into the defensive lines surrounding the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. -
The Richmond–Petersburg Campaign
The Richmond–Petersburg Campaign was a series of battles around Petersburg, Virginia, fought from June 9, 1864, to March 25, 1865, during the American Civil War. Although it is more popularly known as the Siege of Petersburg, it was not a military siege, in which a city is usually surrounded and all supply lines are cut off, nor was it strictly limited to actions against Petersburg. -
Lincoln President Again
Lincoln was reelected as president. -
The end of the Civil War
The Civil War was ended. -
The surrender at Appomattox
With his army surrounded, his men weak and exhausted, Robert E. Lee realized there was little choice but to consider the surrender of his Army to General Grant. After a series of notes between the two leaders, they agreed to meet on April 9, 1865, at the house of Wilmer McLean in the village of Appomattox Courthouse. The meeting lasted approximately two and one-half hours and at its conclusion the bloodliest conflict in the nation's history neared its end. -
Lincolns Death
The assassination of United States President Abraham Lincoln was on Friday. The assassination was five days after the commanding general of the Army of Northern Virginia, Robert E. Lee, and his Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac. Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated,though an unsuccessful attempt had been made on Andrew Jackson thirty years before in 1835.
