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The Election of 1860
It was the time of the election of 1860 when President Lincoln Was elected. The south was unhappy with this election beacause they would not make enough money. They were so fed up with this that they seceded from the US. -
Forming of the Confederate States
The reason why the Southern states seceded from the Union was beacause they were mad and angry that the Union did not support slavery. If the Southerns states slavery dissapear they would lose money, crops, and slaves. -
Firing on Fort Sumter
It was the first spark of the Civil war. It happened when rebel groups started to fire on the fort the U.S fired back. -
Battle of Sewells Point
The Battle of Sewell's Point was an inconclusive switching of cannon fire both the Union gunboat USS Monticello, helped by the USS Thomas Freeborn, and Confederate batteries on Sewell's Point that happened on May 18, 19 and 21, 1861, in Norfolk County, Virginia in the early days of the American Civil War. -
Emancipation Proclomation
The Emacipation proclomation was made up by President Lincoln. It was put in place to end slavery. -
Battle of Vicksburg
The Anaconda Plan was used again against the South. It killed many southerners. The south used the same plan to defend there territory. With the death of Pemberton’s military and this important fort on the Mississippi, the Confederacy was effectively broken up in half. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The Norths stradgey was briiliant wich was called The Anaconda Plan. It was to "squeeze" or push out the oppenents out of cover. The South was just to defend the land. The South were good at marksmanship, knowing of the land, and working together. The North were had many factories, the population was higher that meat more troops, the North also had transportation such as carts and trains. -
Shermans March
When the union marched to the sea.Sherman's March to the Sea followed his extrodinary Atlanta Campaign of May to September 1864. He and the Union Army's commander, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, had that the Civil War would come to an end only if the Confederacy's planning, economic, and psychological capacity for war were decisively break up Shermans march and planet warfare, or total war. -
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
United States President Abraham Lincoln was shot on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre as the American Civil War was coming to a close. The assassination happened five days after the commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, General Robert E. Lee, gave up to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and the Union Army of the Potomac. -
Surrender at Appomattix
With his army surrounded, his men ill and tired, Robert E. Lee realized there was small choice but to reflect on the surrender of his Army to General Grant. Many words both the two heads, they said yes to meet on April 9, 1865, at the house of Wilmer McLean in the village of Appomattox Courthouse. The meeting lasted correctly two and one-half hours and at its conclusion the goriest conflict in the nation's history neared its end. Prelude to Surrender -
The Thirteenth Admendment
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and unspoild slavery, except as a consequence for a crime. In Congress, it was accepted by the Senate on April 8, 1864, and by the House on January 31, 1865. The amendment was ratified by the demanded number of states on December 6, 1865. On December 18, 1865, Secretary of State William H. Seward explained its announcing. It was the first of the three Reconstruction Amendments adopted following the American Civil War.
