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TimelineShelli Smart
Period 2
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The South Secedes: 1861
• When Lincoln was elected president South Carolina decided to secede. Then Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed.
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Fort Sumter is Attacked:1861
• Started the Civil War.
• Made Fort Sumter surrender.
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The Battle of Antietam:1862
• First Battle in the American Civil War
• The single most bloody battle in American History.
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The Emancipation Proclamation:1863
• Issued by Lincoln to set slaves free in the rebel states.
• Set about Fifty-Thousand slaves free and eventually set 3.1 million out of 4 million slaves free.
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The Battle Gettysburg:1863
• Had the most casualties in the war.
• The turning point/midway of the war.
• Stopped Robert E. Lee from invading the North.
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The Gettysburg Address is Given:1863
• One of the most well know speeches in American history.
• Given by Abraham Lincoln about four moths after the the Union beat the Confederacy.
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Wade Davis Bill is Passed:1864
• Reconstruction of the South.
• Passed by both houses of congress but was vetoed by Lincoln.
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The 13th Amendment is Passed:1865
• Outlawed Slavery.
• The first reconstruction policy set into action after the war.
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Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse:1865
• The last battle before the Confederate surrendered to the Union.
• It was one of the last battles of the revolution.
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Abraham Lincoln is Assassinated April 14, 1865
• The first president to be assassinated
• Assassinated by John Wilks Booth
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Freedman's Bureau is Created:1865
• A U.S federal government agency that aided Freedmen in 1865–1869, during the Reconstruction era of the United States after the war.
• It was supposed to last one year after Civil War.
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Ku Klux Klan is Created:1865
• Started by six veterans of the Confederate Army.
• No organizational structure.
• Many groups like this formed mostly in the south.
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The 14th Amendment is Passed:1865
• It was illegal to deprive any person of John Locke’s Natural Rights: Life, Liberty, and Property.
• In other words, no discrimination.
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First Reconstruction Act is Passed:1867
• No protection for life or property in the rebel states and no legal state government.
• It is necessary that peace and good order should be enforced in said States until loyal and republican State governments can be legally established.
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Second Reconstruction Act is Passed:1867
• African-Americans participated in regaining their rights that they had lost from the Jim Crow laws.
• African-Americans began holding various political offices.
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Andrew Johnson is Impeached:1868• First President to get
impeached in U.S. History.
• Impeached because he didn’t go through congress like he was supposed to
• He was acquitted by one vote.
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Ulysses S Grant becomes president:1869
• Grant's relationship with Johnson had progressively gotten worse.
• Breaking the tradition, Johnson did not ride with or attend Grant's Inauguration at the Capitol.
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The Compromise of 1877 is Passed:1877
• The unwritten “compromise” settled the 1876 U.S. presidential election.
• Stopped Reconstruction in the South.
• Involved Democrats that controlled the House of Representatives allowing Electoral Vote to take action.
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