1. Timeline
Shelli Smart
Period 2
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2. 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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3. Fort Sumter is Attacked:1861
• Started the Civil War.
• Made Fort Sumter surrender.
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4. The Battle of Antietam:1862
• First Battle in the
American Civil War
• The single most
bloody battle in
American History.
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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. The 13th Amendment is Passed:
1865
• Outlawed
Slavery.
• The first
reconstruction
policy set into
action after the
war.
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10. 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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11. Abraham Lincoln is
Assassinated April 14, 1865
• The first president to be
assassinated
• Assassinated by John Wilks
Booth
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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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16. 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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17. 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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18. 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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19. 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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