BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF SOME MAJOR EVENTS DURING THE CIVIL WAR

1. 8TH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES
CIVIL WAR
TIMELINE

2. LINCOLN IS ELECTED 1860

3. 1860 &1861 SOUTHERN STATES
LEAVE THE UNION

4. FORT SUMTER IS ATTACKED1861

5. THE U.S. IS DIVIDED AND THE CIVIL
WAR STARTS 1861

6. 1862 BATTLE AT ANTIETAM
(IMPORTANT UNION VICTORY THAT
ALLOWED LINCOLN TO SIGN THE
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION)

7. 1863 LINCOLN SIGNS THE
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
(P.497)

8. 1863 LINCOLN GIVES FAMOUS
GETTYSBURG SPEECH (P.605)

9. 1864 GENERAL SHERMAN USES
TOTAL WAR TO DESTROY THE
SOUTH (P.508)

10. 1865 CIVIL WAR ENDS (LEE
SURRENDERS TO GRANT AT
APPOMATTOX) P.509

11. 1865 THE SOUTH LOSES THE CIVIL
WAR

12. QUESTIONS WHO'S LISTENING????
1. WHICH SIDE LEFT THE UNION AFTER
LINCOLN WAS ELECTED?
2. WHERE DID THE CIVIL WAR START?
3. WHAT BATTLE ALLOWED LINCOLN TO
ISSUE HIS EMANICAPTION PROCLAMATION

13. QUESTIONS WHO'S LISTENING????
4. DID EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
ACTUALLY FREE ANYONE?
5. NAME THE SPEECH WHERE LINCOLN SAID
“THE CIVIL WAR IS A TEST”
6. WHAT IS TOTAL WAR?
7. WHO LOST THE CIVIL WAR?