1. Civil War Time Line
By: Kyle Middleton

2. The South Seceded from the
Union: January 1861
The slave holding states leave the north and become
there owen country, starting the civil war.

3. Fort Sumter is attacked: April
10, 1861
This is the first conflict between the north and the south

4. The Battle of Antietam:
September 16 - 18, 1862
It was a battle that stopped the advance of
robert e. lee from interring the northern states
and it was a moral boost for the union.

5. The Emancipation
Proclamation: January 1, 1863
It freed all slaves in the southern states

6. Gettysburg: July 1 - 3, 1863
It was one of the largest battles of the
war and the turning point due to the fact
that lee lost more then a third of his men

7. The Gettysburg Address is
given: November 19, 1863
It was a moral booster and it was known as one of the
greatest speeches in the world.

8. Wade Davis Bill is passed: It was pocket
voted by Abraham Lincoln in 1863
Made it were the south had to have governor appointed
by the president and made them say the “Iron Clad
Oath” and abolish slavery, the generals had to pay debt
from the war and they were striped of there land

9. The 13th Amendment is
passed: January 31, 1865
It abolished slavery as a legal institution

10. Freedman's Bureau is created:
March 3, 1865
It was an act passed were the government would provide
aid for blacks that were freed and plantation owners that
had lost the crops

11. Abraham Lincoln is
Assassinated: April 14, 1865
John Wilkes Booth killed Abraham lincoln then he was
hanged the next day.

12. Ku Klux Klan is created:
December 24, 1865
Created to maintain whit supremacy

13. -First Reconstruction Act is
Passed: March 2, 1867
It split southern states up in too five military districts

14. Second Reconstruction Act:
March 23, 1867
A more efficient government for the rebel states.

15. Surrender at Appomattox
Courthouse: April 26, 1877
It is were Lee surrendered his men.

16. Andrew Johnson is Impeached:
February 24, 1868
He was impeached because he had political troubles and
an ideology of certain thing after the war

17. The 14th Amendment is
passed: July 1868
People born in the United States and you were not white
you become a citizen

18. Ulysses S Grant becomes
president: March 4,1869
first president after the civil war

19. The Compromise of 1877 is
passed: February 26, 1877
Removal of all federal troops from the southern states.
Appointment of at least one southern Democrat into Hayes's
Administration.
Construction of a second transcontinental railroad in the South called the
Texas and Pacific.
Legislation enacted to help industrialize the South.