Events
S Caro opens fire on
Fort Sumter (Apr 12 1861)Lincoln issues call for
75k militiamen
(Apr 15 1861)Lincoln proclaims blockade
of S seaports (Jul 19, 61)Lincoln proclaims blockade
of S seaports (Jul 27, 61)West Virginia Secedes from
Virginia (Jun '61)Trent Affair
(Nov 1861)Alabama escapes
to Azores
(Sept 1862)Alabama sunk
(June 1864)Larid Rams constructed
(Apr 1862)Arbitration for Alabama claims
come out in favor of US for $15.5 million
(Sept 1872)Dominion of Canada est (July 1867)Emperor Napoleon III of
France dispatches
French Army to Mex City
(Jun 1863)Austrian archduke
Maximilian becomes
emperor of Mexico
(Apr 1864)Confederacy passes
Conscription (Apr 1862)Union passes Conscription
(Mar 1863)NY Draft Riots
(July 1863)Morrill Tariff (Mar 1861)National Banking System Est
(Feb 1863)National Banking System
put in place (Feb 1863)Discovery of oil gushers
(Aug 1859)Homestead Act
(May 1862)1st Bull Run
(July 1861)Seven Days Battles
(July 1862)Monitor fights Merrimac
(Mar 1862)2nd Bull Run
(Aug 1862)Battle of Antietam
(Sept 1862)Preliminary Emancipation
Proclamation issued
(Sept 1862)Lincoln issues Emancipation
Proclamation (Jan 1863)13th Amendment
(Dec 1865)Blacks recognized as
prisoners of war
(Oct 1864)Fredericksburg
(Dec 1862)Chancellorsville
(May 1863)Battle of Gettysburg
(July 1863)Gettysburg Address
(Nov 1863)Grant captures Fort Henry
and Fort Donelson (Feb 1862)Battle at Shiloh
(Apr 1862)Capture of New Orleans
(Apr 1862)Vicksburg surrenders
(July 1863)Fall of Port Hudson
(July 1863)Chattanooga &
"Battle Above the Clouds"
(Nov 1863)Sherman captures Atlanta
(Sept 1864)Sherman burns Atlanta
(Nov 1864)Sherman's march
(Nov - Dec 1864)Presidential Election of 1864Congressional Committee
on the Conduct of War
Created (Dec 1861)Vallandigham convicted by
military tribunal
(May 1863)Vallandigham runs for Gov
from Michigan (June 1863)"The Man Without a Country"
published (Dec 1863)Wilderness Campaign
(May- June 1864)Assault on Cold Harbor
(June 1864)Confeds try to negotiate
for peace (Feb 1865)Union corners Lee at
Appomattox Courthouse
(Apr 1865)Lincoln has mind-blowing experience
at Ford's Theater (Apr 1865)English Reform Bill of 1867 passedRebel leaders pardoned
by Johnson (Dec 1868)150k members of
Black Baptist Church
(1850)500k members of
Black Baptist Church
(1870)Congress creates
Freedmen's Bureau
(Mar 1865)Freedmen's Bureau
expires (June 1872)Lincoln's 10% plan
issued (Dec 1863)Wade-Davis Bill passes
Congress (July 1864)Johnson issues own
Reconstruction plan
(May 1865)Mississippi passes first
Black Code (Nov 1865)Congress shuts door on newly
formed S states delegations,
Johnson allows restoration
(Dec 1865)Johnson vetoes bill
extending lifespan of
Freedmen's Bureau
(Feb 1866)Congress passes
Civil Rights Bill
(Mar 1866)14th amendment
approved by Congress
(June 1866)14th amendment ratified
(July 1868)Johnson's "swing 'round the
circle" (late summer 1866)Congressional elections
(1868)Reconstruction Act
(Mar 1867)15th amendment passes
Congress (Feb 1869)15th amendment ratified
(Mar 1870)Ex Parte Milligan
(Apr1866)KKK founded
(Dec 1865)Force Act of 1870
(May)Force Act of 1871
(Apr)Tenure of Office Act
(Mar 1867)Johnson dismisses Stanton
(Feb 1868)Johnson's impeachment:
1st voting in Senate
(May 1868)Seward acquires Alaska
from Russia (Mar 1867)Periods
Lincoln's Presidential Term~800k immigrants from Brit/Ireland/Germany come to USCotton was v productive (1857-1860)Fenian Raids (Irish invade Canada)Civil War (Apr 12 1861-Apr 9 1865)Peninsula campaign
(Mar 1862-July 1862)25k blacks from Louisiana/Texas/Miss
go in mass exodus to Kansas
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