| 1. Lincoln elected - 1860 (Nov.)
...Southern states to secede. |
| 2. South Carolina secedes - 1860
(Dec.) ...the Confederacy
was born. |
| 3. C.S.A. formed - 1861 (Feb.)
Jefferson Davis was president... |
| 4. Fort Sumter shelled - 1861
(April) This event started
the fighting... |
| 5. Bull Run - 1861 (July)
...near Manassas, Virginia. |
| 6. Monitor fights Virginia -
1862 (March) ...of these iron
-covered ships... |
| 7. Antietam - 1862 (Sept.)
...victory for the North. |
| 8. Emancipation Proclamation - effective
Jan. 1863 ...of the end of slavery. |
| 9. Gettysburg - 1863 (July)
...was the turning point of... |
| 10. Sherman's March - 1864-65
It destroyed large areas of... |
| 11. Lee surrenders - 1865 (April)
...from the city of Richmond. |
| 12. Lincoln assassinated - 1865
(April) ...at Ford's Theater,
in... |
| 13. 13th Amendment ratified - 1865
(Dec.) This amendment
ended all... |
| 14. Reconstruction Acts - 1867
(March) ...a system of military
occupation... |
| 15. Pres. Johnson impeached - 1868
(cleared in May) ...conviction by one
vote... |
| 16. 14th Amendment ratified - 1868
(July) ...made blacks citizens
of... |
| 17. 15th Amendment ratified - 1870
(March) ...gave black
men the... |
| 18. Amnesty Act passed - 1872
...right to vote to most... |
| 19. Last federal troops withdrawn -
1877 ...the end of Reconstruction. |
