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Election of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln won 180/183 electoral votes in free states. Douglas had the second-highest number of popular votes, but he won in one state. He earned 12 electoral votes. Breackinridge and Bell split electoral votes in other states. The election results angered Southerners.Lincoln didn't campaign in their region and didn't carry any Southern states, but he became the next president. The election signaled that the south was losing its national political power. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
a federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina, that was attacked by confederate troops, beginning in the Civil War. -
First Battle of Bull Run
This was the first major land battle of the armies in Virginia. The untried Union army under Brig. Gen Irvin McDowell marched from Washington against the Confederate army, which was drawn up behind Bull Run beyond Centreville. -
Second Battle of Bull Run
It was the second battle fought there, although it was a much larger battle than the first one. The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, led by General Robert E. Lee, defeated the Union's Major General John Pope and his Army of Virginia. -
Battle of Antietam
The battle of Antietam, also known as the battle of Sharpsburg, was the bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War- and of U.S history . -
Emancipation Proclamation
For several weeks in 1862 Lincoln worked intensely, thinking, writing and rewriting. He finally wrote the Emancipation Proclamation, the order to free the confederate slaves. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Gettysburg, a key battle that finally turned the tide against the confederates. -
Gettysburg Address
President Lincoln gave a speech called The Gettysburg Address, in which he praised the bravery of union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the civil war. -
Surrender of Confederate Forces
Robert E. Lee, commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, surrendered his beleaguered Confederate forces to Ulysses S. Grant and the Union Army. Lee's army, after the fall of Richmond and Petersburg, had been attempting to escape to the west so that he could link up with another Confederate army under Joseph E. Johnston. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
United States President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on Good Friday, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre as the American Civil War was drawing to a close. The assassination occurred five days after the commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, General Robert E. Lee, surrendered to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and the Union Army of the Potomac.
