Early Civil War engagement ending in defeat for the Union army; this battle convinced many in the North that victory over the Confederacy would not be as easy as they first thought it would be
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Emancipation Proclamation
January 1, 1863, proclamation that freed slaves in Southern territories was controlled by the Union army
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Battle of Gettysburg (1863)
Bloodiest overall battle of the Civil War; many historians claim that the Southern defeat in this battle was the beginning of the end for the Confederacy
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Appomattox
Virginia courthouse where General Robert E. Lee surrendered Confederate forces on April 9, 1865
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Lincoln elected president
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1860
South Carolina secedes from Union
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1861
Confederate States of America created
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1861
Attack on Fort Sumter
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1861
First Battle of Bull Run
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1861
Union begins blockade of Southern ports
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1862
New Orleans captured by Union navy
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1862
Battle of Shiloh Conscription begins in Confederate states
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1862
Emancipation of slaves in Southern states begins
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1862
Battle of Antietam
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1862
British announce they will not aid the Confederacy in any substantial way
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1863
Emancipation Proclamation Conscription begins in the North; draftees may hire "replacements"
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1863
Draft riots in New York City
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1863
Crucial Union victory at Vicksburg
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1863
Crucial Union victory at Gettysburg
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1863
First black soldiers enlist in Union army
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1864
Abraham Lincoln reelected
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1864
General Sherman carries out his “march to the sea”
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1864
Desertion becomes a major problem in the Confederate army
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1865
General Lee surrenders at Appomattox
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1865
Abraham Lincoln assassinated
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James Buchanan
In December 1860, he declared *secession illegal* but believed there were no constitutional grounds to compel states to stay in the Union.
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Fort Sumter
A fortress on an island in Charleston harbor, was ordered evacuated by the new South Carolina government.
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Crittenden Plan
It called for federal protection of slavery where it existed and the formal extension of the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific, with territory south of the line open to slavery and north free.
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Southern Cotton
Slavery's centrality to secession undermined Confederate cotton diplomacy with Britain and France. European powers wanted __________ and were unfriendly to the U.S.
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**On to Richmond**
Once Virginia seceded, the Confederate capital moved to Richmond. Northern newspapers editorialized "__________!" believing that taking this city near Washington D.C. would end the war.
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General Winfield Scott
He the elderly U.S. Army commander, was the only important official who thought the war would be long and hard.
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Battle of Bull Run
On July 21, 1861, this force was defeated by an equally green Confederate army at the First _____________.
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July 21, 1861
First Battle of Bull Run
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Anaconda Plan
Scott's plan, dubbed the _________ by uninformed journalists, was to blockade the southern coastline and seize the Mississippi River to economically strangle the Confederacy before well-trained federal armies finished it off.
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**national draft**
**Jefferson Davis** also realized that he faced a long and difficult war. In April 1862, he convinced the Confederate Congress to establish the first ________.
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Ulysses S. Grant
In February 1862, ___________ captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in Tennessee, taking many prisoners and driving back Confederate forces in the Mississippi Valley.
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General McClellan
In November 1861, he replaced General Scott as Union army commander.
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Merrimack
To avoid the Union blockade, the Confederates built the ironclad _______.
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**Confederate Army**
All white men 18–35 were drafted into the **__________** for three years. The ages were later extended from 17 to 50. The draft proved to be very unpopular.
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Battle of Antietam
General McClellan's army defeated Robert E. Lee's invasion of Maryland at the __________ on September 17, 1862, the bloodiest day of the Civil War.
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September 17, 1862
Battle of Antietam
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Emancipation Proclamation
It changed the nature of the war. The North now wanted to extend freedom and end a rebellion.
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January 1, 1863
Emancipation Proclamation
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Robert E. Lee
He won the Battle of Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862, and the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 1–3, 1863.
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July 4, 1863
The Battle of Vicksburg ended with the city's surrender on __________.
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Chattanooga
On November 23–25, General Grant won the Battle of __________ in southeastern Tennessee, opening an invasion route into Georgia.
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General William Tecumseh Sherman
In May 1864, _____________'s army targeted Atlanta, Georgia, while Grant accompanied Meade's army toward Richmond.
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