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Before the Civil War

The Civil War

Reconstruction

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Lincoln delivered a two-minute speech at Gettysburg to honor the soldiers who have fallen during the Civil War.

From July 1 through July 2 1863, General Robert E. Lee was forced to retreat from Gettysburg after a horrific loss to the Union.

Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, on March 4, 1865, described why the war was a necessity and how slavery is unjust.

The Emancipation Proclamation freed 3.1 million slaves, but not all of them, this speech expresses Lincoln’s view on slavery.

On September 17, 1862 the first major battle of the Civil War happened near Antietam Creek. On this day 22,000 casualties were counted.

Ulysses S. Grant used the attack strategy of Total war to win the Civil War.

Robert E. Lee is the Confederate General who opposed slavery but still fought for the Confederacy.

Fort Sumter is located in one of the Southern states, the fort flew a U.S. flag until the Confederacy took over the fort.

From December 20, 1860 through June 8, 1861, eleven states seceded from the Union to form the Confederate states of America.

After seven states seceded, Fort Sumter still belonged to the Union however this fort is located in South Carolina and they decide to seize this island. P.G.T. Beauregard bombarded Fort Sumter with about 500 men on April 21, 1861. Abraham Lincoln decides to request 75,000 men to volunteer to the Union army, this causes four more states,Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee, to secede the Union and join the Confederacy. The ninth major battle of the Civil War was the Battle of Antietam. This battle took place near Antietam Creek in Maryland and took place on September 17, 1862. This battle took the lives of 3,650 soldier in just one day. This day is considered the bloodiest battle in the Civil War, many families were devastated and already wanted the war to end sooner. President Lincoln proclaimed that all Confederate slaves, excluding Tennessee because the Union mostly controlled this state so they weren't currently in rebellion, were free. This proclamation was written on January 1, 1863 and was named the Emancipation Proclamation. During this time General Robert E. Lee, the head of the army of Northern Virginia, fought in four battles previous to the Battle of Antietam he then fought two more battles until the Battle of Gettysburg. The Battle of Gettysburg happened at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on July 1, 1863. The battle was fought between Robert E. Lee and General George G. Mende. The battle when on for three days until Lee made a fatal mistake, he allowed General George Pickett to send 12,500 soldiers 1,200 meters towards the Union but out of the 12,500 soldiers, 2,655 were hurt, captured, and/or killed. The Confederacy retreated and the Union won this battle, however over seven-thousand soldiers were killed in battle and thirty-three-thousand more soldiers were wounded in total. Abraham Lincoln decides to honor the soldiers who died during this battle, in his Gettysburg Address. This Gettysburg Address includes 272 words and persuaded the Union to stay strong to end slavery and the war. This speech was read in Gettysburg on November 19, 1863, this speech was very meaningful to the Union soldiers. The Speech starts with "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” Lincoln starts by saying that the founders would have approved and expected this war. On November 8, 1864, the Union reelects Lincoln because they believe Lincoln could end the war, he had proved that by capturing Atlanta and Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. In March 1864, Lincoln appointed General Ulysses S. Grant as the general-in-chief of the U.S. Armies. Grant’s main focus was to destroy Robert E.Lee, which he does in four battles that made General Lee surrender in April 9, 1865. At this point the war was mostly over but a tragic event happens just five days later.

The assassination of President Lincoln on April 15, 1865 changed the plans of Reconstruction, if Lincoln was alive during Reconstruction maybe he would have controlled the Radical Republicans.

In March 1865, Congress provided food and medical support for the freedmen from the South via the Freedmen’s Bureau.

The 13th Amendment officially abolished slavery in the United States.

On April 14, 1865 Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth during a play at Ford’s Theater. Booth escapes while the President was fatally injured with the bullet in the back of his head. Lincoln died from the wound the next morning and everyone knew straight away that the beloved president had passed away. Booth was later caught and hung for his actions. Because the president was now gone there was little to stop the Radical Republicans from taking over the government. On May 9, 1865 the Civil War had Congress set up a way for freed slaves to earn money, own land, and have an education, this was called the Freedmen’s Bureau. The Freedmen’s Bureau lasted only for four years and some whites attacked the bureau because they disliked blacks. "[T]hey broke into our well furnished residences on each plantadon and stole or destroyed everything therein." stated by a South Carolina planter named Charles Manigault, 1865. Even though the bureau is now gone all Southerners still had free education. On December 6, 1865 the 13th Amendment was ratified and freed all slaves and banned slavery and involuntary servitude. This prevented another Civil War from happening.

Harriet Tubman is called the Moses of her people, she was a conductor for the underground Railroad.

The Underground Railroad was a series of homes that helped escaped slave to freedom.

In 1793 Congress passed a law declaring that all northerners would have to help return runaway slaves.

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote an anti-slavery novel which supposably started the Civil War.

The Dred Scott v. Sandford event made most northerners shocked and disturbed, this event separated the nation even further.

Uncle Tom's Cabin was published on June 5, 1851, the book separated the North and South further.

John Brown was a very violent abolitionist who was willing to do anything to abolish slavery.

Abraham Lincoln was the president of the Union during the Civil War, he proposed the Emancipation Proclamation.

In 1849, slavery is very common in the South, Harriet Tubman was one of these slaves. She decides to escape one day after hearing that her family would be sold away. She decides to run away and happens to discover the Underground Railroad. This “Railroad” is a collection of buildings to help an escaped slave. She does manage to escape to Philadelphia.Upon escapes she says, “I looked at my hands, to see if I was de [the] same person now I was free. Dere [There] was such a glory over everything, de [the] sun came like gold trou [through] de [the] trees, and over de [the] fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.” This just means that she couldn’t believe she escaped slavery and how amazing it felt. In 1850 the Fugitive Slave Act is passed. Any runaway slave, if caught, would be rightfully returned to their owners. Tubman hears about this act but decides to go back through the Underground Railroad to save her family anyway. She later became a conductor and assisted about 300 slaves to freedom. The Southerners were furious that this Fugitive Slave Law did very little because the northerners rarely returned fugitive slaves. Harriet Beecher Stowe had also heard about this Act and decided to start writing a story about the problem of slavery. This book got finished in 1852 and is titled Uncle Tom’s Cabin. This novel was a success and both the Union and the Confederacy read this book. The story changed the minds of many Americans. In 1854, the U.S. Supreme Court took a case on whether Dred Scott should be a slave or a free man. The Court decided that Scott was not a free man, because he wasn’t a person, he was just property and property could not be taken without due process under the Constitution. In 1855 John Brown, a violent abolitionist, decided to hire Tubman for her knowledge of the Confederate terrain. John Brown with 21 other men, raided Harpers Ferry in an attempt to arm slaves for a slave revolt. Tubman could not assist Brown because she had an illness. Brown did manage to capture the armory however 88 U.S. Marines with some local militia captured and hanged Brown for his actions. In 1860 Lincoln won the presidential election with only 40% of the votes. This enraged the South and from December 20, 1860 to February 1, 1861, the rebel states seceded starting with South Carolina, then Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, then finally Texas. These seven states came together and called themselves the Confederate States of America.

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