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There were 31,443,321 people in the beginning of 1860. -
Lincoln: WINNER! 180 electoral votes & 1,865,593 popular votes
Breckenridge: 72 electoral votes & 848,356 popular votes
Douglass: 12 electoral votes & 1,382,713 popular votes
Bell: 39 electoral votes & 1,592,906 popular votes -
Timespan covering United States Civil War
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The Pony Express was the an American express mail system that used horse-mounted relays. -
Benjamin Henry perfects the Henry rifle which was a huge weapon in the Union army during the war. -
Abraham Lincoln, member of the antislavery republican party, is elected president of the United States of America. -
The First Flag of Independence was raised in the South by citizens of Savannah, Georgia -
The Crittenden Compromise was an unsuccessful compromise to try to permanently preserve slavery in the US and make it unconstitutional for future congress to abolish slavery. -
In 1860, the state of South Carolina officially withdraws from the United States of America. -
The first Secession Convention meets in Columbia, South Carolina. -
President James Buchanan fires the members of his cabinet before Lincoln gets into office. -
Mississippi (January 9, 1861), Florida (January 10, 1861), Alabama (January 11, 1861), Georgia (January 19, 1861), Louisiana (January 26, 1861), secede from the United states. -
Representatives of the seceded states met and formed the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis is elected as president of the CSA. -
The Confederacy is formed by the seven seceded states: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. -
Texas secedes from the United States and the Union as a slave state. -
Confederates attack union Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, marks first military encounter of the civil war. -
Virginia seceded from the USA and joins the Confederate states. -
The Union puts their Anaconda Plan into place: 1) Blockade Southern ports 2)Take control of the Mississippi river to make their way into the South 3)Invade/control the capitol of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia. -
Arkansas, Tennessee and North Carolina secede from the Union and join the Confederate states. -
The first battle of Bull Run was the first battle of the Civil War, confederate victory. -
George McClellan is appointed as the head of the Union Army, but will later be fired for having 'the slows'. -
The first battle of the ironclad warships, the Confederates ship the Merrimack and the Union ship the Monitor clashed. -
Battle of Shiloh fought in Tennessee, was an early battle in the War and was a Union Victory, -
This Capture of New Orleans was critical for the Union during the war, Union win. -
June 25–July 1, 1862, was a series of battles where Confederates drove back Union army as they tried to capture the capitol. -
The second Battle of Bull Run was fought in Virginia and was a Confederate win. -
Fought in Kentucky was a huge Confederate victory over a small inexperienced Union army. -
Confederate General Lee invades the north with 50,000 men and heads towards Harpers Ferry, later leading to the Battle of Harpers Ferry which was a Confederate win. -
The Battle of Antietam fought in Maryland was one of the bloodiest battles of the war and was a Union victory. -
Lincoln fires McClellan for having the 'slows' as a leader and not acting fast, and hires General Ambrose E. Burnside. -
This 5 day battle in Virginia was one of the largest and deadliest battles of the war and was a Confederate win. -
Lincoln issues the Emancipation proclamation freeing all slaves in the South and allowing black men to serve in the Union army -
Conscription, or the drafting of soldiers into military service, begins in the North. It had begun in the South the year before -
Fought in Virginia, was a major battle in the war between Lee's and Jackson's armies, was a Confederate win. -
General "Stonewall" Jackson dies after the battle of Chancellorsville when one of his own men fires on him. -
In Mississippi, Union gained control of the Mississippi river, and was the end of the Vicksburg campaign. -
Fought from July 1-3 in Pennsylvania, and was a Union victory that gave the North a huge boost in the war and ended Lee's plan to invade the North. -
President Lincoln and Frederick Douglass meet, an abolitionist who pushes for full equality for black soldiers of the Union. -
Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address, dedicating the Battlefield as a National Cemetery. -
The Battle of Chattanooga was a Union victory on the Tennessee river. -
Lincoln Issues his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, which would pardon those who participated in the "existing rebellion" if they take an oath to the Union. -
The Andersonville prison camp is opened in Georgia, treats its inmates extremely harshly. -
General Ulysses S. Grant is appointed commander of the Union forces. -
Fought in Virginia, from May 31 to June 12, June 3rd was the most important battle. Lee prevented Grant from capturing Richmond, it was a Confederate win. -
The democrats nominate George B. McClellan as president to run against Lincoln in the 1864 election. -
Sherman's Army captures Atlanta. "Atlanta is ours, and fairly won," he telegraphs Lincoln. -
Union victory by Sheridan in the Shenandoah valley over Jubal Early's troops. -
Lincoln is reelected as president of the United States in the 1864 election, defeating McClellan. -
General Sherman begins his Union armies path of destruction and death from Atlanta to Savannah. -
Fought in Tennessee, Hood's Confederate army is defeated and the threat to Tennessee ends. Represented the end of large scale fighting in the west of the coastal states. -
Lincoln promoted David G. Farragut to vice admiral of the Union army. -
Congress passes the 13th amendment, which was to abolish slavery in the United States. -
Last offensive for Lee's army who attacked Grant's army at Petersburg, Virginia. -
President Davis, his Cabinet and the Confederate defenders leave Richmond and leave on a railroad line. -
General Lee surrenders to Union at Appomattox Court House in Virginia, marks end of the Confederacy. -
President Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, he dies on 04/15. -
Vice President Andrew Johnson takes office, since Lincoln had died. -
Union Major General Granger lands in Texas and tells the people of the Emancipation Proclamation, granting their freedom. -
General Watie surrenders his army being the last Confederate General to surrender, ending the war. -
Major Henry Wirz is hung, who was the leader of Andersonville. -
The 13th amendment is ratified abolishing slavery in the United States of America. -
The last issue of the abolitionist paper, The Liberator, is published. -
Fish University, one of the first historically black colleges, is established in Tennessee. -
The first federal rights act to protect African Americans, declared all people born in the United States to be citizens, "without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude." -
The US declares that a state of peace exists with Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. -
US Congress buys Ford's Theater which will soon be the Army Medical Museum, Office of the Surgeon General and War Department records. -
Tennessee is the first state to be readmitted to the Union. -
US Congress passes legislation making the rank of General of the army(second highest rank); Lieutenant General Grant is first to have this rank. -
The National Union convention is held in Philadelphia. -
US president Johnson issues a proclamation of peace with Texas. -
President Johnson officially declares the Civil War over. -
After the war ends, the North continues construction the Covington-Cincinnati Suspension Bride, which will be the longest single-span bridge in the world. -
Around 38,558,371 people, about 27 million white people, and 4.5 million black people -
African- American men are given the right to vote in the District of Columbia. -
Congress passes the Tenure of Office Act, which denies the right for the President to remove officials who were appointed with Congress's consent. -
The United States purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire by a treaty ratified by the Senate. -
Jefferson Davis is released from jail om bail, he moves to Canada. -
Congress passes a bill readmitting Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina into the Union. Mississippi, Texas and Virginia refused to ratify the 14th amendment so they were not allowed to readmit. -
President Johnson demands Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War, resigns. -
The US takes control of Midway Island. -
Congress looks into impeaching President Johnson due to his lack of effectiveness with reconstruction.