Civil War (1860-1865)

	Civil War (1860-1865)

Color image of Abe Lincoln with Emancipation Proclamation text

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was issued on January 1, 1863

Conflict over issues of how much control the federal government should have over the states, industrialization, trade, and especially slavery had increased tension between Northern and Southern states. After Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, 11 Southern states seceded (or withdrew) from the Union and set up an independent government--the Confederate States of America. These events led to the outbreak of the Civil War--a brutal, bloody, four-year conflict that left the South defeated and ended slavery at the cost of more than half a million lives.

The assassination of President Lincoln: at Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C., April 14th, 1865.

The Tragedy at Ford's Theater

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The Civil War

	A Different Kind of Horsepower "Automobile Manufacturer Henry Ford Was Born"

	A Final Resting Place "National Cemeteries Were Authorized by the U.S. Government"

	A President Is Captured! "Jefferson Davis Was Captured"

	A Race for Time at Manassas "The Second Battle of Manassas"

	A Turn-of-the-Century Woman! "Activist Mary Church Terrell Was Born"

	America's Most Tragic Battle "The Battle of Antietam"

	Confederate President "Jefferson Davis Elected President of the Confederate States of America"

	Damn the Torpedoes! "The Union Navy Captured Fort Morgan, Alabama"

	Dying For Silver and Gold "Arizona Became a New Territory"

	Fayetteville Captured! "Sherman Captured Fayetteville"

	Florida Secedes! "Florida Seceded!"

	Go West, Young Farmer! "The Homestead Act Went Into Effect"

	Grant Against the Prairie Dogs "General Ulysses S. Grant Attempted to Take Vicksburg, Mississippi"

	Honoring America's Soldiers "Arlington National Cemetery"

	Horses Are Out of Work! "The First Transcontinental Telegraph System Was Completed"

	Lincoln Fights Slavery in the Capital "Abolition in the District of Columbia"

	Lincoln's Big Day "Abraham Lincoln's Inauguration"

	Mack Attack "Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy Was Born"

	Mountaineers Are Always Freemen "West Virginia Admitted as the 35th State in the Union"

	No More Bloodshed! "Lee Surrendered"

	Parading Down Penn Avenue "The Army of the Potomac Paraded Down Pennsylvania Avenue"

	Petersburg Under Attack "Grant Attacked Petersburg, Virginia"

	Rich in Copper and Cattle "Lincoln Created the Montana Territory"

	Saddle Up Partner! "Novelist Owen Wister Was Born"

	Saving the Big Trees "Yosemite Land Grant Signed"

	The Battle Above the Clouds "Fighting Commenced in the Battle of Chattanooga"

	The Duchess's Hobby "Florence Kling Harding Was Born"

	The Gettysburg Address, Timeless Words "President Lincoln Delivered the Gettysburg Address"

	The Great Commoner "William Jennings Bryan Was Born"

	The Hanging of Henry Wirz "Henry Wirz, Former Commander of Confederate Prison Was Hanged"

	The Icy Battle of Nashville "Battle of Nashville: Union Troops Broke Through the Confederate Line"

	The Tragedy at Ford's Theater "The Assassination of President Lincoln"

	The Yankees Are Coming! "Charleston Surrendered"

	There's No Place Like Home! "Kansas Entered the Union as a Free State"

	Want to Trade? "New York Stock Market Opened on Wall Street"

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