CIVIL WAR 1861-1865

CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR

• Mainly Slavery
• Differences about abolition between North and South
• Kansas Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Decision

BATTLE OF FORT SUMTER

• Beginning of civil war
• Confederate Victory
• "Everyone knew the war was about slavery." (North)
• "We know the land, the northerns have no chance."(South)

BATTLE OF ANITETAM

• First major battle of the American Civil War
• Union victory
• "They didn't know what was coming"(the union)

Battle at Gettysberg

• Major turning point for the war
• Union victory
• "A chicken could not live on that field when we open on it."
• “Let us go home and cultivate our virtues.”

Battle of Vicksburg

•  the turning point in the American Civil War
•  first major loss of the Confederate armies
• Union Victory
• "Any victory would be dear at such a price." 
• "There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited."

Emincipation Proclamation

• for the slaves to get freed into the society
• the first and most important step in providing the legal rights to the slaves 
• "At least its a place to start."

Surrender at appomattox Courthouse

• Final battle of the civil war
• "I have never advocated war except as a means of peace."
• "It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it."

Presidents of the Civil WAr

• Abraham Lincoln (Union)
• Jefferson Davis (Confederacy)
• " A house divided against itself cannot stand. "  

Generals of the civil war

• General U.S. Grant
• General Robert E. Lee
• "Wherever the enemy goes, let our troops go also"
• "Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one."

Other men in the Civil war

• "You may be whatever you resolve to be." (Jackson)
• "My hard work has paid off." (Bazaar)
• "The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned."(Carne

Assassination of ABraham Lincoln

• "Assassination has never changed the history of the world."