Civil War

November 6, 1860-

• Abraham Lincoln is elected sixteenth president

• The first Secession Convention meets in Columbia, South Carolina.

• South Carolina secedes from the Union.

South Carolina secedes from the Union.

• After Lincoln was elected

• Before Lincoln was elected

• After the Civil War started

The southern states that seceded create a government at Montgomery, Alabama and became to be known as

• The New America

• Confederate States of America

• Southern United States

• Southern States of America

February 18, 1861- Jefferson Davis is appointed as

• First general of the confederate army

• First president of the Confederate States of America

• Vice President of the United States

• General of the Union Army

March 4, 1861

• Lincoln is inaugurated

• Civil War begins

• Union Army is formed

• Lincoln is assassinated

She was the author of the influential book Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Harriet Tubman

• Rosa Parks

• Betty Toms

This general led the “march to the sea

• Stonewall Jackson

• John Brown

• Sherman

• Lee

Shots were fired at Ft. Sumter, South Carolina on this date, officially sparking the Civil War

• 1861

• 1860

• 1862

• 1856

Nickname for Civil War General Thomas Jonathan Jackson

• TJ

• Jack the Ripper

• Lee

• Stonewall

This abolitionist was born into slavery in Maryland and later became a powerful speaker

• Frederick Douglass

• John Brown

• Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Beecher Stowe