1. The Tide Turned for the North

2. Battle of Atlanta (Atlanta, GA)
Date:
November 15, 1864
Significance:
Start of the Union’s policy of Total War (defeat the military and devastate the South’s civilian population)

3. Sherman’s March to the Sea
Date:
November 15 to December 21, 1864
Significance:
Destroyed the South’s strategic and economic capacity to fight
Success helped Lincoln win reelection (along with victories in the West)

6. Burning of
Richmond

7. Surrender at the Appomattox Court House
Date:
April 9, 1865
Significance:
General Robert E. Lee formally surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant
Official end to the American Civil War

8. President Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination
Date:
April 14, 1865
Significance:
Confederate soldier John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln at Ford’s theater
Vice President Andrew Johnson became the 17th U.S. President

10. Deadliest war in U.S. History
Human Costs
Deadliest war in U.S. History

11. Economic Costs $8 billion war Nationwide Inflation
The South was destroyed physically and financially