1. The Civil War

2. Election of 1860

9. Fort Sumter

11. Antietam Robert E. Lee tried to take a Northern city
His battle plans were discovered and the North won
Bloodiest single day battle in the civil war
Inspired the Emancipation Proclamation- decree to end slavery

15. Gettysburg
This is Robert E. Lee’s last attempt to take a Northern city
The Southern forces were decimated in Pickett’s Charge- 3x3 for a mile charged at the Northern forces. Only a few made it across
Gettysburg Address- encouraged the North to continue the fight
Turning point in the war. No more southern victories

18. http://showcase. netins. net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg
It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

19. Vicksburg
General Grant surrounded the city of Vicksburg in Mississippi in a siege
After several months Vicksburg finally surrendered
This cut the Confederacy in Half

21. Battle of Atlanta
General Sherman of the North laid siege on Atlanta and put the Confederate soldiers on the run South
Sherman burned every town along the way from Atlanta to Savannah- Sherman’s March to the Sea
This took the breath out of the South