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| CHAPTER 17 | THE WAR OF THE UNION | OVERVIEW |
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CHAPTER TIMELINE |
| March 4, 1861 |
Lincoln’s inauguration |
| April 12, 1861 |
firing on Fort Sumter |
| July 21, 1861 |
first Battle of Bull Run |
| 1862 |
Legal Tender Act |
| April 1862 |
Battle of Shiloh |
| April 1862 |
Battle of Shiloh |
| March 9, 1862 |
Monitor v. Merrimack |
| April 1862 |
Lincoln abolished slavery in Washington, D.C. |
| August 1862 |
second Battle of Bull Run |
| September 1862 |
Battle of Antietam |
| December 1862 |
Battle of Fredericksburg |
| 1863 |
National Banking Act |
| 1863 |
Habeas Corpus Act |
| January 1, 1863 |
Emancipation Proclamation |
| May 1863 |
Union army began recruiting blacks |
| May 1863 |
Battle of Chancellorsville |
| July 4, 1863 |
Union victories at Vicksburg and Gettysburg |
| July 1863 |
New York City draft riots |
| fall of 1863 |
Battle of Chattanooga |
| 1863 |
West Virginia became a state |
| 1864 |
Nevada admitted to the union |
| May 1864 |
Battle of the Wilderness |
| June 1864 |
Battle of Cold Harbor |
| November 1864 |
Lincoln reelected |
| November 1864 |
destruction of Atlanta |
| January 1865 |
Missouri and Tennessee abolished slavery |
| April 9, 1865 |
Surrender at Appomattox |
| December 1865 |
Thirteenth Amendment ratified |
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CHAPTER OBJECTIVES |
After you finish reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to: |
- Explain how the outbreak of fighting occurred.
- Analyze the advantages that each side had in the war.
- Describe the problems associated with raising an army for both the North and
the South.
- Trace the major strategic and military developments of the Civil War.
- Explain the political problems of the governments in both the North and the
South.
- Account for the emancipation of the slaves and describe its impact.
- Describe Confederate diplomatic aspirations.
- Explain how each side financed the war and the economic effects of the war
on the North.
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