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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the American Civil War: . American Civil War – civil war in the United States of America that lasted from 1861 to 1865.
May 6: The Confederate Congress recognizes that a state of war exists between the Confederate States of America and the United States of America. [390] May 6, 18: The Arkansas legislature votes to secede. On May 18, Arkansas is admitted to the Confederacy. [391] May 13: Queen Victoria announces Britain's position. [376]
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
A writer at the Newberry Rising Sun of South Carolina aptly characterizes the forthcoming American Civil War from four years' distance. March 4, 1857 – Buchanan becomes the 15th president; Breckinridge becomes the 14th vice president; 1857 – Dred Scott v.
The concise illustrated history of the American Revolution (1972) for secondary schools online 136pp; Fremont-Barnes, Gregory, and Richard Alan Ryerson, eds. The Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War: A Political, Social, and Military History (5 vol. 2006) George, Lynn. A Timeline of the American Revolution (2002) 24pp; for middle ...
The history of the United States from 1815 to 1849—also called the Middle Period, the Antebellum Era, or the Age of Jackson—involved westward expansion across the American continent, the proliferation of suffrage to nearly all white men, and the rise of the Second Party System of politics between Democrats and Whigs.
Music history of the United States to the Civil War; Music of the American Civil War; Music history of the United States in the late 19th century; Music history of the United States (1900–1940) Music history of the United States in the 1950s; Music history of the United States in the 1960s; Music history of the United States in the 1970s
Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War; Troop engagements of the American Civil War, 1861; Troop engagements of the American Civil War, 1862; Troop engagements of the American Civil War, 1863; Troop engagements of the American Civil War, 1864; Troop engagements of the American Civil War, 1865