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This timeline of events leading to the American Civil War is a chronologically ordered list of events and issues that historians recognize as origins and causes of the American Civil War. These events are roughly divided into two periods: the first encompasses the gradual build-up over many decades of the numerous social, economic, and ...
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.
Battles of the American Civil War were fought between April 12, 1861, and May 12–13, 1865 in 19 states, mostly Confederate (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia [A]), the District of Columbia, and six territories (Arizona ...
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
Second Samoan Civil War, August 22, 1898 – November 14, 1899 Anglo-German Samoa Convention, November 14, 1899 The United States annexes Eastern Samoa, December 2, 1899; Philippine–American War, June 2, 1899 – June 15, 1913 Philippine Declaration of Independence, June 12, 1898; The Philippines declares war on the United States, June 2, 1899
Pro-Palestinian demonstrations at UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State University have drawn more attention to the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, with calls for a cease fire and a ...
April 15, 1865 – President Lincoln assassinated; Vice President Johnson becomes the 17th president; April–June 1865 – American Civil War ends as the last elements of the Confederacy surrender; 1865 – Ku Klux Klan founded; 1865 – Slavery abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment. 1866 – Civil Rights Act of 1866
American Civil War in Alabama, Encyclopedia of Alabama; Grand Valley State University Civil War digital collection; Seven Civil War Stories Your Teacher Never Told You by Eric Johnson, CNN, June 12, 2009; The American Civil War Timeline Project - A community contributed project to, chronologically and geographically, map the events of the war.