Procedures

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Procedures
Civil War Timeline

• Pick a Civil War event card to research
• Using the Internet and the Library books that I
  have provided you are going to research your
  EVENT
• Write a short summary to explain your event. You
  will type this up while at the Computer Lab.
• Find a picture of the event that you would like
  to draw and draw it for your final project.

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1860Abraham Lincoln is Elected into office
Project Layout
At the top of the construction paper that will be
provided to you, you will write the DATE, and
EVENT that occurred. Underneath that you will but
you illustration of the EVENT. Below that you
will have the typed summary.
1860 Lincoln elected to office
In November of 1860, Lincoln was Elected into
the Presidential Office. This was not accepted
freely by the Southern States. South Carolina
Seceded from the Union a month Later. This was
the start of the Civil War.
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For Research you can try these sites
HELPFUL WEBSITES

• 1820 Missouri Comprimise
• 1831 Nat Turners Slave Rebellion
• 1847 Fredrick Turner The North Star
• 1847 Dred Scott Sues for Freedom
• 1849 Harriet Tubman Escapes
• 1850 Compromise

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For Research you can try these sites
HELPFUL WEBSITES

• 1852 Sojourner Truth Speaks at Convention
• 1852 Uncle Toms Cabin is Published
• 1854 Kansas Nebraska Act
• 1858 Lincoln/Douglas Debates
• 1860 South Carolina Secedes from Union
• 1861 Fl, Ga, Al, Tx, La, Ms Secede from the Union

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For Research you can try these sites
HELPFUL WEBSITES

• 1861 Confederate States are formed
• 1861 Abraham Lincoln becomes President
• 1861 Confederate Troops fire on Fort Sumter
• 1861 Union Confederate Army need Volunteers
• 1861 Battle of Bull Run
• 1863 Emancipation Proclamation

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For Research you can try these sites
HELPFUL WEBSITES

• 1863 Battle of Vicksburg
• 1863 Battle of Gettysburg
• 1863 Lincoln gives the Gettysburg Address
• 1864 Shermans March to the Seas/Savannah Falls
• 1865 Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court
  House

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For Research you can try these sites
HELPFUL WEBSITES

• 1865 Abraham Lincoln Assassinated
• 1865 Freedmans Bureau Established
• 1865 13th Amendment added to the Constitution
• 1868 14th Amendment added to the Constitution
• 1870 15th Amendment added to the Constitution
• 1877 Reconstruction Ends