American Civil War: Union army volunteerUnion army volunteer, photograph by Mathew Brady, 1861. With war upon the land, President Lincoln called for 75,000 militiamen to serve for three months. He proclaimed anaval blockadeof the Confederate states, although he insisted that they did not legally...
With an ineffective first secretary of war—Simon Cameron—Lincoln unhesitatingly insinuated himself directly into the planning of military movements. Edwin M. Stanton, a well-known lawyer appointed to the secretaryship on January 20, 1862, was equally untutored in military affairs, but he was ...
April 9, General Robert E. Lee surrenders to General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia(*Collectively known as theAppomattox Campaign.) Civil War Timeline Articles From History Net Magazines Civil War 1861
During the Cold War in the U.S., President Harry S. Truman created a Federal Civil Defense Administration program that administered school drills to teach students about safety in the case of a nuclear attack. Students were trained to dive under their desks and cover their heads. A film, “...
The Spanish Civil War Timeline 12 Jul 1936In Spain, Calvé Sotelo, a well-known monarchist, was murdered by Republican storm troopers, and passions were roused to even greater fury when, at the funeral, police opened fire, killing four of the mourners. ...
The Civil War began in 1861 when the Rebels fired upon Fort Sumter. Some other major events of 1861 are: Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as the 16th president of the United States, the Southern states secede from the Union, the Confederate States of America’s government is formed with Jeffers...
Civil Rights Day timeline 1861 American Civil War The American Civil War begins between the Union and Confederacy. 1865 Reconstruction Era Slavery is abolished as part of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments in the U.S. Constitution. 1954 Civil Rights Movement Martin Luther King Jr. triggers ...
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This civil rights movement timeline covers the start of the racial equality fight, such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Martin Luther King's rise.
This civil rights movement timeline covers the struggle's second phase in which nonviolent action was put to the test during the early 1960s.