1 Lincoln's election: his lack of popular majority was signs of the problems with the divided nation.
2. Confederacy formed: Seven southern states write their own constitution, and plan for an independent nation.
3. New Orleans: Farragut seizes New Orleans for union after bold attack.
4.Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln announces that all slaves of rebelling states would be free.
5. Gettysburg: largest battle in the western hemisphere
6. Petersburg: Grant has powerful troops along the rail road in trenches focusing on a train
7. Lee Surrenders: Lee no longer could stand seeing his troops suffer so he surrendered to the union
