The Civil WarThe American war between the

North and the South Created by Lisa Bremer

2003

The American Civil War (1861 - 1865) was one of the most violent times in

the History of the United States. Many books have been written on all aspects

of the Civil War.

More than 600,000 men gave their lives for their country in this war. This is more lives lost in one war than in all wars and conflicts combined following

this period in time.

There were many reasons for a Civil War to happen in America,

and political issues and disagreements began soon after the American Revolution ended

in 1782.

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Civil War Timeline

Showing Major Events in the Civil War

Confederate Flag U.S.A. Flag

Confederate Union

(The South)

Union Uniform

(The North)

Important People of the

Civil War

Frederick Douglass was one of the foremost leaders of the abolitionist

movement, which fought to end slavery within the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War.

A brilliant speaker, Douglass was asked by the American Anti-Slavery

Society to engage in a tour of lectures, and so became recognized as one of America's first great black speakers. He won world fame when his autobiography was publicized in

1845. Two years later he began publishing an antislavery paper

called the North Star.

Clara Barton1821 - 1912

Angel of the Battlefield,American Red Cross Founder

Chief Justice Roger Taney

In 1856, a seemingly unnecessary supporting case

for the 1820 Missouri Compromise, Dred Scott vs

Sandford, was allowed before the Court. This meant it would be seen by Chief Justice Taney.

Taney wrote the majority opinion in the Scott case,

confirming slaves as property by ruling against Negro citizenship

and then declaring that the Compromise itself was

unconstitutional because Congress had no right, under the

constitutional protection of private property, to bar slavery

from new territories.

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Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the

United States, guided his country through the most devastating experience in its national history--the

CIVIL WAR.

Abraham Lincoln is the President known for abolishing slavery.

Ulysses S.

Grant

18th president of the United

States

The man we know as Ulysses S. Grant was

actually named Hiram Ulysses Grant.

Before Grant became the 18th President of the

United States. He was a leader/General for the

Union Military during the Civil War.

Victories in the Civil War made Ulysses S.

Grant a national figure and propelled him into

the White House.

Robert E. Lee

Lee, a career army officer and the most successful

general of the Confederate forces during the

American Civil War.

Lee eventually commanded all

Confederate armies as general-in-chief.

Lee’s victories against superior forces in a losing cause made him famous. As a result, he is more

widely-known than Ulysses S. Grant, the

general who defeated him.

Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis, a Senator from Mississippi, was chosen by the

Confederate States of America to be their first president.

Civil Rights Movement

The Supreme Court rules on the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, unanimously agreeing that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. The ruling paves the way for large-scale desegregation. The decision overturns the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling that sanctioned "separate but equal" segregation of the races, ruling that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." It is a victory for NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall, who will later return to the Supreme Court as the nation's first black justice.

May 17, 1954

The Montgomery Bus Boycott

The Montgomery Bus Boycott officially started on December 1, 1955. That was the day when

the blacks of Montgomery, Alabama, decided that they would boycott the city buses until they could sit anywhere they wanted, instead of being relegated to the back when a

white boarded.

It was not, however, the day that the movement to desegregate the

buses started. Perhaps the movement started on the day in 1943 when a black seamstress

named Rosa Parks paid her bus fare and then watched the bus

drive off as she tried to re-enter through the rear door, as the

driver had told her to do.

Rosa Parks

Later, on the 1st of December 1955, Mrs. Rosa Parks, was arrested in

Montgomery, Alabama for not standing and letting a white bus

rider take her seat.

Rosa Parks being fingerprinted for her actions on the Montgomery, Alabama Bus

Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham, Alabama, served as the center of black industrial

employment for nearly a century, and the major site of black labor

struggles and civil rights protests.

During civil rights protests in Birmingham, Ala., Commissioner of Public Safety Eugene "Bull" Connor

uses fire hoses and police dogs on black demonstrators. These images of

brutality, which are televised and published widely, are instrumental in gaining sympathy for the civil rights

movement around the world.

Birmingham Civil Rights MarchMay 1963

The Birmingham Civil Rights March

Civil rights act of 1964To enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States to provide injunctive relief

against discrimination in public accommodations, to authorize the Attorney

General to institute suits to protect constitutional rights in public facilities and

public education, to extend the Commission on Civil Rights, to prevent discrimination in federally assisted programs, to establish a

Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity, and for other purposes.

American Indian Movement (AIM), organization of the Native American civil-

rights movement, founded in 1968. Its purpose is to encourage self-determination among Native Americans and to establish international recognition of their treaty

rights.

Samuel Gompers1850-1924

First President of the American Federation of

Labor, 1886-1924

One of the founders of the American Federation of Labor in 1886. He was

elected president, a position he held, except for one year, until his death 38 years later.

Jane Addams

Founder of the Hull House

Jane did an enormous amount when it came to peace.

Jane Addams is best known as the founder of Hull House, a place that provided aid to

poor working-class families in Chicago. These centers are often called "settlement

houses.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A Civil Rights Activist who is most

famous for his speech

“I Have A Dream”

Governor Austin Peay

AUSTIN PEAY

Governor of Tennessee 1901-1927

Native of Kentucky and the first and only Governor of Tennessee to die while in office.

Austin Peay University is named after him.

Was known for his work towards the transportation(roads) in Tennessee

Anne Dallas Dudley

Nashville native and women's

suffrage leader.

Dudley was a nationally recognized leader in the woman suffrage movement. She was president of the Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association and third vice president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and the first at-large woman delegate to the Democratic National Convention (1920). She and others led a campaign to change the stereotype suffragettes had acquired as anti-family radicals.

Dudley worked for the ratification of the 19th Amendment by the Tennessee General Assembly, making the state the thirty-sixth to ratify and woman suffrage the law of the land. Founder of the Nashville Suffrage League