What are 7 events that happened during the Civil War & their effects on the war?

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