The presidential election of 1860 was important because it had demonstrated the division of the states.

Fort Sumter was a location in which one of many wars was fought during the civil war with a one single dead soldier.

Bull run was the war that was on full scale and was a spark into the Civil war.

The Union won victory at Antietam provided President Abraham lincoln the opportunity he had wanted to announce the Emancipation Proclamation, making the Battle of Antietam one of the turning points of the American Civil War.

As The Civil War was fought from 1861 to 1865. The Battle of Fredericksburg in 1862 was one of the most important battle of the war. It was a battle with many Union casualties, the largest river crossing of the war, and it also acted as a boost for the Confederate hopes of victory!.

As The 47-day siege gave control of the Mississippi River to the Union, a critical supply line, and was part of the Union's Anaconda Plan to cut off outside trade to the Confederacy