Students, history and Civil War buffs can have answers lickety split at their fingertips. This timeline in 6 laminated pages includes the critical people and events that played a part in this heroic and tragic turning point that fortified American pride.

Topics covered include:

• The Crisis of the Union, 1848-1856
• The Specter of Secession, 1857–1860
• The War Begins, 1861
• The Fighting Deepens, 1862
• The Turning Point, 1863
• The Union’s Hard Road to Victory, 1864
• The War at Sea & on the Rivers, 1861–1865
• The War on the Home Front, 1861–1865
• The Union Preserved, 1865
• Presidential Reconstruction, 1863–1866
• Radical Reconstruction, 1867–1877

Suggested uses:

• Students – Review before relevant history tests, support class lessons and textbook, impress your teachers & professors
• Teachers/Professors – fact bank to build tests & quizzes, lesson plan support, reference for documentary film viewing, supplement to the textbook
• Reenactors – Indestructible reference during muddy Civil War reenactments