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Causes	Remote or Indirect	1. Invention of Cotton Gin
		2. Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
		3. Tariff Laws
		4. Industrial Differences
		5. Slavery debates in Congress
		6. Slavery legislation
	Immediate or Direct	1. Sectional Literature
		2. Anti-Slavery Societies
		3. Fugitive Slave Law
		5. Election of Lincoln
The War for the Union	1861	1. Opinions regarding the length of the war
		2. Inauguration of Lincoln
		3. States which seceded
		4. Organization of Confederacy
		5. Firing on the "Star of the West"
		6. Bombardment of Fort Sumter
		7. War Measures
		8. Baltimore Rioting
		9. Events in Missouri
		10. Trent affair
		11. Battle of Bull Run
	1862	1. Capture of Forts Henry and Donelson
		2. Monitor and Merrimac
		3. Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing)
		4. New Orleans Captured
		5. Peninsular Campaign
		6. Williamsburg
		7. Perryville
		8. Events in Shenandoah
		9 . Second Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)
		10. Antietam
		11. Emancipation Proclamation issued
		12. Battle of Fredericksburg
	1863	1. Daily expenses
		2. National Banking System established
		3. Military Situation
		4. Battle of Murfeesboro
		5. England's attitude toward the Confederacy
		6. Siege and surrender of Vicksburg
		7. Battle of Chickamauga
		8. Battle of Lookout Mt. and Missionary Ridge
		9. Siege of Knoxville
		10. Battle of Chancellorsville
		11. Battle of Gettysburg
		12. Morgan's raid
		13. Emancipation becomes effective
		14. West Virginia admitted into the Union
	1864	1. Grant made Lieutenant-General
		2. Plan for continuance of the struggle
		3. Raids in the Shenandoah Valley
		4. Battle of Mobile Bay
		5. Destruction of the Albemarle
		6. English built Confederate Cruisers
		7. Atlanta Campaign
		8. Sherman's march through Georgia
		9. Napolean's duplicity
		10. The Wilderness campaign
	1865	1. The famous Hampton Roads meeting
		2. Disaster at Petersburg
		3. Shenandoah Valley desolated
		4. Sheridan's ride
		5. Evacuation and burning of Richmond
		6. Lee's surrender
		7. Johnston's surrender
		8. Capture of Davis
		9. Thanksgiving
		10. Lincoln's assassignation
		11. The French in Mexico

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