Students in 5th Grade are working on understanding the chain of events at the beginning of the civil war and in doing so completed a timeline:- Nov 1860 - Lincoln Elected President of USA
- Dec 20, 1860 - South Carolina secedes
- Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Texas secede
- Feb 4, 1861 - Confederacy formed, Jeff Davis elected president
- March 1861 - Lincoln takes over as president
- April 12, 1861 - Confederates attack Ft. Sumter
- Lincoln Calls for 75,000 volunteers
- North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Arkansas join the Confederacy
