The Civil War

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
01/29/1859	Kansas is admitted	Kansas is admitted as a state with a constitution prohibiting slavery.
04/19/1859	Lincoln	Lincoln orders a blockade of all Confederate ports
04/12/1860	Fort Sumter	Fort Sumter is bombarded and surrenders to South Carolina troops led by P. G. T. Beauregard.
11/06/1860	Abraham Lincoln is elected President	Abraham Lincoln is elected President, with Hannibal Hamlin as his Vice President.
12/20/1860	South Carolina Secedes	This is the day that South Carolina Secedes from the Union.
03/04/1861	Abraham Lincoln is sworn in	Abraham Lincoln is sworn in as 16th President of the United States of America.
04/12/1861	Civil War begins	At 4:30 a.m. Confederates under Gen. Pierre Beauregard open fire with 50 cannons upon Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The Civil War begins
04/17/1861	Virgina Secedes from the Union	Virginia secedes from the Union, followed within five weeks by Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina, thus forming an eleven state Confederacy with a population of 9 million, including nearly 4 million slaves. The Union will soon have 21 states and a population of over 20 million.
04/19/1861	President Lincoln issues a Proclamation of Blockade	President Lincoln issues a Proclamation of Blockade against Southern ports. For the duration of the war the blockade limits the ability of the rural South to stay well supplied in its war against the industrialized North.
02/20/1862	President Lincoln son dies	President Lincoln is struck with grief as his beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, dies from fever, probably caused by polluted drinking water in the White House.
01/01/1863	Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation	Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, which declares that slaves in the seceded states are now free.
06/20/1863	West Virgina is Born	Residents of the western counties of Virginia did not wish to secede along with the rest of the state. This section of Virginia was admitted into the Union as the state of West Virginia on June 20, 1863.
01/31/1865	Thirteenth Amendment	Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolishes slavery throughout the United States.
03/04/1865	Lincoln is inaugurated	Lincoln is inaugurated as President for a second term.
04/15/1865	Lincoln dies	Lincoln dies, and Andrew Johnson is inaugurated as President.