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Charelston Convention in December passed the first ordinace of succession after a unanimous vote. Within six weeks six other deep south states followed.
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After South Carolina succeeded in 1860, a year later ten more fallowed including: Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina.
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The confederacy was a number of Southern slave states that had declared their secession from the United States. The Confederacy recognized as members eleven states that had formally declared secession, two additional states with less formal declarations, and one new territory.
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Jefferson Davis becomes president of the confederacy. He was chosen partly because he was a well-known and experienced moderate who had served in a president's cabinet.
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Ft. Sumter was located in the middle of the harbor of Charleston SC where the U.S. forts garrison had withdrawn to avoid incidents with local militias in the streets of the city. Northerners rallied behind Lincoln's call for all the states to send troops to recapture the forts and to preserve the Union. Begins war.
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This battle was fought in Prince William County, Virginia, near the city of Manassas. It was the first major land battle of the American Civil War.Just months after the start of the war at Fort Sumter, the Northern public clamored for a march against the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, which they expected to bring an early end to the rebellion.
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It was the culmination of an offensive campaign waged by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia against Union Maj. Gen. On August 28, 1862, Jackson attacked a Union column just east of Gainesville, at Brawner's Farm, resulting in a stalemate.
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Issued by Lincoln to all segments of the Executive Branch. It proclaimed all those enslaved in Confederate territory to be forever free, and was not issued by congress.
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This Battle was fought from April 30th to May 6th in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Chancellorsville is known as Lee's "perfect battle" because his risky decision to divide his army in the presence of a much larger enemy force resulted in a significant Confederate victory.
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Battle fought from the 1st through the 3rd ove july near the area of Gettysburg Pennsylvania. This battle had the largest number of casualties in the Civil War, and is often seen as the wars turning point.
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With Lincoln's by the northerners, any hope of a negotiation with the confederacy vanished. He beat Democrat George B. McClellan in the elcetion. At this time the Civil War was in its fourth year.
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This federal government agency aided freed slaves during the Reconstruction era. This bureau was initiated by Lincoln as was desined to last one year after the Civil War.
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The assasination happened five days after confederate commander Robert E. Lee surrendered, ending the Civil War. The assination was done why John Wilkes Booth as part of a larger conspiracy in a bid to revive the Confederate cause.
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This ratification of the 13th amendment ended slavery. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
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The Klan has advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically expressed through terrorism. Six wel educated confederates created the original Klan in 1865.
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The Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution was passed by both houses on 8th June and the 13th June, 1866. The amendment was designed to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liberties of recently freed slaves.
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As part of the ongoing process of reconstituion after the civil war congress passed four statutes beggining in July. the title was "An act to provide for the more efficient government of the Rebel States." Fulfillment of the requirements of the Acts were necessary for the former Confederate States to be readmitted to the Union.
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This is the first presidential election aftert he Civil war. Ulysses S. Grant is a republican candidate with running mate Schuyler Colfax, beating democratic candidate Horatio Seymour.
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This amendment gave African men the right to vote, declaring "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
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Also know as th "Civil Rights" Act of 1870 empowered the president with the legal authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States.
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Grant's secretary worked out a deal with British Rep. John Rose to create a commision of 12 men, six British and six American. The treaty included the settlement process for the Alabama Claims, settled disputed Atlantic fisheries and the San Juan Boundary.
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IT was the 22nd qualrennial presidential election. Ulysses S. Grant was reelected after beating his opponent Horace Greeley. Grant was a rePublican and his running mate was Henry Wilson.
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M ostly Rebublican Politicians, the scandel involved the conversion of tax revenues among governments agents, whiskey distillers, and distibutors.
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The last of the troops leave the south from the compromise of 1877. This also ended the Confederate states of America threw the 14th and 15th Ammendments to the U.S. Constitution.
