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Lincoln tries to resupply Fort Sumter and the Confederacy sees it as a chance to attack. The Union surrenders to the Confederacy with no cassualties.
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The public was eager for the north to advance on Richmond. Abraham Lincoln advanced the troops to Richmond. The Union retreated because the confederacy received beckup.
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This battle was Lees attempt to invade the North that was unsuccessful. This battle led to the Union winning, and would shape America forever.
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Lincoln needed more people on board with him in the war. He created the Emancipation Proclamation as a war act to free slaves. This didn't free any slaves, but help the Union fight for human freedom.
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This was the first official black regiment that served in the Union. Their fight at fort Wagner was benneficialk to the union army as a turning point.
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After a victory over the Union forces, General Lee decided to march to Northern Virginia to hope to finish off the union. The union wins this battle and also gains claim of the Mississippi. Lee would not even launch an attack on US soil.
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This was one of the Unions most successful campaigns. Grant decided to try and take another city. He then starts to defeat the forces at Vicksburg and takes the city in siege.
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Violent riots that started out in lower Manhatten over the new Congress law that people who were drafted had to serve in the war.
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It was a 200-word speech that Abraham Lincoln created that lasted 2 minutes. It will go down as one of the best speeches in American history.
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A military campaign composed by William Tecumseh Sherman who marched through Georgia from November and ended in December with the capture of fort Savanah.
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The 13th passed through the senate and house. It abolishes slavery and involuntary work unless someone is incarcerated. Even though this was a big step people got around it through loopholes. This would start mass incarceration.
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Lincoln signed a bill so that the new freed African Americans will now have a place that helps them in society now.
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General Lee would surrender in this war after a mass defeat against the Union. This few hour battle brought the civil war to an end. The Confederates would soon sign a treaty and join the Union again
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Five days after the surrender, John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln because Booth was a Confederate sympathizer.This made Andrew Johnson president.
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This amendment granted citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the US. This also included the new freed African Americans.
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This was a case brought in front of the supreme court as if racial segregation laws were constitutional. The court said they were okay if they were equal in quality.
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This amendment allowed African Americans to vote seeing that they are US citizens.
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It was the end of the Civil war reconstruction, but slaves were not considered equal still and many segregation laws would be passed. Things like lynchings would occur and civil rights eras.