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Lincoln was elected in 1860 and when the south found out they started to seceed because they wanted to be apart of their own country.
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The southern states seceeded because they thought 6the goverment was getting to strong and to controlling.
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The battlees of Fort Sumter stated the civil war in 1861.
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Battle of Bull Run was the first major battle of tthe american civil war
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It had the largest number or casulties in the civil war and was thought to be the turning point of the war.
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Gen. Lee surrenders his 25,000 Troops to Gen. Grant
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On the 14th of April president Lincoln and his wife Mary went to the Fords theater and was sitting in the presidential box when his guard decided to go tqake a seat in the audience to get a better view of the play when John Wilkes Boothe snuck up to the box and shot Lincoln at point blank range.
