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The Civil war
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President elected
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South Carolina seceded from the U.S. when Abraham Lincoln was elected as president. Because he hated slavery, South Carolina saw this as a threat and continued to have slavery in the state.
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Lincoln attempted to send supplies to Fort Sumter. He warned the state in advance, but South Carolina wanted the fort to surrender. The Civil War began when shots were fired at Fort Sumter in an attempt to stop Lincoln's supplies from reaching the fort. Robert Anderson finally surrendered the fort over to the Confederates after two days of attacking.
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The Battle of Fort Sumter is in fact known as the first engagement of the civil war. It was a masonry coastal fortification that was bombarded and eventually forced to surrender.
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North Carolina joins the Confederate army. they were the eleventh and last state to do so.
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Lincoln goes to congress requesting them to find 500,000 men for his army.
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The naval Battle
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The Battle of Antietam was considered the bloodiest day in America's history. During this battle, over 26,000 men were killed, wounded, or missing on both sides. The battle was considered a draw, but it stopped Lee from going into Maryland and he went back to Virginia.
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Lincoln addresses his Emancipation Proclamation which frees slaves in all the Union land and allows black soldiers into the army. From this point forward, the Civil War was a war fought over slavery.
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This is when the first draft in American history took place. Congress ordered a draft and all men had to go to war unless they paid the government $300 or came up with a substitute. Thi started drafting riots in major Northern cities like New York.
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Thomas Stonewall Jackson was a Confederate general during the Civil War, and was the best known Confederate commander after General Robert E. Lee. He was accidentally shot at the Battle of Chancellorsville by a rebel bullet shot by one of his own men, which he survived, but had to have an arm amputated. His death was a huge setback for the Confederacy, affecting not only the military but also the morale of its army and the public.
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The Battle of Little Round Top was fought by the 20th Maine Infantry Regiment commanded by Colonel Joshua Chamberlain . It was tan unsuccessful assault by Confederate troops against the Union left flank on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, but was said to be the key point in the Union Army's defensive line that day.
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Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg address which is a 2 mkinute long speech about the war itself.
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Grant is now in charge of all Union armies and General William T. Sherman takes over his previous position in the West.
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In the United States Presidential election of 1864, Abraham Lincoln was re-elected as president. Lincoln ran against his former #1 Civil War general, George B. McClellan. Abraham Lincolns second term ended 6 weeks after his inauguration because he was assassinated. The election took place during the civil war.
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The Thirteenth Ammendment is approved and passed by Congress which gets rid of slavery.
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Lincoln is sworn in for his second term as president of the United States.
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General Robert E. Lee of the Confederate states surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant which ends the war. The north Union has won.
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The surrender at Appomattox Courthouse was the signing of surrender documents that occurred in the parlor of the house owned by a civilian, Wilmer McLean. Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee had surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant.
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President Lincoln gets shot at Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth.
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Lincoln does not regain conciousness after being shot and dies.
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General of the biggest Confederate army is the last one to surrender, leavign the Union to win the war and the nation to remain together.
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The war was ended when General Stand Waitie of the confederate side surrendered at Fort Gibson. He was last general to surrender.
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The 13th amendment abolishes slavery. It was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, passed by the House on January 31, 1865, and finally adopted on December 6, 1865.
