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Many people in the South didn't agree with Lincoln. When he was elected president it caused states to want to leave the Union.
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South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas left the Union and formed the Confederacy.
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South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union. They didn't cast a single vote for President Lincoln. This started a chain reaction and other states seceded after them.
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President Lincoln took office and was officially the leader of the Union. This caused anger in many states,
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The Confederacy was blocking supplies from the soldiers at Fort Sumter. On April 12, 1861 the Confederacy open fired on Fort Sumter and this was the first battle starting the Civil War.
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AKA the Battle of Manassas Junction
4,500 Confederate soldiers
10,000 Union soldiers
4,800 casualties from both armies -
30,000 Confederate soldiers
60,000 Union soldiers (15,000 in reserve)
22,000 casualties
"Bloodiest day America has ever suffered"
Union won the battle.
Turning point in the war. -
After the Confederates lost the Battle of Antietam, neither France or Britain wanted to support the Confederacy in the Civil War.
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It was supposed to free slaves in the Confederate states. It didn't free very many but it gave the Union a strong moral cause to win the war. It later resulted in the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.
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Largest battle faught on the North American continent.
170,000 soldiers faught (95,000 from the union and 75,000 from the Confederacy)
Over 40,000 casualties
3 day battle
Marked the downfall of the Confederacy. -
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Planned to take over Atlanta, Georgia.
Took over Savannah December 22.
Took over Columbia same day Union took back Fort Sumter. -
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Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. He was watching Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater
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John Booth caught at a tabacco barn in Virginia