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Significance- This battle was considered by many historians to be Lee’s greatest victory. At the same time, the South lost one of its greatest strategic minds with the death of Stonewall Jackson.
Winner- Confederate
What? battle -
Abraham Lincoln was the the 16th president, only serving from 1860-1865 when he was shot and killed. Lincoln was against slavery.
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Significance: By forcing the Union soldiers within to surrender, the seige gave the Southerners confidence that they might win a War of Secession, giving them a reason to raise troops.
Winner- Confederate
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Significance: Stopped south from importing goods to and from the union. Victory: north/union
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Significance: It was an indication that this would be a long and bloody war and would require new leadership and improved training to prepare the federal troops for sustained action in the field.
Victory: confederate -
Most important naval battle in the civil war.
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Significance- moved the Union closer to its western goal of gaining control of the Mississippi River
Winner- Major union victory -
Significance- It was a turning point for the civil war, because it gave the Union the ability to move further down South.
Victor- Union -
Significance: put union out of battle for weeks
Victory: confederate
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Significance- It was the last in Robert E. Lee's impressive string of victories in Summer 1862 that had brought the British close to intervening on the side of the South.
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Significance- Deadliest battle fought by the us army.
Winner- Union
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Significance: It freed the confederate territory
Doccument/speech -
When this document went into effect all slaves had to be free.
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Significance: Robert E. Lee attempted and failed to invade the North in a move designed to take pressure off of Virginia and possibly earn a victory that could end the war. The failure of Pickett’s Charge meant that the South had lost. The loss for the South was demoralizing and General Lee never again attempted to invade the North on this grand scale.
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Significance- Victory in the battle of Vicksburg gave control of the Mississippi River to the Union.
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Significance- It was Lincolns most famous speech and one of the most quoted speeches in us history.
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Significance: President Abe Lincoln had to sign a document in order for this to be allowed.
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Significance- Officially ended slavery.
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Significance- One of the most important people in the civil war.
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Significance: Atlanta fell on 2 September 1864, and Fremont withdrew from the election,citing fears that he would split the Republican vote, thus leading to a McClellan victory.However, following the fall of Atlanta Fremont probably realized that such an achievement so close to election day had fatally damaged his chances.
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Significance: It was the 4th year of the civil war and many were questioning whether the South could be fully conquered militarily.
What? Presidential election -
Significance- It destroyed the south and their economy.
Union won
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Significance- it took Sherman and his troops a mere 24 days to march south across Georgia before they reached Savannah. This was the souths most valuable port.
Union victory
this was a battle -
Union troops occupy Richmond and Petersburg, Virginia.
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Why?
His assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was a Southern sympathizer and he hoped that the death of Lincoln, VP Johnson and Secrertary of State Seward (all of whom were targeted to die the night Lincoln was killed) would throw the Union government into such turmoil that the South would be inspired to win the war. But this would have been wildly improbable after Lee's surrender 5 days earlier.
