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Lincoln was elected president and they called him honest abe
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confederates under gen. pierre beauregaurd open fire with 50 canons war begins. the confederates win.
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Union Navy had an effort on the Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the confederate states, made to prevent the passage of good trades, supplies, and weapones too and from confederacy.
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In Prince William county, Virginia. Public clamored for a march against the confederate capitol of Richmond, Virginia. Which was expected to bring an early end to the rebellion.
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40,00 confederate soldiers under the command gen. albert sidney johnston poured out of the nearby woods and struck a line of union soliders occupying ground near pittsburg landing on the tennesse river.
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General Robert Lee led the invading Union Army of the potomatic away from richmond, virginia and into a retreat down the virginia peninsula.
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this is almost like a best two of three short war. there were 3 battles in 3 days. the confederates got the W in this one with the least amount of people killed and wounded.
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First major battle to take places on Union soil.
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Orderd issued too all segments of the executive branch of the united states by president abraham lincoln. It proclaimed all those enslaved confederate terriorty to be forever free and ordered the army to treat as free all those enslaved in ten states that were still in rebellion
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This ended slavery in the rebellious states. this is important because it could change the numbers of the union army.
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The confederates won this battle. this is important because they had many more deaths than the union.
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Gen. Hooker defeated. union wins Gen Lee.
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It was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War and is often described as the war's turning point.It ended lee's invasion of the north.
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This the confederates surrender the war. this was important because it cut off the communication with them to the trans-mississippi department.
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decisive confederate victory union army trapped in tein.
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Union troops average their previous defeat.
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States that the nations should have freedom.
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Mistake by grant results in 7,000 union causlaitties.
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Lincoln was re-elected president, beating Democrat George. Lincoln carried all but three states with 55 percent of the popular vote and 212 of 233 electoral votes. "I earnestly believe that the consequences of this day's work will be to the lasting advantage, if not the very salvation, of the country," lincoln told his followers in the crowds and streets
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began with Sherman's troops leaving the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia, on November 16 and ended with the capture of the port of Savannah on December 21.
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Union troops occupy richmond and petersburg, virginia.
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surrenders his 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War. Forced to abandon the Confederate capital of Richmond, blocked from joining the surviving Confederate force in North Carolina, and harassed constantly by Union cavalry, Lee had no other option.
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The stars and stripes is ceremoniously
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finally ended the institution of slavery. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." With these words, the single greatest change wrought by the Civil War was officially noted in the Constitution.
