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This event could be considered the event that ultimantly led to the souther states wanting to secede. They saw Abraham Lincoln as a man who wanted to change their ways and hated him for it, this is what led them to leave the United States.
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This battle was important because it was considered the battle that started the Civil War. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Sumter
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The blockade was very important becuase it made it harder for the South the ship theiir goods out and get money, it also made it harder for them to get supplise during the war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_blockade
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This battle was important because the Union decided to march on the Confederate capital and try to end the war early but then the Confederates put up a fight and showed the Union that they were not a force to be reconed with.
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This was considered the most important naval battle of the civil war because it established each sides standing in naval warfare, the confederacy tired to break the union blockade and it didnt work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hampton_Roads
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The Union army won this battle but even though they won many lives were lost showing both sides that this was going to be a violent long war. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shiloh
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These battles took place in Virginia and were important becuase both sides lost many men in this series of battles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_Battles
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The battle of Gettysburg was very important in the civil war becuase it had the greatest number of casualties of any battle fought during the civil war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gettysburg
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This battle was won by the confederacy it was a very important battle that helped determine the Northern Virinia Campain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Bull_Run
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This battle was the most violent day in american war history more soldiers were killed here than anywhere else during the war, this battle was faught on Union territory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Antietam
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The emancipation proclamation was improtant because it was when Abraham Lincoln declared all of the slaves of the south forever free. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation
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With the new law in place it allowed the Union to expand even more on the new rule of slavery being illegal everywhere in the United States. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-emancipation-proclamation-takes-effect
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This battle was one of the attempts the Union made to take over the confederate capital and it failed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chancellorsville
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This battle was very important becuase with the Union controling a large portion of the Mississippi they could moderate what travled on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Vicksburg
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This speach is still to this day historic, it was spoken by Able Lincoln himself he gave it to the soldiers after there loss at Gettysburg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address
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This event was important beucase Ulysses S. Grant helped guide the Union army to victory and defeat the confederacy. He later became president also. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant
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This law made slavery no longer leagal in the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
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Without their general and leader the confederate army was nothing. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/robert-e-lee-surrenders
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This was important becuase with Abraham Lincoln as president the Union continued to try to regain control of the south. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1864
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This battle was improtatnt because with the Union winning the battle they then controled the railways there which played a key part in their victory of the civil war. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Atlanta
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This battle allowed the union to control a very large sum of what the confederates had used to manufacture things like weapons, also it helped them take over more railroads. http://www.todayingeorgiahistory.org/content/sherman-captures-atlanta
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This march by Sherman and his men left ruin all the way through the south destroying everything in their path. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman's_March_to_the_Sea
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In this battle the Union blocked off all ways to transfer supplise to the Confederate army. http://www.cmstory.org/history/timeline/default.asp?tp=9&ev=182
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This was a key move in the battle it gave the Union army a distinct advantage over the Confederates. http://blueandgraytrail.com/year/186504
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President lincoln was the first president to be succesfully assassinated. This was ment to be a turning point in the war for the confederates, (but it didnt work) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln
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Even though the general of the Confederacy had surrendered and the Civil war was considered won by the north, Abraham Lincoln was assasinated by John Wilkes Booth in an attempt to revive the Souths cause.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln
