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Lincoln was elected president thanks to his opinion against slavery.
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South Carolina, Florida Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina and Tennessee, these 11 states formed the Confederate states of America.
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When southern troops fire at Fort Sumter the Civil war begins.
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Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation and freed all the slaves in the Confederacy but not in the slave states that were still part of the Union.
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this battle was one of the bloodiest and longest it was very important for the war, the Union won the battle.
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The U.S Congress passes the 13th amendment and declares slavery illegal.
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The war ends when general Lee surrenders to general Grant in Virginia at the village of Appomattox Court House.
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Five days after the end of the war Lincoln gets shot in a theatre.
