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Licoln was elected to his first term in 1860. Thern sis caused the tes to leave the union.
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Lincoln had considered the talk of secession to be bluff and bluster. He believed the attachment Southerners felt for the United States would not allow them to leave the Union.
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The Confederate constitution incorporated verbatim large
segments of the U.S. Constitution, including its first twelve
amendments. The Confederate States of America came into existence on February 4, 1861 -
the firing on fort sumter took place in 1861.
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It was the first real major conflict of the American Civil War. A Union army, consisting of 28,000 men, commanded by General McDowell, fought 33,000 Confederates under General Beauregard.
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Also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg. Was the first Battle of the American Civil War to take place on northern soil.
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It was issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863. Proclaimed the freedom of 3.1 million of the 4 million slaves.
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The Confederate surrender following the siege at Vicksburg is sometimes considered, when combined with Gen. Robert E. Lee's defeat at Gettysburg the previous day, the turning point of the war. It also cut off communication with Confederate forces in the Trans-Mississippi Department for the remainder of the war.
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The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. One of the most well-known speeches in United States History.
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Abraham Licoln was told he wouldn't win the election. He won the Republican Nomination.
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Was the final engagement of Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, and one of the last battles of the American Civil War. Robert E. Lee surrenders after being blocked off by the union.
