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Lincoln was a republican from Illinois who was a candidate of the newly created Republican Party where he wanted to limit slavery.
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Collection of states that were from the United States in 1860 due to the election of President Abraham Lincoln. The Confederacy struggled for a while.
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America attacked the military in South Carolina. It was the bloodiest battle of all time because it killed one person and three were wounded(one mortally).
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They designed an export of cotton to smuggle war material into the Confederacy
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They had 3,00 people that were bad due to the battle compared with 1,750 for the Confederates.
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The United States had a victory over the Confederate forces in Tennessee.
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They pitted Union General George McClellan's Army of the Potomac against General Robert E. Lee.
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"That all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free".
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They had the most significant number of casualties in the entire war and were described as the "war's turning point".
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He said that "ideals are worth dying for because it is up to them to carry on the work of those who died to protect ideals".
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Frighten Georgia's civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause.
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"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted."
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Offered Lincoln's most profound reflections on the causes and meaning of the war.
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Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union general Ulysses S. Grant.
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Actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. and fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln.