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Confederates fired at fort sumter, and it sparked the Civil War
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Lincoln ordered an invasion on Virginia in the summer 1861. Union forces clashed with confederate soldiers.
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After winning the first battle, Robert E. Lee's army went to the north, and fought the first battle on Northern Soil. The South lost and retreated back to Virginia.
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Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all people held as slaves must be freed.
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A 3 day battle in Gettysburg, in which many soldiers lost their lives, and half of the battlefield was turned into a cemetery
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The Confederate's last stronghold, where they lost to the Union.
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The New York Draft Riots were riots that occurred in New York after congress passed the draft laws of Americans going into war in 1863.
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The first official black regimen in the civil war.
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The famous speech told by Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg regarding the men who died in the battle of gettysburg, and how their death will not be in vain
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Lincoln names Grant head of the army, and Sherman is sent to 'destroy' the South while Grant goes to get Robert E. Lee. Sherman burns down a lot of the South, and loots it as well.
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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in a theater by John W. Booth, as a part of a plan by him and 3 others.
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The congress passes the 13th Amendment after the election of Lincoln, completely aboloshing slavery.
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Help for freed slaves during reconstruction era. Attempted to change society in the confederate states
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General Robert E. Lee surrenders, finally ending the Civil War in 1865.