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The 19th presidential election. It ended with Abraham Lincoln winning. It was heavily based on the politics of slavery.
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South Carolina became the first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the United States.
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Representatives from the six seceded states met in Montgomery, Alabama, to formally establish a unified government, which they named the Confederate States of America.
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Was an attack during the American Civil War by the Quantrill's Raiders, a Confederate guerilla group led by William Quantrill, on the Unionist town of Lawrence, Kansas.
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Lincolns inauguration was a widely controversial one, as he was "against" slavery. Part of his taking of the oath of office for his first term as the sixteenth President
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The bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War.
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This was fought on July 21, 1861 in Prince William County, Virginia, just north of the city of Manassas and about 25 miles west-southwest of Washington, D.C.
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Jefferson was elected on a 6-year term as the first permanent President of the Confederate States
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it was the first meeting in combat of ironclad warships, i.e., the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia.
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A battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee
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Union forces seeking to capture the city during the American Civil War. The permanent loss of New Orleans was considered one of the worst disasters suffered by the Confederacy in the western theatre of the war.
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It was a stunning Confederate victory over the Union Army of Virginia. Over 20,000 men fell as casualties at this fight.
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The eighth-costliest land battle of the American Civil War (22,717 casualties). A heavy battle between the Confederates and the Union.
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Granted freedom to the slaves in the Confederate States if the States did not return to the Union by January 1, 1863. In addition, under this proclamation, freedom would only come to the slaves if the Union won the war.
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The final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. (Union victorious)
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The unit was the first African-American regiment organized in the northern states during the Civil War.
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The most important engagement of the American Civil War. After a great victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville, General Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania in late June 1863.
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Violent disturbances in Lower Manhattan, widely regarded as the culmination of working-class discontent with new laws passed by Congress that year to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War.
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A speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, and one of the best-known speeches in American history. It is best known for its outright voice in being against slavery.
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The Atlanta Campaign was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta during the summer of 1864.
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The hand-cranked Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley torpedoed the mighty USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor (no real effect on war).
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The first battle of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War.
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A very important victory for the Union. Took over very important Southern Land.
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Although Lincoln was hated across almost half of America, he won a second term which surprised many, even some of his own voters.
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Another successful win for the Union army. This was an important win as it was near the end of the war.
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Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address was delivered on March 4, 1865, during the final days of the Civil War and only a month before he was assassinated.
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The Union Army captured and destroyed the Confederate arsenal, a building where weapons were made and stored, in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
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Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War in favor of the Union.
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The 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth right after the end of the Civil War.
