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Abraham Lincoln won the election and the southerners threatened to leave the union because he was for abolishing slavery.
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South Carolina didn't like that Lincoln won the presidency. They didn't want to pay illegal tariffs.
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American politician who was the only president of the confederate states
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Six states met up and formed a unified government and declared themselves as the confederate states of america.
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He promised he would not initiate force to maintain the Union or interfere with slavery in the states in which it already existed.
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The first battle of the american civil war.
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35,000 Union troops marched to strike a Confederate force of 20,000 along a small river known as Bull Run. First major battle of the civil war
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The confederate used warships USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia for the first time
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The confederates launched a surprise attack on the union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant in Tennessee.
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Union forces captured the city of new Orleans.
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It was way larger than the first battle and was caused by bigger problems on the same grounds.
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Lee's confederate army attempted to invade the north's union army. One of the deadliest one-day battles in u.s. history.
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Abraham Lincoln passed the emancipation proclamation saying that all slaves in rebellious states are free and forever will be free.
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Civil War’s first call for black soldiers. Massachusetts did not have many African-American residents, but by the time 54th Infantry regiment headed off to training camp two weeks later more than 1,000 men had volunteered
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Horace Huntley's sub was the most successful and was transported to south Carolina to be used against the union
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The union trapped the confederate army and making them surrender after prolonged siege operations.
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The battle of Gettysburg was one of the most important battles in the civil war. Union forces won the victory.
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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 group of confederates attacked the city of Lawrence
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A speech given by Abraham Lincoln
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Grant planned a major offensive toward the Confederate known as the Overland Campaign. His primary goal was to engage Robert E. Lee’s famed Army of Northern Virginia and keep it under pressure
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Union forces wanted to neutralize the important rail and supply hub, defeated Confederate forces defending the city
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Abraham won the election against democrat George B. McClellan.
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Sherman destroyed farms and railroads, burned storehouses, and fed his army off the land.
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The Union Army, Navy and Marine Corps against Fort Fisher, south of Wilmington, North Carolina
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Abraham Lincoln delivered is 2nd speech during his 2nd term near the end of the civil war
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Union Army captured and destroyed the Confederate arsenal, a building where weapons were made and stored, in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
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The last battle of the civil war. Only lasted a few hours.
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While watching a play in the theater someone came a shot Lincoln in the back of the head in Washington D.C
