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The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army
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This battle was fought in Prince William county, Virginia. It was the first major battle of the Civil War.
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The union won this battle. This was the bloodiest of the civil war.
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This proclamation was an executive order by Abraham Lincoln.
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One if the most important engagement of the American Civil War.
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After defeating a Confederate force, Grant turned back to Vicksburg. He defeated a force under General John C. Pemberton.
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Violent disturbances in Manhattan.
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One if the first official black units in the U.S. armed forces.
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It was a speech by Abraham Lincoln.
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The 13th Amendment abolished slavery.
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A military campaign of the American Civil War.
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President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill creating the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. This federal agency oversaw the hard change of African Americans from slavery to freedom.
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One of the last battles of the Civil War.
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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the play in Washington, D.C.
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The 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.
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The Fifteenth Amendment forbids the federal and state governments from denying a citizens the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude
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The Reconstruction era was the period from 1863 to 1877
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Plessy v. Ferguson was a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court issued in 1896. It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality