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Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the U.S. on November 6, 1860 when the country was divided, and was viewed as the beginning of a the chain of events that led to the civil war. -
the Confederate states of America was formed when South Carolina seceded from the U.S., and the other southern states seceded and later they form the Confederate states of America -
Forces from the Confederate States of America attacked the United States military garrison at Fort Sumter. Less that 2 days later, the fort surrendered. -
Lincoln and his military advisors made a decision to begin a blockade along the Southern states to prevent trade between the Confederacy and other countries. -
The Battle of Bull Run was the first major land battle of the Civil War. The Battle consisted of 35,000 Union troops that marched down from Washington D.C. to a small river known as bull run where their was 20,000 Confederate troops. It ended up being a major South victory. -
The Battle of Shiloh took place in Tennese , it started when the Confederate forces launched a suprise attack on the Union. Confederates could not hold their positions so it ended up being a Union victory -
The Battle of Antietam was on of the deadliest one-day battle in US history, and after the one day of fighting it led to a Union victory, and gave Lincoln the opportunity to announce the Emancipation Proclamation -
The Emancipation proclamation was issued by Lincoln that declared all slaves in rebel states to be free -
The battle started when the Confederate army launched their second suprise attack of the war. The battle ended up a win for the Union and a huge loss for the South. The South lost 28,000 men which was a third of General Robert E. Lee army. -
A 272 speech delivered by President Lincoln at the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. -
Sherman’s March to the Sea was a movement of the Union army troops from Atlanta to the Georgia seacost while destroying confederate supplies. -
The 13 amendment to the US constitution stopped slavery, and involuntary servitude over the country -
In Lincolns Second Inaugural he acknowledges slavery as a real cause of the ongoing war, and laments the suffering caused by war. -
The Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to the Union general Ulysses S, Grant near the Appomattox Court House -
Lincoln was at a play and a man named John Wilkes Booth shot him in the head with a pistol.