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This battle in Charleston Harbor in South Carolina was the first battle of the civil war. -
This battle is what caused the military to get involved. This is also where Thomas J Jackson got his name StoneWall Jackson. -
This is where Robert E. Lee and the confederate attacked a Union State. They were forced to withdraw and it was the bloodiest battle of the U.S civil war. After the war Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation and also began to allow African American soldiers to fight for the Union. -
The proclamation declared all enslaved people in Confederate states to be free.The Emancipation Proclamation showed a shift in Lincoln’s approach from preserving the Union getting rid of slavery and represented the First step of the Federal Government to abolish slavery. -
This war was considered to be the turning point of the civil war.This battle is also where Lee would never invade northern territory again. -
This battle gave the Union control over the Mississippi river and fulfilled a major part of the anaconda plan. -
People were being enlisted in the army if they could not pay to get out. It aggravated the people and there were tons of riots. THe riots beat any one who tried to stop them. -
In this battle Sherman and his troops destroyed rail lines, supplies, and loot. It was so that the south couldn't continue to fight. -
This battle was the battle where the confederates surrendered. After 4 years the civil war was over. -
John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. Even after the war people wanted him dead.