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Tensions between the Noth and South are high. Indiana is right in the middle.
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Evansville becomes Indiana's second largest city.
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Abraham Lincoln Elected President.
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South Carolina is the first state to secede from the United Sates of America.
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Seven states are seceded from the United States of America, South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas.
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Abraham Lincoln sworn in as President.
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Confederate States of America is formed.
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The Civil War started when Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, a Union fort in South Carolina.
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Hoosier soldiers first go into battle at Phillippi, Virginia.
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Hosier soldiers fought to capture Fort Donelson in Tennessee.
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President Lincoln issued a statement. It said that of January 1, 1863 an Emancipation Proclimation would go into effect.
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John Hunt Morgan, a Confederate general, disobeyed orders. He led about two thousand men to southern Indiana. This was called Morgan's Raid.
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The Civil War ends when Confederate General Robert E. Lee decided to stop fighting and surrender.
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Indiana goes through many changes like its population growing. Also Indiana found new machines to farm. More people moved out to the city rather than country.
