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November 10, 1860, General Assembly called for a Convention of the People of South Carolina to consider secession from the States. The secession convention convened in Columbia on December 17 and voted unanimously 169-0 to declare secession from the United States
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The battle was a part of the effort of the Confederacy to break the Union blockade which cut off Virginia's largest cities, Richmond and Norfolk. This battle was the first meeting in combat of ironclad warships, USS Monitor, and CSS Virginia.
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Lincoln's Inaugural Address took place on March 14th, 1861 as his oath of office to be the 16th president of the United States. The speech stated Lincoln's intended policies for his term.
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General P.G.T Bombarded Fort Sumter, starting the battle of Fort Sumter. After 34 hours of battle, Anderson surrendered Fort Sumter.
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Lincoln suspended habeas corpus between Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia to give military authorities the necessary power to silence dissenters and rebels. With this order, commanders could arrest and detain people deemed threatening to military operations.
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In the Confederate Capital City of Montgomery, Alabama, the decision was made to name the City of Richmond, Virginia as the new Capital of the Confederacy. The Confederate capital was moved to Richmond in recognition of Virginia's strategic importance.
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On July 21st, 1861, the Battle of Bull Run also known as the battle of Manassas is fought in Manassas junction, Virginia. This is the first land battle fought by the Union and Confederates for the Civil War.
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November 6, 1861, Jefferson Davis was elected president Confederate States of America. He ran unopposed and was elected to serve for a six-year term.
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The Confederates had initially wanted to bring the Union away from the river and set them towards the West. The Confederate battle lines became confused during the fighting, and Grant's men instead fell back to the northeast, in the direction of Pittsburg Landing
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On June 1st, 1862, Robert E. Lee becomes commander of the army of Northern Virginia. He is then sent into battle to defend Richmond from the Union Army
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The Battle of Antietam was fought on September 17, 1862 between Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and Union Gen. George B. McClellan. It was the bloodiest day in American history, with a total of 22,717 dead, wounded, or missing.
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Fought in Fredericksburg, Virginia, in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War. It is remembered as one of the most one-sided battles of the war with Union casualties more than twice the amount of confederates.
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Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1s, 1863 after 3 years of the civil war. This document declared that all persons held as slaves shall be free, however, it did not free all slaves.
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The Battle of Chancellorsville took place from April 30th to May 6th, 1863 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. The Confederates took a risky victory by Lee making the decision of dividing his smaller army against the Union.
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The Battle was fought from July 1st-3rd, 1863 between the Union and the eConfederates. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point due to the Union's constant loss
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This event was violent disturbances in Lower Manhattan mostly of the working-class who were angry with new laws passed by Congress that year to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War. The riots remain the largest civil and most racially charged urban disturbance in American history
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November 19, 1863, Lincoln gave his 2-minute speech addressing the trouble of the war. Many hated Lincoln for his short thought-out speech but it displayed a way of showing that the importance of war is to honor those and continue fighting.
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General Ulysses S. Grant had tried unsuccessfully to infiltrate the city. for 10 months. On April 2nd, 1865, The Union army captured Richmond Virginia signifying that the Confederates have little left to fight.
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Vicksburg was the last of the confederates strongholds on the Mississippi river which would mean the completion of the Union's Anaconda plan by capturing it. After 40 days of battle, the Confederates surrendered Vicksburg.
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The city did not fall until September 2, 1864, after a Union siege and various attempts to seize railroads and supply lines leading to Atlanta. The Capture of Atlanta boosted the spirits of the North assisting Lincoln in reelection.
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President Abraham Lincoln of the Union Party defeated the Democratic nominee former General George B. McClellan by a wide margin of 212–21 in the electoral college. McClellan Vowed to have been able to do a better job at prosecuting the Union Army than Lincoln.
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Union General William T. Sherman begins his expedition across Georgia by torching the industrial section of Atlanta and avoiding the towns. Sherman's purpose of this march was to scare townspeople into ditching the confederate cause.
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The 13th amendment was created to abolish slavery in the United States. The bill passed the Senate on April 8th, 1864, and passed the house on January 31st, 1865
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The Freedmen's Bureau act was established to help recently freed slaves become economically stable. This Act provided food, shelter, medical service, and land to freed slaves.
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During Lincoln's second inaugural address he spoke of the sadness of the war. He did not, however, attack the other side but he pointed out the mistakes and wrongfulness of both sides.
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On April 9th, 1865, Confederate general Robert E. Lee Surrenders his 28,000 troops to Commanding General Ulysses S. Grant. This Puts and end the the long, bloody Civil War
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President Abraham Lincoln and his wife Marry Todd Lincoln were at Fords Theater watching Our Old American Cousin when actor John Wilkes Booth locked himself into the presidential booth. At a laughing moment of the play Booth shot Lincoln in the head, then jumped from the booth announcing a line from Shakespear then fleaing. Lincoln died the Next Morning April, 15, 1865.
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After the 12-day search for John Wilkes Booth, he and his partner David Harold were caught in a farmhouse in Virginia by the Union. The Union lit the barn on fire, Booth was then shot by Boston Corbett.