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former members of the Whig Party meet to establish a new party to oppose the spread of slavery into the western territories
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repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty
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the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency.
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S.C. General Assembly called for a "Convention of the People of South Carolina" to consider secession.
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seven southern states had already seceded from the nation, and civil war was imminent
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the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia.
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Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus between Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia to give military authorities the necessary power to silence dissenters and rebels
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marked the first major land battle of the American Civil War.
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Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America. He ran without opposition, and the election simply confirmed the decision that had been made by the Confederate Congress earlier in the year
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naval engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, a harbor at the mouth of the James River, notable as history's first duel between ironclad warships and the beginning of a new era of naval warfare
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early battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War
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the confederate forces were renamed the Army of Northern Virginia when Robert E. Lee assumed command
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showed that the Union could stand against the Confederate army in the Eastern theater
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Confederate soldiers were strategically placed behind a stone wall along the Sunken Road. The battle resulted in significant casualties for the Union Army.
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The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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was a major battle of the American Civil War, and the principal engagement of the Chancellorsville campaign
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The Army of the Potomac was too weak to pursue the Confederates, and Lee led his army out of the North, never to invade it again.
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With the fall of Vicksburg the control of the Mississippi River fell to the Union forces. The Confederacy could no longer get supplies across the Mississippi.
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sometimes referred to as the Manhattan draft riots and known at the time as Draft Week, were violent disturbances in Lower Manhattan
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a short speech at the close of ceremonies dedicating the battlefield cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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Union Troops Capture Atlanta. During the Civil War, the fall of Atlanta proved to be a blow from which the Confederacy never recovered
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Lincoln of the National Union Party easily defeated the Democratic nominee, former General George B. McClellan, by a wide margin of 212–21 in the electoral college, with 55% of the popular vote.
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Union General William T. Sherman begins his expedition across Georgia by torching the industrial section of Atlanta and pulling away from his supply lines.
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the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States
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Congress passed “An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees” to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.
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Confederate lines near Peters burg broke after a nine month siege. The retreat of the army left the Confederate capital of Richmond, 25 miles to the north, defenseless
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Once Virginia seceded, the Confederate government moved the capital to Richmond, the South's second largest city.
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Virginia, Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 Confederate troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War
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at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. by john wilkes booth
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Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.