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Confederates fire on and capture Fort Sumter, starting the Civil War
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Lincoln ordered the invasion of Virginia. The plan was to take the capitol of Richmond. The Confederates won.
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Led by General McClellan, the Union soldiers fought to prevent the Confederates from invading the Union states.
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Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, ordering all of the Confederate slaves to the right of freedom. Naturally, the slave owners did not oblige.
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A skirmish that soon turned into a full on battle between the Union and the Confederate armies. A battle of three days, the Union won.
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General Ulysses S. Grant had defeated the confederates. Won over the Mississippi
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African American men could join the Union army and fight.
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The Speech the President had made in honor of those who has died in the Civil War.
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General William Tecumseh Sherman led Union troops to destroy the South.
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Lincoln urged Congress to pass the 13th Amendment to end slavery in the US.
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General Lee and Grant agreed to meet up and claim an end to the war.
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Shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth, the former President was a part of the planned murder by angry Southerners.
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Congress was not satisfied with the way the South was responding to the passed laws/Amendments, so they passed the 14th Amendment. This Amendment made it possible to include blacks into American citizenship.
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Since the South had been trying to avoid the Amendments passed, Congress passed the 15th Amendment. This allowed blacks to vote.
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A man sat on the "white only" part of a train, and was arrested. The case was taken to the Supreme Court where segregation was later ruled, "constitutional."
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In 1876, Hayes was elected President. He later withdrew troops from the South, ending Reconstruction.