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South Carolina is the first to secede from the union. Lincoln's victory convinced southerners that they had lost their political voice in the national government. North had more legislative power so South thought they would abolish slavery. South thinks they are going to get out voted.
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Battle of Fort Sumter
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Major wake up call for the north. Both sides realized the war was going to be longer than expected.
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One of the worst and bloodiest wars. Showed people that the war wasn;t giong to be quick and non violent.
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Executive order issued by President Lincoln that proclaimed all slaves in Confederate territory to be forever free; that is, it ordered the Army to treat as free men the slaves in ten states that were still in rebellion... Jefferson Davis OBVIOUSLY didn't listen.
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To assert the credibility of the Confederate States as a nation strong enough to carry the war into the enemy camp and win.
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There were so many deaths in Gettysburg (union= 23,000 confederacy=28,000) that after Gettysburg, General Lee never had enough men to attack the North directly again effectivly creating a military turning point of the war.
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Grant's capture of Richmond was significant because...
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Lee and Grant met in village in Virginia called Appomattox Court house. Official ending of war. Confederacy surrenders.
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Lincoln and his wife went to see a play and the doors were unguarded... John Wilkes Booth came into the balcony and shot Lincoln in the head and then escaped, breaking his leg. 12 days later, Union cavalries found Booth, trapped him in a barn, and was shot. Lincoln officially died the next morning.
