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first shot fired at fort sumter. this is in charleston, south carolina. many people thought that this would be a short glorious war because the north had many advatages over the south. some are more people, more factories, more food production, and better railroads
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within five weeks three more states secedes from the union
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they were defeated at bull run by a guy named Thomas J. Jackson A.K.A " stone wall Jackson" this was only 25 miles from washington, D.C. this also was the first battle of the civil war
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17 union ships move up the mississippi to take over new orleans
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Lincoln disscuses a draft with the cabinet. this would free all slaves behind the confederate lines. this also would allow the former slave to inlist in the union army
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lincoln singed the final emancipation
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A huge turning point in the civil war. they lost more than 50,000 soldiers. this war happened in Pennsylvania
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this was a speech that president lincoln gave to rember all of the troops that died during the war
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he gets re-elected
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genral lee surendered
