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Southerner's viewed Lincoln's election as a threat to their society, culture, and lives so they decided to secede. South Carolina was the first to secede.
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Confederate forces attacked looking for supplies, but no one was killed.
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The south's 'new country' called the Confederate States of America, also known as the Confederacy, is formed.
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A short lived war in which Lincoln tried to cut off southern ports. When the south resisted, they failed.
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When the war began, the south knew they could get Europe to send some assistance. In the end, European lives were lost even though the battle was meant to be between the north and the south.
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Women would either be nurses or disguise themselves as men to fight in combat.
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The confederates started the battle, but the Union won.
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In an area near the first battle, but the Confederates won this time.
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The bloodiest one day battle in U.S. history. McClellan tried getting Lee.
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Lincoln announced that he would issue a decree freeing all enslaved persons in states still rebelling.
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Lincoln imposed military rule in Baltimore where angry mobs already attacked troops
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Lincoln commemorated the Battle of Gettysburg in a speech to the public.
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Sherman attempted to make the south surrender by showing them the horrors of war to make them back out.
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When General Lee was forced to surrender to Grant and Sheridan at Appomattox courthouse
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John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in the back of the head at Ford's Theatre.
