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Territorial organic act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.
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Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party
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Citizens went to the polls on November 8, re-electing Lincoln with 55 percent of the popular vote. He won 22 states and 212 electoral votes.
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The official secession convention met in South Carolina following the November 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln
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Confederate Capital City of Montgomery, Alabama, the decision was made to name the City of Richmond, Virginia as the new Capital of the Confederacy.
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The first major battle of the conflict. Advancing into northern Virginia, Union and Confederate troops clashed near Manassas Junction.
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He was the first and last president for the Confederates.
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First duel between ironclad warships and the beginning of a new era of naval warfare.
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The Battle of Shiloh was an early battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee.
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Confederate capital of Richmond is captured The Rebel capital of Richmond, Virginia
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Robert Edward Lee was an American Confederate general best known as a commander of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
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Fredericksburg, Virginia, in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.
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Nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states"
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It was fought from April 30 to May 6, 1863, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, near the village of Chancellorsville.
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One of the biggest battles of the war. It was held in the town of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania.
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General John C. Pemberton surrenders to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Vicksburg, Mississippi.
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The New York City draft riots, sometimes referred to as the Manhattan draft riots and known at the time as Draft Week.
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law through which a person can report an unlawful detention or imprisonment to a court and request that the court order the custodian of the person.
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The Gettysburg Address is a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War.
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Atlanta was the spiritual center of the Confederacy and its' capture was a major blow to the South.
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Sherman's March to the Sea was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia.
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Abraham Lincoln signs a bill creating the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
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Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address during his second inauguration as President of the United States.
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This signaled the start of the end of the American Civil War.
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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the Untied States Of America. He was killed in a movie theater by John Wilkes Booth.
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John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
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The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude
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