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This election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860, and served as the immediate effect for the outbreak of the American Civil War.
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After Lincoln got elected, South Carolina seceded from the United States with other states following. This triggered fight between both sides.
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The First Battle of Fort Sumter was on April 12, 1861, when Confederates fired on the Union fort. These were the first shots of the war.
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It was the first major battle of the American Civil War. It was a confederate victory.
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History’s first duel between ironclad warships and the beginning of a new era of naval warfare.
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Battle in the Civil war fought in Tennessee. It was a Union Victory.
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It was the first battle in the Civil War to take place on Union soil and is the bloodiest single-day battle in American history
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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. The proclamation declared that all slaves within the rebellious states are free.
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Reconstruction refers to the period following the Civil War of rebuilding the United States. It was a time of great pain and endless questions.
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This battle which was a Union victory gave the North control of the Mississippi river and divided the Confederacy in 2.
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The Battle of Gettysburg was the largest battle of the American Civil War as well as the largest battle ever fought in North America
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The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, one of the best-known in American history.
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Sherman's March to the Sea was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army.
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It was the final engagement of Confederate Army general Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on Good Friday while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., as the American Civil War was drawing to a close.