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Jefferson Davis comes out in favor of secession for the first time
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Lincoln gives his Cooper Institute speech against the spread of slavery.
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U.S. signs extradition treaty with Sweden.
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Lincoln is elected president on November 6th, 1860. He is a member of the political party
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South Carolina was the first of the states to sucede from the US on December 20th, 1860
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On this day Mississippi seceded from the United States to join South Carolina
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Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas follow South Carolina’s lead and secede from the Union.
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February 9, 1861
Jefferson Davis elected president of the Confederate States. -
Lincoln took office and wanted to revelve the issue between the North and the South
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Confederates began taking over Fort Sumter. It was a bloody three day battle.
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Confederates attack and are successful
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Union army/navy forces take Fort Henry on the Tennessee River
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Confederates evacuate Yorktown
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Lee takes command of Confederate army in Richmond
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Battle of Antietam was known as the bloodiest battle of the civil war
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Lincoln issues preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
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Emancipation Proclamation takes effect on this day in 1863
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Stonewall Jackson dies
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West Virginia was admitted to Union as 35th state
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Vicksburg surrenders to Grant
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Lincoln delivers Gettysburg address
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The Battle of the Wilderness in Virginia is the first of a bloody series of month-long engagements between Grant and Lee.
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Lincoln signs a bill repealing the fugitive slave laws
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Union Admiral David G. Farragut wins the Battle of Mobile Bay.
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Lincoln is reelected President, with Andrew Johnson as Vice President
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General George Henry Thomas wins the Battle of Nashville, decimating John Bell Hood's Confederate Army of Tennessee.
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Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolishes slavery throughout the United States
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Lincoln is inaugurated as President for a second term.
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On March 25, General Lee attacked General Grant's forces near Petersburg, but was defeated -- attacking and losing again on April 1. On April 2, Lee evacuated Richmond, the Confederate capital, and headed west to join with other forces.
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On April 14, as President Lincoln was watching a performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., he was shot by John Wilkes Booth, an actor from Maryland obsessed with avenging the Confederate defeat. Lincoln died the next morning.
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Jefferson Davis was captured in Georgia on May 10.