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The republican party was formed in Wisconsin of 1854 to combat the expansion of slavery. -
This act repealed the Missouri compromise and created two new territories. Proslavary and antislavary activists moved into the states to sway the vote. -
At his inaugural address he promised he would not touch the subject of slavery. -
1860 the S.C. General Assembly called for a "Convention of the People of South Carolina" to consider secession. Delegates were to be elected on December 6. The secession convention convened in Columbia on December 17 and voted unanimously, 169-0, to declare secession from the United States. -
7 southern states had already succeeded from the nation, Lincoln gently and calmly calls out slavery as the cause of the war. -
This battle ended with the surrender of the United States Army. Then beginning the American Civil War.
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The legal procedure that prevents the government from holding an individual indefinitely without cause. -
The Battle of Bull Run also known as the Battle of Mannassas, the first major land battle of the Civil War. -
Jefferson Davis is elected president of the confederate states -
Was a major Naval battle not only for the American Civil war but revolutionizing Naval battles forever.
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This battle ended with a Union Victory over the Confederacy in south western Tennessee.
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He assumed command in a battle trying to defend the city of Richmond. -
Also known as the battle of sharpsburg. This union victory provided Lincoln the chance to present the emancipation proclamation. -
The Battle of Fredericksburg occurred in Fredericksburg Virginia in the eastern theater of the Civil war
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Into the 3rd year of the Civil war, It was announced that all slaves shall be free'd -
After the surrender of Vicksburg the Confederacy is torn in two. -
It was a major win for the confederacy, even though stone wall jackson was mortally wounded in battle.
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This battle occured around the town of Gettysburg Pennsylvania.
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The working class of New York became furious over a new draft law during the civil war.
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President Lincoln gave a short speech at the end of the ceremonies dedicating the Battlefield cemetery and Gettysburg. -
General william Tecumseh Sherman lays seige to Atlanta, cutting off a main supply of the confederates supplies. -
This election was near the end of the Civil War, President lincoln was a part of the national union party/ -
Union General Sherman marches across georgia to set the state ablaze and destroy all supplies. -
Congress passing the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the U.S. -
Congress passed a act to establish a bureau of relief for freedman and refugee's -
Confederate lines break after a 9 month seige -
Jefferson Davis and his government traveled to Danville as Richmond fell to the U.S. Army. The city was the seat of the confederate government for only 8 days.
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The surrender of Robert E. Lee effectively ended the Civil War. -
President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth while attending a play at Fords Theater -
twelve days after assasinating Lincoln Booth was tracked down and killed by Union soldiers on a Farm in Virginia