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In New England there has been a strike because of lost jobs.
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Abraham Lincoln Gives his Cooper Speech to the public.
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A New Rifle has been patented
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Riders on Horseback are sent with mail to ride across the country to send mail back and forth, the name Pony Express was created and the Pony Express began.
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The new Union Party has Been created.
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The Henry Rifle was invented and was used all throughout the United States Civil War.
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First signs of aggression from the South are shown here
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Abraham Lincoln, running for the President of the United States, has been running on an anti-slavery platform, and has succeeded.
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The First Succession Convention was held in Columbia, South Caroline
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A series of amendments proposed by Senator John Crittenden of Kentucky as a (unsuccessful) last ditch effort to avert a civil war by addressing grievances of states considering secession.
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South Carolina has heard of the elected President Abraham Lincoln, and has responded by being the first state to secede from the Union.
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Mississippi becomes the second southern state to secede from the Union.
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Florida will leave the Union to join the Confederacy. They become the 3rd state to do so.
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Becomes the fourth state to secede
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Becomes Fifth State
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They are the sixth state to secede
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Seventh State to secede
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The Confederate elects Jefferson Davis as president.
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Licoln Becomes the 16th President of the United States. He represented the Republican party.
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The battle that declared the war between the North and South
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Eight State to secede from the Union
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Fort Henry is captured and taken
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Ulysses. S. Grant has captured and is victorious at Fort Donelson
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An attack that defeats somewhat of Ulysses. S Grants men.
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Using navy and ships, a battle was taken with ironclades
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Union takes over South greatest seaport located in New Orleans.
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An Act allowing people to have land for themselves
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Gen. Joseph E. Johnston withdrew his army from the Virginia Peninsula toward the Confederate capital of Richmond as Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's army pursued him.
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5,000 Federals under Gen. John Pope are defeated by 55,000 Confederates under Gen. Stonewall Jackson and Gen. James Longstreet.
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One of the worst battles in the Civil war and one of the Bloodiest.
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The Emancipation Proclamation granted freedom to the slaves in the Confederate States if the States did not return to the Union by January 1, 1863
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Grant becomes the General of the West Army.
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Union is defeated.
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Union gets a victory
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The South suffers a huge blow as Stonewall Jackson dies from his wounds
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Union people split with the Virginia state and created a new state.
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A Union victory
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Robert E Lee tried resigning because of the defeat at Gettysburg.
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A confederate defeat at trying to push the Union out of Virginia.
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Abraham Lincolns most famous speech.
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The Confederates siege Union forces but are quickly stopped by Gen. Grant of Union Army.
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Grant is now known to be the general for all Union army forces.
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The Battle of Resaca was part of the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War. The battle was waged in both Gordon and Whitfield counties, Georgia, May 13–15, 1864. It ended inconclusively with the Confederate Army retreating.
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A costly mistake by Grant results in 7,000 Union casualties in twenty minutes
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In an attempt to draw Union troops away from the ongoing siege of Petersburg and Richmond
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Atlanta is Captured by Shermans army
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Union Victory
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Lincoln is Re-Elected as President for a second term.
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Becomes a state of the Union Army
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This was the final major battle on the western front. It ended in a decisive Union victory.
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Sherman reaches Savannah, Georgia, leaving behind a 300-mile long path of destruction 60 miles wide all the way from Atlanta.
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Thirteenth Amendment is in place
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Becomes General in Chief .
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Officially becomes president for a second term.
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Lee leaves Petersburg.
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Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders his Confederate Army to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the village of Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
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Union celebrates the Confederates surrender
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Lincoln is assassinated at a playhouse.
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Johnson surrenders to Sherman in North Carolina.
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Lincoln assassinator is killed
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Union has won!
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Eventually Congress overrides the President's veto. The act states that every citizen of the Untied States is to be treated equally.
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Peace is fully restored.
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Association for all Americans to have equal rights.
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the 14th amendment of the Bill of rights is now approved.
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Now part of the Union
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Congress creates the 5 Star General and appoints Ulysses as the first General.
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The U. S. Secret Service begins an investigation into the Ku Klux Klan.
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The New Orleans Massacre of 1866 occurred on July 30, during a violent conflict as white Democrats including police and firemen attacked Republicans, most of them African American, parading outside the Mechanics Institute in New Orleans
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Texas does not approve of the 14th amendment and does now follow.
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Same as Texas, South Carolina does not accept.
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Black are now allowed to vote in D.C, which is great and a major step in equality.
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Nebraska becomes the 37th state of the United States of America.
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Congress passes the Tenure of Office Act, denying the right of the President to remove officials who had been appointed with the consent of Congress.
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Negroes are rejected to vote in Virginia.
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The Second Reconstruction Act supplemented the First Reconstruction Act
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United States has bought Alaska.
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Congress passes a bill admitting Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina into the Union. Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas.
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Congressional control over Reconstruction.
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President Andrew Johnson demands the resignation of Edwin Stanton.
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Congress decides and thinks about impeaching Johnson.
