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Lincoln makes a speech at cooper union in the city of New York that broadened his chances of becoming president
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Lincoln is selected as the republican canidate at the chicago convention
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Slavery in the south has hit its hightest numbers during the 1860s
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Lincoln is elected president. He won 180 electoral votes
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South Carolina becomes the first state to succeed from the union
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Lincoln states it isnt legal for slavery to exist in the south
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Mississippi becomes the second state to succeed, after they follow in South Carolina's steeps other states in the south do the same
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Lincoln is now offically in office
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Opening set of the civil war
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Grant wins first battle for US by capturing Fort Henrey in Tenesse
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Lincoln was not satisfied with McMlellans decision making and accusing him of having the slows and fires him.
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Bloody battle but a union win for general Grant
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Bloodiest day long battle of the civil war, thousands killed and wounded.
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Lincoln signs Emancipation Proclamtion making slavery in the south illegal.
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Stonewall Jackson is killed in battle at Chancellorsville
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Long 2 month battle ending with a glorious union victory.
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Turning point of the Civil War. Big union win
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President Lincoln proclaims a national Thanksgiving day to be celebrated the final Thursday in November in the United States.
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Union forces pushed Confederate troops away from Chattanooga. Win for Sherman
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The war is coming to a close and grant has shown to be a strong leader through all of it so Lincoln puts him in charge
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The New York World and the New York Journal of Commerce publish a fake proclamation that President Abraham Lincoln has issued a draft of 400,000 more soldiers.
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Shermans drives through atlanta and many other southern states until he reaches the sea burning everything in his way.
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Lincoln has shown to be a strong leader and great president for our country and is re-elected
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Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated for a second term; Andrew Johnson becomes Vice President.
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The Congress of the Confederate States of America adjourns for the last time.
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Lee surenders to Grant ending the Civil War.
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Lincoln is assasinated by John Wiles Booth at fords theatre
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The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is declared ratified by three-quarters of the states.
