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Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency and 6 south states have succeeded from the Union.
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The Confederacy was originally formed by seven secessionist slave-holding states, South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas and in the Lower South region of the United States whose regional economy was mostly dependent upon agriculture, particularly cotton, and a plantation system that relied upon the labor of African-American slaves.
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Jefferson Finis Davis, the first and only President of the Confederate States of America, was a planter, politician and soldier.
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The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army that started the American Civil War
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Union and Confederate armies clashed near Manassas Junction, Virginia, in the first major land battle of the American Civil War and giving the Confederates a victory.
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The Army of the Potomac, under the command of Maj. Gen. George McClellan, mounted a series of powerful assaults against General Robert E. Lee’s forces along Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland with Confederates having less losses then Union.
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the freedom of slaves in the ten Confederate states still in rebellion and it also decreed that freed slaves could be enlisted in the Union Army, thereby increasing the Union's available manpower.
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Gettysburg is the costliest land battle of the American Civil War and was the turning point victory for the Union.
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Union forces had complete control of the Mississippi River and had in effect cut the Confederacy and confederate forces in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas were now isolated from the rest of the South.
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Union General William T. Sherman led some 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia and the purpose of this “March to the Sea” was to frighten Georgia's civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause.
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An agency of the United States Department of War to "direct such issues of provisions, clothing, and fuel, as he may deem needful for the immediate and temporary shelter and supply of destitute and suffering refugees and freedmen and their wives and children.
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The surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia and confederates best leader Lee.
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Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
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Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction and was passed by congress on January 31st 1865.
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The first United States federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law.
