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Former members of the Whig Party meet to establish a new party to oppose the spread of slavery into the western territories -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise -
This demonstrated the division within the United States just before the Civil War. -
The secession convention convened in Columbia on December 17 and voted unanimously, 169-0, to declare secession from the United States. -
Four years of a terrible national crisis, Lincoln uses his Second Inaugural to gently, but clearly, call out slavery as the reason for the war. -
This marked the official beginning of the American Civil War. -
Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus between Washington D.C., and Philadelphia to give military authorities the necessary power to silence dissenters and rebels -
The First Battle o Bull Run, marked the first major land battle of the American Civil War. -
Presided over the South's creation of its own armed forces and acquisition of weapons -
This was history's first duel between ironclad warships and the beginning of a new ear of naval warfare -
This was a crucial victory for the Union during the Civil War -
The confederate forces were on command in a battle to defend the city of Richmond from Union forces. -
This showed that the Union could stand against the Confederate army in the Eastern theater. -
This was one of the largest and deadliest battles of the Civil War. -
The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves", within the rebellious states, "are, and henceforward shall be free" -
This was a huge victory for the Confederacy and General Robert E. Lee during the Civil War. -
It stopped the Confederate momentum in the Eastern Theater and it probably killed any chance of Europe intervening -
General John C. Bremerton surrenders to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Vicksburg Mississippi. -
This was when the anger of working-class New Yorkers over a new federal draft law during the Civil War -
President Abraham Lincoln delivered a short speech at the close of ceremonies dedication the battlefield cemetery at Gettysburg, PA -
During the Civil War, the fall of Atlanta proved to be a blow from which the Confederacy never recovered -
Near the end of the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln easily defeated the Democratic nominee. (212-21) -
Union General William T. Sherman begins his expedition across Georgia by torching the industrial section Atlanta and pulling away from his supply lines. -
The 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States -
This is when the Congress passed "An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees" to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners. -
This was when Confederate lines near Petersburg broke after a none month siege. The retreat of the army left the Confederate capital of Richmond, 25 miles to the north, defenseless -
This was once Virginia seceded, the Confederate government moved the capital to Richmond -
A famous actor killed Lincoln while he was watching a play in a press box. -
HA tip led the Union soldiers back to the Garrett farm, where they discovered Booth and Harold in the barn. His last words were, "useless, useless." -
Virginia, Robert E. Lee surrenders him 28,000 Confederate troops to Union General Ulysses S.Grant.