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Raised tariff rates to increase revenue and protect American manufacturers
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- In the harbor of CHarleston, South Carolina
- Cut off from bital supplies and reinforecements by southern control of the harbor
- Lincoln annouced he was sending food to the smaller federal garrison - Gave South Carolina the choice of permitting the for to hold out or to open fire
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30,000 federal troops marched from D.C. to attack Confederate forces near Virginia
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Destroyed wooden sailing ships to revolutionize the future of naval warfare
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Promoted settlement of the Great Plains by offereing pracels of 160 acres of public land free
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Authorized the building of a transcontentinental railroad over a northern route in order to link the economies of California and the western territories with the eastern states
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Encouraged states to use the sale of federal land grants to maintain agricultural and technical colleges
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Lee strikes quickly at Pope's army in Northern Virginia.
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Battle in Maryland that ended Lee's first invasion of the North. Bloodest day in the war
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Free all the slaves in the states
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General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac (commanded by Major General Ambrose Burnside)
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The right to not be held in prision without being first held with a crime, Lincoln suspended this
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Pennsylvania, ended in Union victory. Last offensive attack from South
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Mississippi - Vicksburg surrender to Grant. Mississippi River = under Union Control
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Led by General William Tecumseh Sherman. Led 100,000 men on a campaign for deconstruction, they destroyed everything they saw.
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Abolished slavery. Ratified Decembe 6, 1865
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Final engagement of the Confederate States Army. Lee's army surrendered to the Union Army