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The Pemberton mill in Lawrence Massachusetts and kills 145 workers.
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Grant Attacks for Donelson and conqors it in a day.
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Twenty thousand New England show workers strike and win higher wages
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80 to 250 Wiyot Indians were killed on indian Island
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Lincoln delivered a speech at cooper union in NYC.
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While campaigning Abraham Lincoln made a speech to defend the right to strike
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Overland mail has started going between California and missouri.
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Lincoln defeats Douglas, Breckinridge, and Bell in the presidency.
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Major Robert Anderson reports fort Sumter in charleston.
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It was a last-second effort to stop the south from seceding.
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South Carolina secedes from the north and is the first to do so.
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Mississippi secedes from the union and is the second state to do so.
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Florida is the thrid state to secede from the union.
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Alabama is the fourth state to secede and secedes a day after Florida.
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Georgia is the fifth state to secede from the union
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Louisiana is the sixth state to leave the union.
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Texas is the seventh state to secede from the union.
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Abraham Lincoln becomes the 16th president of the United States.
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Virginia is the eighth state to secede and it takes over two months since Texas seceded for them to decide.
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Arkansas secedes after Virginia and is the ninth to go.
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North Carolina is the tenth state to secede from the union and join the confederacy.
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The confederate states of America were formed.
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Tennessee is the last state to secede from the union.
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The USS Monitor is the first US ironclad warship to be launched.
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Ulyssees S Grant Captures Fort Henry for the Union.
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Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the president of the Confederacy for a six year term.
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The Battle of Pea Ridge shut out the Confederates from missouri.
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The Battle of Hampton Roads was the first battle between two Iron Clad Warships.
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The Battle of Shiloh begins and after a day Grant defeats the south near Shiloh.
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A union General dies after recieving wounds at the battle of Shiloh
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In this battle both the North and South claim victory.
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The Union defeats the confederates in the bloodiest single day battle of the war.
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Richard Gatling patents his invention, the Gatling gun, which fires many shots in succession. flattening enemy lines
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Lincoln specifies ten Confederate states in which slaves shall be freed.
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The Arkansas River is captured for the Union.
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Lincoln signs the National Banking Act into law
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This Battle in North Carolina ends inconclusivly.
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Robert E. Lee leads the Confederacy to a victory at this 4 day battle with over 30,000 casualties combined with both sides.
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The North defeats the south in this battle opening the way for the siege of Vicksburg.
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30,000 Confederates surrender to the union army
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One of the most memorable and arguably the biggest battle of the Civil War.
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Lee sends a letter to Davis saying he is resigning but Davis refuses
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President Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address
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109 Union soldiers escape Confederate prison camp in Richmond.
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Lincoln Appoints Grant as the Commander in Chief of all Union armies.
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The Battle of the wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
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Arlington National Cemetary is established on the grounds of Robert E Lee's home.
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Confederates lead an unsuccessful attack on the Union troops.
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The Confederates lead a successful attack against the Union troops.
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Union Forces try to break the Confederate lines by blowing up a large bomb under their trenches.
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President Lincoln wins the 1864 election with a landslide.
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Sherman's total war death march starts.
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Sherman's march ends when he captures the port of Savannah Georgia
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The Union launches a major amphibious attack on Fort Fisher and capture it.
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Robert E Lee becomes General in Chief of the Confederate army.
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Tennessee adopts a new constitution that abolishes slavery.
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Robert E Lee begins his final assault on the Union army.
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Richmond is finally conquered by the Union troops.
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Robert E Lee surrenders to Grant.
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President Lincoln is Assassinated in Ford's Theatre.
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John Wilkes Booth is cornered by Union cavalry and shot.
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Jefferson Davis is captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia.
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The last known Confederates surrender to the Union, ending the war.
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COngress Overwhelmingly passes the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
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Johnson Believed that the Civil Rights Act of 1866 was unconstitutional so he vetoed it.
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It will house the Army Medical Museum and the war department records until 1893
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Congress really wanted to push the Civil Rights Act of 1866 so they Overrid his veto
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Congress approves the 14th amendment and it is put in the Constitution.
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Congress overrides Johnson's veto and passes the Freedman's Bureau Bill.
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Tennessee Ratifies the 14th amendment very quickly so they would not have to suffer under 2nd reconstruction.
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Grant is promoted to General of the Army which is the equivilant to a five star general today.
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The Philadelphia ship yard fire destroyed many ships used to fight in the civil war.
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South Carolina rejects the amendment on the 6th aniversary of leaving the Union.
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Blacks in D.C. have gained the right to vote after a bill was overridden by Congress.
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Federal army restores military rule in Mississippi
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Congress passes the Tenure of Office act which denies the right of the President to remove officials who had been appointed with the consent of Congress.
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Alexandria Virginia rejects thousands of black votes after the reconstruction act was passed
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General Philip Sheridan assumes command of the 5th Military district including Louisiana and Texas.
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Congress passes the 2nd reconstruction act after it was vetoed by Joshson.
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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, having refused to ratify the fourteenth amendment, were refused to join the Union
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House Select Committee on Reconstruction is appointed.
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President Andrew Johnson demands the resignation of Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War.
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Ulysses S. Grant becomes the new Secretary of War
