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Lincoln is elected president. He was the first Republican president that opposed slavery.
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This was the first state to secede from US.
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The states that had seceded met to form a single government, known as the Confederate States of America
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Confederate troops fired first in South Carolina.
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Lincoln put the Emancipation Proclamation into effect, making all slaves in northern states free.
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Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in the Ford Theater.
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The trans-Mississippi confederate troops surrender, ending the Civil War.
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