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New bullet ammunition, made the reload at a faster rate, rifles were also more accurate
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John Brown raids haprers ferry, captures citizens and seizes federal armory and asernal. However his plan did not work fully and was hung.
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South Carolina Secedes from the union, this ignited other states to secede later on such as Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Lousiana and Texas.
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Confederacy is formed from the seceded states, John Davis becomes temporary president for the confederates.
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This was the first major land battle of the armies in Virginia. On July 16, 1861, the untried Union army under Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell marched from Washington against the Confederate army, which was drawn up behind Bull Run beyond Centreville.
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A battle that took place in Ghettysburg that lasted for 3 days Confederates drove Union defenders through Gettysburg to Cemetery Hill.
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13th ammendment was passed, 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.
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President Abraham Lincoln Assasinated in peterson house by John Wilkes Booth
