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Lincoln took office following the 1860 presidential election, in which he won a plurality of the popular vote in a four-candidate field. Almost all of Lincoln's votes came from the Northern United States, as the Republicans held little appeal to voters in the Southern United States.
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The victory of Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 presidential election triggered cries for disunion across the slave holding South.
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Davis was unanimously elected to the provisional presidency of the Confederacy by a constitutional convention in Montgomery, Alabama
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Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Harbor.
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A naval blockade of the Confederate littoral, a thrust down the Mississippi, and the strangulation of the South by Union land and naval forces. -
The first major battle of the American Civil War. Fought in Prince William County in Virginia
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The Confederate capital was moved to Richmond in recognition of Virginia's strategic importance.
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The Battle of Hampton Roads was the first meeting of two American-made ironclads, the Merrimack and the Monitor. The Confederate, Merrimack, and the Union, Monitor, fought for control of the Hampton Roads. The battle ended in a stalemate.
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The Battle of Shiloh fought was the bloodiest battle fought during the American Civil War up to that point in the conflict. Fought on April 6-7, 1862, the two days of carnage led to around 23,000 casualties, making it the deadliest battle of the Civil War up to that point.
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Lee is given command of the Army of Northern Virginia, the main Confederate army in the eastern theater of the war. Union troops are poised at the gates of Richmond. Lee commences a series of counterattacks at the Seven Days Battle that drives the enemy away from the Confederate capital.
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Union victory at Antietam provided President Abraham Lincoln the opportunity he had wanted to announce the Emancipation Proclamation,
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This was a massive win for the confederate. The Union Army of the Potomac suffered more than 12,500 casualties. Lee's Confederate army counted approximately 6,000 losses
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The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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Gettysburg ended Confederate general Robert E. Lee's ambitious second quest to invade the North and bring the Civil War to a end.
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The draft riots were complex — anti-Black, anti-rich, anti-Republican. From an assault on draft headquarters, the rioters went on to attacks on wealthy homes, then to the murder of African Americans. They marched through the streets, forcing factories to close, recruiting more members of the mob.
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After over eight hours of fighting, Union forces were forced to end their attempt to capture Fort Wagner. The confederates later abandoned the fort.
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Robert E. Lee made a risky decision to fight numbers twice his size. This was a huge victory for the Confederacy.
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The war can never be brought to a close until that key is in our pocket.” The Vicksburg Campaign began in 1862 and ended with the Confederate surrender
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Habeas corpus doesn't allow the government to throw someone in jail unlawfully. Taking this away allows the government to throw someone in jail without telling them why.
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The main message of the Gettysburg Address is that ideals are worth dying for and that it is up to the living to carry on the work of those who died to protect ideals
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Lincoln and other leaders realized amending the Constitution was the only way to officially end slavery. The 13th Amendment forever abolished slavery as an institution in all U.S. states and territories. -
Confederate troops had rallied their strength and begun to fire rifles and artillery down into the crater, killing hundreds of the trapped men. Union reinforcements also came under intense fire until all withdrew. The successful detonation had created a death trap -
Atlanta was a major strategic city for the Confederacy that served as a railroad terminus, supply depot, and manufacturing hub. Given Atlanta's position south of the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, capturing the city would severely threaten the stability of the Confederacy.
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Near the end of the American Civil War, incumbent President Abraham Lincoln of the National Union Party easily defeated the Democratic nominee, former General George B. McClellan, by a wide margin of 212–21 in the electoral college, with 55% of the popular vote.
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Union Major General William Tecumseh Sherman led troops through the Confederate state of Georgia, pillaging the countryside and destroying both military outposts and civilian properties
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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, including newly freed African Americans.
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The main point of Lincoln's second inaugural address was to claim that both the South and North had to share some of the blame for the sin of slavery.
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Richmond was important to the Union in that its capture would signal the end of the Confederacy -
Trapped by the Federals near Appomattox Court House, Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union general Ulysses S. Grant
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This was one of the last battles of the Civil War. Lee would rather surrender than destroy his army and sacrifice the lives of his soldiers to no purpose
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Lincoln was assassination by John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theater, while watching a play. He was killed over the topic of slavery.
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After being racked down by the US Army. He was shot in the neck and killed for killing Lincoln.