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Abraham Lincoln became president.
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President Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring freedom for enslaved people living in states under the control of the confederacy
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civil war ends when General Robert E. Lee surrenders to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia
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Abraham Lincoln is killed, five days after the civil war ended
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First transcontenintal railrroad complated at Promontory Point, Utah, providing continous railroad transportation across the entire United States
