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Abraham LIncoln became the 16th President of the United States on March 4th 1861. Immediately after this happened most of the southern states receeded. A few didn't like Kentucky.
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Fort Sumter was the batte that started the CIvil War. Fort Sumter is located near Charleston, South Carolina. Even though this event started the war only two people died.
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This battle also known as the First Manassas and is also the first major battle of the Civil War. The Confederates won
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The USS San Jacinto intercepted a British ship the RMS Trent. They removed two confederate dimplomats James Mason an John Slidell.
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This Union drove the Confederates to Arkansas. It made sure that the Union had control over Miss
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It lasted two days . The first day the Confederates seemed as though they were going to win. But, in the end The Union won and Ulysses S. Grant recieved great praise for this.
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It was a huge victory for the Union because it cut off the trading ports. It clearly gave the Union the upper hand because New Orleans was the biggest Confederate city.
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This battle obvoiusly lasted 7 days from June 25th to July 1st. It was a Confederate victory and it boosted morale for the whole army.
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This is the Civil Wars bloodest over 23,000 casualties happened just on this one day. The Union came out to be the victors under George B. Mclellan.
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It was a law passed by President Lincoln saying that any slaves in the rebellion states. They could just leave and thats actually what some slaves did.
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This campaign is one of the major campaigns of teh whole Civil War. It lasted until May 6th it is also known as Lee "perfect Battle"because with his large army he easlily defeated the Union.
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The Union gained control of one of the last major sections of the Mississippi River that the Confederates had. So it helped the Union out immensely. Also, it lasted until July 4th but no one celebrated.
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This battle is referred to as the turning point of the CIvil War. It had the most casualties of the whole war with it is estimated that between 46,000 and 51,000 soldiers died from July 1st to the 3rd.
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Easily one of the most well known speeches in U.S. history. It was given by President Abraham Lincoln after the dedication of the dead soldiers in Gettysburg.
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This was a necessary campaign because it got Grant the ability to move into Virginia. But he had heavy losses and inflicted more.
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Major General William Tecumseh Sherman and his soldiers travel from Atlanta to Savannah and take the city over. It does severe damage to their industry.
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The Union needed to capture Atlanta to take over the railroads and supply lines. They did this succecessfully and was all over the Nothern newspapers.
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It was one of the last battles of teh CIvil War. They fought in the morning when Robert E. Lee realized that he was massively outnumbered and had to surrender.
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It happened on Good Friday 5 days after Robert E. Lee surrenderd to Ulysses S. Grant. John Wilkes Booth and a few others were the conspirators of the assassination.
