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Abraham Licoln is elected as president representing the republican party.
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The events happenning in and before he war.
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The Confederacy is founded by seven of the seceding states; South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas.
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The Confederacy attack the American Unions Ford Sumter. This was the first battle of the war. The Fort surrendered to The Confederacy.
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The Confederate army won the battle over the American Union's army.
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On September 17, Confederate forces were caught by General McClellan. This battle proved to be the bloodiest day of the war; 2,108 Union soldiers were killed and 2,700 Confederates were killed. The battle had no clear winner,
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Abraham Lincoln and the american union declared that all slaves in the confederacys areas were free, in the goverments eyes.
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The Gettysburg Address is a speach given by Abraham Lincoln after the Battle of Gettysburg. In the speach Abraham stressed the human rights and called the civil war a war for a union.
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Transportation problems and successful blockades caused severe shortages of food and supplies in the South. Starving soldiers began to dthe comfedrate forces.
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After the battle where The conferderate army had to surrender to the unions army.
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President Lincoln was watching a performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., he was shot by John Wilkes Booth, an actor from Maryland obsessed with avenging the Confederate defeat. Lincoln died the next morning. Booth escaped to Virginia. Eleven days later, Booth was killed by a union soldier