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Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, is published. The novel sold 300,000 copies within three months
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By February 1854, anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the upper midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party. One such meeting, in Wisconsin on March 20, 1854, is generally remembered as the founding meeting of the Republican Party.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed for new territories to decide if they were a free or slave state by popular sovereignty.e
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The Dred Scott decision of 1857 put a match to the tinderbox of sectional conflict over the future of slavery and helped shape the subsequent presidential election
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Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth
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Brown and 21 of his followers attacked and occupied the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry. Their goal was to capture supplies and use them to arm a slave rebellion
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Richmond was Confederacy's most industrial city and Virginia was the largest Confederate state, so Richmond was chosen as the permanent capital for the Confederacy
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In the November 1860 election, Lincoln again faced Douglas, who represented the Northern faction of a heavily divided Democratic Party
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General Lee took over command of the Army of Northern Virginia, along with his commanders, Lt. General James Longstreet and Lt. General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.
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Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America. He ran without opposition, and the election simply confirmed the decision that had been made by the Confederate Congress earlier in the year.
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Americn Civil War begins when Confederates fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor.
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the first statewide convention on secession in the United States since North Carolina voted to secede from the Union on May 20, 1861
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Because of lol the rebellion Lincoln was allowed to suspend the writ of habeas corpus
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The First Battle of Bull Run, was the first major land battle of the American Civil War, fought on
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first meeting in combat of ironclad warships
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Battle of Shiloh was a battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April in southwestern Tennessee
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was fought on September 17, 1862, between Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac, near Sharpsburg, Maryland and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland Campaign. It was the first field army–level engagement in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War to take place on Union soil and at present remains the bloodiest day in America
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that if the rebels did not end the fighting and rejoin the Union by January 1, 1863, all slaves in the rebellious states would be free.
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Fought between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General Ambrose Burnside, as part of the American Civil War.
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The Battle of Chancellorsville was a major battle of the American Civil War, and the principal engagement of the Chancellorsville Campaign
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was a Union victory that stopped Confederate General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North.
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The Confederacy is torn in two when General John C. Pemberton surrenders to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Vicksburg, Mississippi
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With the Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil War began to be more about black freedom
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President Abraham Lincoln delivered a short speech at the end of the ceremonies dedicating the battlefield cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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The Battle of Atlanta was fought on July 22, 1864, just southeast of Atlanta, Georgia. Union forces commanded by William T. Sherman,
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In the American Civil War, incumbent President Abraham Lincoln of the National Union Party defeated the Democratic nominee, former General George B. McClellan. Lincoln's re-election ensured that he would preside over the successful conclusion of the Civil War.
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military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 until December 21, 1864
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After a long siege, Grant captured Petersburg and Richmond in early April 1865
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President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill creating the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
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Lincoln takes his oath at his second inaugural adress
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Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth
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At Appomattox, Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant,
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John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln
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the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States
