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Timespan for The Civil War
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Abraham Lincoln ElectionThe election took place in Washington DC.
The election of 1860 was significant in that it lead to secession of eleven states and the Civil War.
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The confederacy was formed in Alabama. The Confederacy creates their own constitution that resembled the US Constitution except that it "protected and recognoized" slavery in new territories, and declared each state was "sovereign and independent"
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Location: Virginia just miles from Washington DC
Who Won : General Irvin McDowell
Significance: It was a major wake up call to the North. It ws an indication that it would be a long and bloody war which required new leadership and improved training.
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/bullrun.html
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Location: western Middle Tennesssee
Who Won: the Union
Significance: it was the first important victory for the Union and Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in the Western Theater.
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Location: Stewart County, Tennessee
Who Won: General Grant
Significance: It secured the lower reaches of both the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, opening the way for the
occupation of Nashville
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/fort-donelson.html
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Location: Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River
Who Won: General Albert Sidney Johnson
Significance: The Battle of Shiloh was a major Union Victory in the "West" It was a much needed victory
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/shiloh.html
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Location: Lookout Mountain
Who Won: Union
Significance: It was a turning point for the civil war, because it gave the Union the ability to move further down South
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/chattanooga.html
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Location: Manasas,Virginia
Who Won: Confederate
Significance: It was the last in Robert E. Lee's impressive string of victories in Summer 1862 that had brought the British close to intervening on the side of the South.
http://www.historynet.com/second-battle-of-bull-run
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Location: Maryland
Who Won: General Lee
Significance: North was able to stop Lee's first invasion of the North. Also the bloodiest day in American History.
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/antietam.html
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freedom of slaves was the attempt to free the slaves in the Southern States because the North found slavery unconstitutional. It was signed in the white house.
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Location: Fredericksburg, Virginia
Who won: General Ambrose Burnside
Significance: It ended the campaign against the Confederate Capitol of Richmond
http://americanhistory.about.com/od/civilwarbattles/p/cwbattle_fred.htm
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Location: Spotsylvania County, Virginia
Who Won: General Lee
Significance: It showed the world the genius of Lee as a commander,and repeled once again a much larger invading union army.
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/chancellorsville.html
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Location: Vicksburg, Mississippi
Who Won: Union General Ulysses Grant
Significance: It gave the Union Army complete control over the Mississippi River and cut the Confederacy in two.
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/vicksburg.html
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Location: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Who Won: North
Significance: The Union troops were able to defeat the Confederate troops that had invaded the North
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/gettysburg.html
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Location: Morris Island, South Carolina
Who Won: Confederates
Significance: It gave African Americans a chace to fight in war.
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/battery-wagner.html
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Location: City of Charleston
No one won the battle of Fort Sumter, Major Anderson surrendered. Significance: it was the start of the civil war
This battle was significant because it was the start of the Civil War.
http://www.nps.gov/abpp/battles/sc008.htm
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Location: Southeastern Tennessee, northwestern Georgia ; Catosoa County and Walker County
Who won: North
Significance: The most significant part of this battle in Chattanooga, TN was that the South needed to regain there terrain or more hope since they had none.
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/chickamauga.html
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The Gettysburg Address boosted the moral of the United States citizens in the Union during the tough times of the Civil War. It is also a new birth of freedom that would bring equality to all of American's people. It took place in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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Who Won: Union
Significance:Grant decided to disengage and continue his overland campaign towards Richmond. However, each of the successive battles that Grant met on this advance resulted in huge casualties earning Grant the nickname ‘Butcher Grant’.
http://americanhistory.about.com/od/civilwarbattles/p/cwbattle_spots.htm
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Location: Virginia
Who Won: North
Significance:It was one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War for the Union. Thousands died in a frontal assault on entrenched Confederate troops. Neither side gained an advantage from the battle.
http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/battles-of-cold-harbor
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It was significant because it showed that the South had limited means and that the North could fight a sustained war. It took place in the U.S.
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Location: virginia
Who Won: North
Significance:Sherman's march was the first movement of a large army going such a distance without an intact supply line.
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Location: Farmville, Virginia
Who Won: Ulysses S. Grant
Significance: Lee surrendered 3 days after the battle.
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/sailorscreek/maps/map.html
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The surrender meant that the war that had consumed over 600,000 young lives was finally going to end. Its located in Appomattox, Virginia.
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His assassination was significant because it caused a wave of bitterness to the North against the South in general. It was also the first assassination of a U.S. president. It showed protection of a U.S. president is not to be taken lightly. It took place in Ford's Theatre.
http://www.history.com/topics/abraham-lincoln-assassination
