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This was the overthrowing and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War. following declarations of secession by seven Southern states.
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Bill passed by Lincoln which stated "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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One of the most notorious battles in the Civil War which the Union lost.
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One of the finalizing battles of the War where the Confederate Army was defeated by the Union Army.
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Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth in the Ford Theatre.
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Abolished slavery in the United States
